How the City of Morro Bay Modernized Its Water Infrastructure With InfluxDB
Session Date: May 27, 2025
Time: 8:00am (PT) | 3:00pm (GMT)
The City of Morro Bay, a small coastal community in California, has transformed its water and wastewater infrastructure by leveraging InfluxDB. From a 1960s-era treatment plant with no automation to a state-of-the-art facility streaming real-time metrics from multiple sites, this city exemplifies how municipalities can modernize with open source technologies.
Join us for a live discussion with Operational Technology Specialist Grant Chase, who spearheaded the city’s data initiative, to hear how they scaled from zero automation to full industrial observability.
In this webinar, you’ll learn:
- How the City of Morro Bay started from scratch and built their own data pipeline using Python and InfluxDB OSS.
- Why the city chose a self-hosted, open source architecture to meet stringent security requirements.
- How they scaled from a two-metric setup to ingesting hundreds of metrics per second across multiple facilities using Telegraf, MQTT, and Sparkplug B.
- How they’re using InfluxDB to track:
- Pump flows
- Line pressure
- Surge tank levels
- Valve positions
- Power fluctuations
- And more!
- How they’ve expanded their use of InfluxDB into their clean water operations, reverse osmosis efforts, and beyond.
Anais Dotis-Georgiou
Product Manager, InfluxData
Anais Dotis-Georgiou is a Developer Advocate for InfluxData with a passion for making data beautiful with the use of Data Analytics, AI, and Machine Learning. She takes the data that she collects, does a mix of research, exploration, and engineering to translate the data into something of function, value, and beauty. When she is not behind a screen, you can find her outside drawing, stretching, boarding, or chasing after a soccer ball.
Grant Chase
Operational Technology Specialist, City of Morro Bay
Grant has been instrumental in digitizing Morro Bay’s water infrastructure, from implementing custom Python scripts to competing in Grafanacon’s dashboard design contest. He brings hands-on experience in municipal automation, industrial telemetry, and self-hosted observability solutions.
