interactive water services: the waternomics approach (wdsa 2014)
DESCRIPTION
WATERNOMICS focuses on the development of ICT as an enabling technology to manage water as a resource, increase end-user conservation awareness and affect behavioral changes. Unique aspects of WATERNOMICS include personalized feedback about end-user water consumption, the development of systematic and standards-based water resource management systems, new sensor hardware developments, and the introduction of forecasting and fault detection diagnosis to the analysis of water consumption data. These services will be bundled into the WATERNOMICS Water Information Services Platform. This paper presents the overall architectural approach to WATERNOMICS and details the potential interactive services possible based on this novel platform.TRANSCRIPT
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Project co-funded by the European Commission within the 7th Framework Program (Grant Agreement No. 619660)
INTERACTIVE WATER SERVICES: THE WATERNOMICS APPROACH
E. Clifford, D. Coakley, E. Curry, V. Degeler, A. Costa, T. Messervey, S.-J. Van Andel, N. Van de Giesen, C. Kouroupetroglou, J. Mink, and S. Smit
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MOTIVATION
The Challenge
Water under stress • Climate change
• Urbanisation
• Increased world population
• How can ICT help in securing access to sufficient and safe water?
The Impact of ICT • Reduced water usage
• Reduced CO2 emissions related to water distribution
• Increased user awareness
• Opening new business opportunities
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• To introduce demand response and accountability principles (water footprint) in the water sector
• To engage consumers in new interactive and personalized ways that bring water efficiency to the forefront and leads to changes in water behaviours
• To empower corporate decision makers and municipal area managers with a water information platform together with relevant tools and methodologies to enact ICT-enabled water management programs
• To promote ICT enabled water awareness using airports and water utilities as pilot examples
• To make possible new water pricing options and policy actions by combining water availability and consumption data
WATERNOMICS will provide personalised and actionable information on water consumption and water availability to individual households, companies and cities in an intuitive & effective manner at relevant time-scales for decision making
WATERNOMICS OBJECTIVES
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▶ Type of project: Collaborative project ▶ Project start date: February 2014 ▶ Duration: 36 months ▶ Call: FP7-ICT-2013-11 ▶ Effort: 416 PM ▶ Budget: €4.287M ▶ Max EC contribution: €2.905M ▶ Grant No.: 619660 ▶ Consortium: 9 partners ▶ Countries: 4 ▶ SMEs: 4 ▶ Pilots: 3
KEY FACTS ABOUT WATERNOMICS
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Municipality Corporate Public
THERMI, GREECE LINATE AIRPORT, MILIAN GALWAY, IRELAND
Domestic users and utility Corporate users School and University Users
KEY O
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• Identify, inform and gain consent of user-base;
• Detail assessment metrics; • Link the Waternomics
Platform to the Utility database;
• Gain feedback on feasibility and efficiency of flexible tariffing;
• Feedback from utilities and consumers on: personalised interaction with the system and ease of data accessibility;
• Evaluate efficacy of system in raising user awareness of water consumption, and changes in consumer behaviour.
• Technical – sensor locations, data and communication architecture;
• Reporting – relevant KPI’s; • Economical – Cost/Benefit
analysis; • Business Model – new services
and value proposition; • Management and processes; • Certifications; • Savings – attributable savings
based on availability of real-time water data for (i) novel business models, (ii) fault/leak detection, (iii) water network optimisation;
• Corporate image– CSR; • Public Awareness.
• Assess current SOTA metering and billing methodologies;
• Detailed monitoring of usage characteristics;
• Conduct data analysis / assessment
• Implement and test leak and fault detection strategies;
• Implement public water feedback and visualisation dashboard;
• Test gamification system and gather feedback from users.
PILOT SITES
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KEY CHALLENGES FOR WATER MGMT
• Technical: Sensor locations, measurements, communication architecture and consequences are appropriate for district metering
• Reporting / Communication: Decide on relevant metrics and key performance indicators to collect
• Economic / Infrastructural: Analyze costs and benefits – how does this affect existing infrastructure (e.g. wastewater treatment)? What is the priority listing and cutoff lines for different levels of investment?
