1. ICT for Water Resource Management
Presented by Wassim Derguech

2. How can ICT help in securing access to sufficient and safe water?
The challenge
Water resources are under stress because of:
Climate change
Urbanisation
Increased world population
Resource demand
Water Scarcity
Need for resource security & supply
The question:
How can ICT help in securing access to sufficient and safe water?

3. The Water Challenge
Global energy and water demand is expected to rise 40% over the next 20 years
By 2025, 1.8 billion people will live in water scarce regions and two thirds subjected to water stress
20-40% of Europe’s water is being wasted
Water supply and sanitation is a large energy consumer.
Represents 19% of electricity and 30% of natural gas consumption in California

4. The program ICT for Water 10 projects; Timeline: 2012 – 2017;
Total budget: ~40 million euro;
Contribution EC: 29 million euro.
DAIAD
ISS-EWATUS
SmartH2O
WISDOM

5. Key facts about Waternomics
Type of project: Collaborative project
Project start date: February 2014
Duration: 36 months
Call: FP7-ICT
Effort: 416 PM
Budget: €4.287M
Max EC contribution: €2.905M
Grant No.:
Consortium: 9 partners
Countries: 4
SMEs: 4
Pilots: 3

6. Concrete Objectives
WATERNOMICS will provide personalized 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
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

7. Pilot Sites Municipality Corporate Public Thermi, Greece
Location
Municipality
Corporate
Public
Thermi, Greece
Linate Airport, Milian
Galway, Ireland
Domestic users and utility
Corporate users
School and University Users
Key Outcomes
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.

8. Project Structure Pilots Methodology Technology Business Design
WP5
Pilot and Case Studies
Exploitation,
Training
Exploitation,
Scoping
Pilots
WP6
Methodology, Platform and Analysis Refinement
Methodology
Technology
WP2
Standards-Based ICT-Enabled Water Management Systems
WP3
Waternomics Platform
WP4
Data Analysis and Diagnosis
Business Design
WP1
Exploitation, Scoping, Engaging Stakeholders and Architecture
WP7
Dissemination, Exploitation and Training
WP8
Project Management
Project Management

9. Waternomics Platform Architecture
SOFTWARE
APPLICATIONS
Water Management Apps
Water Data Analysis and Prediction
Semantic Sensor Networks and Complex Event Processing to aid Decision Making
Linking of data from different sources using Linked Data / RDF
Sensor data collection, filtering, conversion and transmission
Decision Support
Notification
Water Dashboard
Leakage Detection
SUPPORT SERVICES
Entity Management
Event Processing
Search and Query
DATA
Linked Water Dataspace
HARDWARE
Sensors Adapters

10. Architecture: Hardware layer
Sensors: Primary source of data
Adapters: Raw data collectors, Filters, Converters, Transmission Units
HARDWARE
Sensors Adapters
Raw data collector
Data Filter
Data Conversion
Data Transmission …

11. Linked Water Dataspace
Architecture: Data
DATA
Sensors Meta-Data
Weather Data
Linked Water Dataspace
Location Meta-Data
Other Open Data
Sensors Data
Heterogeneity of Data
Enrichment
Data Integration
Data Storage
Standardisation
Consuming and Publishing Open Data
Data Linking
Real-time data / events

12. Lambda Architecture for Linked Water Dataspace
Sensors
Data collectors and adapters
Open
Data
Entities
Raw events
OKFN CKAN
KAKFA Message Bus
Dataspace Catalogue
Apache Spark
Streaming
Druid
Serving Layer
JSON Query
Apps Queries
Entities
Dimensional Data
MySQL
BMS
Raw CSV
Batch

13. Linked Water Dataspace v0.1

14. Architecture: Software
APPLICATIONS
Decision Support
Water Dashboard
Notification
Leakage Detection
SUPPORT SERVICES
Entity Management
Event Processing
Search and Query
Water Usage Tracking
Leaderboards
Information Graphs
Simulations
Personalized Advices
Social Media and Social interaction
Entity Management
Contextualisation of Information
Problem Detection
Peak Reporting
Water Availability and Drought Monitoring

15. Childhood of apps (M4-M8)
Round table discussions
Interviews with stakeholders
Technical meetings at pilots
Initial ideas

16. APPs become teenagers (M7-M9)
Features list
Scenarios draft for D1.1
Paper prototypes
And 2 comic scenarios

17. APPS ENTER THEIR 20’S (M9-M11)
User tests
24 users involved
11 hours of discussions
3 languages
Many ideas tested
Some were rejected, others evolved and some new ones came up
Apps start to face reality

18. APPS IN THEIR 30’S (M10-TODAY)
All partners involved
First working prototypes
Support from Dataspace

19. A “One size fits all” solution cannot help
Key outcomes
A “One size fits all” solution cannot help
But there are many common features among user types and pilots
So, how can we serve them all?
Provide an apps marketplace to select apps you need
Suggest apps based on user’s profile
Categorize apps based on needs and a business value chain (Monitor -> Learn -> Act -> Benchmark)

20. + Key values Project website Other dissemination www.waternomics.eu
EXTERNAL
Project flyer (>500)
Waternomics Newsletter
Waternomics Magazine
“ICT4Water”-cluster Website
“ICT4Water”-cluster Newsletter
Flipboard (1598 page flips)
Twitter (78 followers)
SlideShare (117 views)
8 presentations at international events
4 papers published
9 abstracts accepted for conferences
Roundtable sessions in Greece & Italy
Reference on partner websites (SEA, R2M…)
2 interviews with magazines
INTERNAL
Shared working environment
Monthly Project Team meetings
40+ WP meetings
Published 5 Research Snippets
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