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Technology Stocks : Year 2000 (Y2K) Embedded Systems & Infrastructure Problem
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To: John Mansfield who wrote (215)3/14/1998 4:39:00 PM
From: John Mansfield   of 618
 
UK: 'Eat and be merry but don't drink the water'

'Water companies are drawing up contingency plans to prevent supplies being hit by the date bug. Water and sewage treatment plants contain hundreds of embedded systems, controlling everything from hardware to the programmable logic controllers that supervise the plant's operations.

"We may well find that one or two plants will have problems," said Dilwyn Jones,head of business systems for Dwr Cyrmu, which is looking at running its plants manually over the date change period.

Should embedded systems fail, they could affect the quantity of water supply or the quality, said Jones. There are more than 70 parameters in European Union regulations concerning water quality.'

computerweekly.co.uk
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