• Water management model: Develop new tariff structures which building on data made available through the platform
• Management & Processes: Research methods for assigning management responsibilities and incentives. Methods for gauging consumer reaction to new processes and business model.
• Certifications: Methods for engaging with existing carbon credits, ISO, or other certifications
• Savings: Specific features of WATERNOMICS platform that can produce further savings
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ERP
BMS
FINANCE
WATER
ENERGY
WATER DATA ACROSS DIFFERENT SILOS
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• Technology and Data Interoperability
– Crosscuts engineering domains and business functions (Facilities, accountancy, IT, HR, Environmental)
• Data scattered among different information systems
• Multiple incompatible technologies make it difficult to use
• Dynamic data, sensors, ERP, BMS, assets databases, …
– Data Silos: Cost to bring this data together is significant
• Information Granularity & Overload
– Multiple stakeholder information requirements
– Multi-level information problem (Micro- to Macro-level)
• Low-level operations, to high-level organisational KPIs
• Room-level optimizations vs. Building-level, vs. Corporate-level, vs. City-level
KEY DATA CHALLENGES
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Water Analysis
Model
Usage Model Water
Dashboards
Decision Support Services
Corporate
Municipality Public
Waternomics Informa/on Pla2orms
GENERIC WATER INFORMATION SERVICES
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KEY TECHNOLOGY Open/Linked Data Internet of Things
Gamifica;on
Simple UI
Seman;cs Leak Detec;on
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• Linked Data is a method of exposing, sharing, and connecting data (via de-referenceable URIs) on the Web. – Provides a Data (RDF) and Naming (URI) model for the Web – W3C Web-based Standards – Adaptive Ontologies – Incremental Approach
• Resource Description Framework (RDF) – Graph based Data – nodes and arcs – Identifies objects (URIs) – Interlink information (Relationships)
• Vocabularies (Ontologies) – Provides shared understanding of a domain – Organizes knowledge in a machine-comprehensible way – give an exploitable meaning to the data
LINKED DATA
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ssn:Sensor rm:Room
En:Sink
En:Dishwasher
ssn:observes
En:Water Consumption
foaf:Person
foar:Group
foaf:memberOf
rm:Room rm:Desk
foaf:Person
rm:occupant
rm:contains
rm:Building
rm:Floor
rm:contains
rm:contains
owl:sameAs
owl:sameAs
Human Resource
Building Management
System
Sensor Network
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Water Management Apps • Water dashboards • Decision support • water availability/forecast Support Services • Simplify linked data
consumption via common services
Linked Water Data Cloud • Rich with knowledge and
semantics about water usage performance
Data/Meter sources • Existing operational
legacy systems • Adapters perform the
“RDFization” lift to the dataspace
WATERNOMICS INFORMATION PLATFORM
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SERVICES IN ACTION
Two main application areas: • Water analysis services
• Interactive water information services
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WATER ANALYSIS SERVICES
• Water usage prediction models – Real-time water usage forecasting;
– Increase user awareness;
– Improve management capability;
• Hydro-meteorological drought forecasting – Using hydrological forecasting in parallel with weather data to
better predict and prepare for drought events
• Leak detection – Use of available data to better predict and efficiently respond to
suspected leaks (e.g. usage spikes, pressure drops)
• Pumping Equipment fault detection – Use of real time monitoring to identify faulty operation and enable
prognostics for equipment degradation
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INTERACTIVE WATER INFORMATION SERVICES
Four water usage and management applications will be developed, each targeted at a specific user group:
1. A dashboard will present water usage information in a personalised manner;
2. A prediction application will inform users about expected water availability;
3. A simulation application will support households and corporate users in water related decision making processes
4. A WATERNOMICS game individual households can see and compare their water usage with peer groups or friends in a fun and engaging way
The platform and applications will be used at the test-pilot sites.
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USER EXPERIENCE DESIGN - DOMESTIC
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QUESTIONS?
E. Clifford, D. Coakley, E. Curry, V. Degeler, A. Costa, T. Messervey, S.-J. Van Andel, N. Van de Giesen, C. Kouroupetroglou, J. Mink, and S. Smit, “Interactive Water Services: The Waternomics Approach,” in 16th International Conference Water Distribution Systems Analysis (WSDA 2014)
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