Interactive Water Services: The Waternomics Approach (WDSA 2014)

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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


•  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


▶ 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

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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


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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BMS

FINANCE

WATER

ENERGY

WATER DATA ACROSS DIFFERENT SILOS


•  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


KEY TECHNOLOGY Open/Linked Data Internet of Things

Gamifica;on

Simple UI

Seman;cs Leak Detec;on


•  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


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


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


SERVICES IN ACTION

Two main application areas: •  Water analysis services

•  Interactive water information services


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


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.


USER EXPERIENCE DESIGN - DOMESTIC


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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