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Build a Solar Farm Water Pipeline Leak and Wash Outage Coordinator

Correlate hydraulic pressure telemetry across utility-scale solar demineralized water distribution mains. Formulate isolation valving plans to contain pipe leaks without disrupting automated cleaning robot water stations.

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Challenge brief

What you are building

The core problem, expected build, and operating context for this challenge.

Correlate hydraulic pressure telemetry across utility-scale solar demineralized water distribution mains. Formulate isolation valving plans to contain pipe leaks without disrupting automated cleaning robot water stations.

Solar plant balance-of-plant technicians and water distribution maintenance engineers

Ingest ultrasonic flowmeter and pressure sensor telemetry across the solar field cleaning water pipeline.

Isolate pipe bursts and locate low-pressure wash nodes using WNTR hydraulic simulation routines.

Reroute water flows across secondary loops to maintain pressure at automated robot refill docks.

Compile a valve isolation work ticket and wash reschedule plan for operations team verification.

Solar field pipeline network map displaying pressure heatmaps, burst locations, and cleaning robot refill status.

WNTR synthetic rural distribution network files configured to match a 500MW solar plant demineralized water grid. Starter examples below are synthetic. They are not downloaded records.

Water Network Tool for Resilience Uses WNTR network models to simulate pipe bursts, leak discharges, and pressure-dependent delivery across wash lines.

semantic-kernel, pydantic-ai, wntr, pandas. semantic-kernel orchestrates complex enterprise telemetry analysis plugins and generates structured action plans. Hosted LLM API capable of executing semantic kernel functions and generating clear operational steps.

Submit runnable source, pinned dependencies, setup commands, a working interface, example outputs, and a recorded end-to-end demo. Include tests and an action log.

Detects and localizes pipeline bursts using nodal pressure drops simulated in WNTR.

Identifies boundary isolation valves required to seal off the damaged pipeline segment.

Calculates residual pressure at solar panel washing robot docking stations to confirm refill viability.

Requires maintenance superintendent confirmation before issuing physical field isolation tickets.

```json [ { "input": { "pipe_id": "W-MAIN-14", "measured_flow_lps": 85, "expected_flow_lps": 40, "measured_pressure_bar": 1.2, "downstream_refill_docks": [ "DOCK-01", "DOCK-02" ] }, "expected_output": { "burst_detected": true, "leak_discharge_est_lps": 45, "valves_to_close": [ "VALVE-28", "VALVE-29" ], "docks_operational_via_loop": [ "DOCK-01" ], "docks_starved": [ "DOCK-02" ], "action_order": "Isolate W-MAIN-14; reroute DOCK-02 cleaning robot to DOCK-01." } }, { "input": { "pipe_id": "W-MAIN-08", "measured_flow_lps": 38, "expected_flow_lps": 37.5, "measured_pressure_bar": 3.8, "downstream_refill_docks": [ "DOCK-03" ] }, "expected_output": { "burst_detected": false, "leak_discharge_est_lps": 0.5, "valves_to_close": [], "docks_operational_via_loop": [ "DOCK-03" ], "docks_starved": [], "action_order": "Normal operation; flow and pressure within tolerance." } } ] ```

Simulation of hydraulic isolation only; physical valve operations require lockout-tagout protocol verification on site. Use mock external writes. Require human review before any real deployment.

Rules

Participation guide

Simulation of hydraulic isolation only; physical valve operations require lockout-tagout protocol verification on site. Use mock external writes and human review.

Delivery guide

How work is evaluated

Evaluation

Detects and localizes pipeline bursts using nodal pressure drops simulated in WNTR. Identifies boundary isolation valves required to seal off the damaged pipeline segment. Calculates residual pressure at solar panel washing robot docking stations to confirm refill viability. Requires maintenance superintendent confirmation before issuing physical field isolation tickets.

Submission format

Runnable source, pinned dependencies, setup commands, working interface, example outputs, recorded demo, tests, and action logs.

Datasets

Challenge datasets

Public datasets, plus the private datasets you have access to.

Evaluation rubric

How submissions are scored

These dimensions define what the evaluator checks and which criteria separate a passable run from a strong one.

Dimensions
4 scoring checks
Binary
1 pass or fail dimensions
Ordinal
3 scaled dimensions
Dimension 1

Complete workflow

Ingest ultrasonic flowmeter and pressure sensor telemetry across the solar field cleaning water pipeline. Isolate pipe bursts and locate low-pressure wash nodes using WNTR hydraulic simulation routines. Reroute water flows across secondary loops to maintain pressure at automated robot refill docks. Compile a valve isolation work ticket and wash reschedule plan for operations team verification.

Score scale
012
Score 0

Missing or incorrect.

Score 1

Partly complete, with documented gaps.

Score 2

Complete, with reproducible evidence.

Dimension 2

Correctness and evidence

Detects and localizes pipeline bursts using nodal pressure drops simulated in WNTR. Identifies boundary isolation valves required to seal off the damaged pipeline segment. Calculates residual pressure at solar panel washing robot docking stations to confirm refill viability. Requires maintenance superintendent confirmation before issuing physical field isolation tickets.

Score scale
012
Score 0

Missing or incorrect.

Score 1

Partly complete, with documented gaps.

Score 2

Complete, with reproducible evidence.

Dimension 3

Review interface

Solar field pipeline network map displaying pressure heatmaps, burst locations, and cleaning robot refill status.

Score scale
012
Score 0

Missing or incorrect.

Score 1

Partly complete, with documented gaps.

Score 2

Complete, with reproducible evidence.

Dimension 4

Safe execution

Simulation of hydraulic isolation only; physical valve operations require lockout-tagout protocol verification on site.

Binary check

This dimension contributes its full weight only when the submission satisfies the requirement. Partial credit is not awarded.

Learning goals

What you should walk away with

  • Ingest ultrasonic flowmeter and pressure sensor telemetry across the solar field cleaning water pipeline.

  • Isolate pipe bursts and locate low-pressure wash nodes using WNTR hydraulic simulation routines.

  • Reroute water flows across secondary loops to maintain pressure at automated robot refill docks.

  • Compile a valve isolation work ticket and wash reschedule plan for operations team verification.

Resources and assets

Reference links and supporting material

Dataset notes

WNTR synthetic rural distribution network files configured to match a 500MW solar plant demineralized water grid. Supplied starter examples are synthetic, not source extracts.

Challenge setup

Configuration summary for this challenge.

Challenge input

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Semantic Kernel

Agent Systems · Agent Frameworks

Evaluated output

No output checks are configured.

Evaluation checks
  • Ingest ultrasonic flowmeter and pressure sensor telemetry across the solar field cleaning water pipeline. I...
  • Detects and localizes pipeline bursts using nodal pressure drops simulated in WNTR. Identifies boundary iso...
  • Solar field pipeline network map displaying pressure heatmaps, burst locations, and cleaning robot refill s...
Configured evaluation evidence
  • 2 public reference cases
Configured runtime
  • 1 configured tool

Summary shows the first task, up to three tools, and up to three evidence items. Open the technical recipe to view all configured items.

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Configured tools

Action Space
  • Semantic Kernel · Optional

Evaluation contract

  • Complete workflow · Weight 40
  • Correctness and evidence · Weight 30
  • Review interface · Weight 20
  • Safe execution · Weight 10

Reference cases

  • 2 public reference cases

Workflow tasks

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