Company
A national company that provides comprehensive water and wastewater system diagnostic services to municipal agencies. This includes short and long term monitoring in sanitary, combined and storm sewers. They also provide dyed water testing, line cleaning, TV inspection, leak detection, and water auditing.

Project
Develop the next generation wastewater monitoring system that is a complete and innovative hardware and software system which reduces the cost in initial installation and maintenance. The new system relies on a component-based architecture using COM which allows new features to become available simply by adding additional components. It is structured around a Microsoft Access database where all of the parametric data from the hardware monitoring unit stores its data points for real-time analysis. From the analyzed data, engineers can determine problems or potential problems within a monitored area.

Solution
C-Sharp worked with the existing developers to stabilize the monitor system software and implement additional requirements necessary for release. We were tasked with stabilizing and enhancing the central COM object, upon which all other components relied. Its interfaces were focused on the storage and retrieval of all data types stored by the system. Once this component was complete, we created COM add-ons for the client interface which were used to manipulate the stored data. All of the components were C++ COM objects with dual interfaces for performance enhancement.

Technologies Used
We used the following technologies to solve this problem:

Microsoft Windows 95
• Microsoft Visual C++ 5.0
• Microsoft Foundation Classes (MFC)
• COM
• Microsoft Access
• Various third-party custom controls