SCOTTSDALE, AZ (AZFamily) — When the virtual reality headset goes on, the person wearing it is immediately transported from a business park in Scottsdale to a water treatment plant hundreds of miles away.

The VR headset is one of the tools Veolia uses to manage hundreds of water systems across the country remotely. It can help train employees or even be used to guide workers on the ground from the company’s new Hubgrade command center in Scottsdale.

“A very junior person could be sent to the site to maintain that particular pump and you can navigate it from here,” explained Balamurali Rengarajan, the chief information officer of Veolia’s municipal water contract operations in the west region.

The company also does drone surveillance and robotic inspections with an artificial intell

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