How can Smart Water increases city resilience?

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How can Smart City approaches increase city resilience?

Focus on the waterand wastewater services

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Resilience of the water and the wastewater services

What do we expect from a water service ?• Ensure availability of water and continuity of service

• Guarantee the quality of water

What do we expect from a wastewater service ?• Protect public health and environment

• Provide and alternative resource (recycled water)

Can ICT help the water services to overcome disruptions and to keep hazards from becoming disasters ?

Let’s consider• Drought and water scarcity

• Pollution and terrorist attack

• Storm and flooding

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Drought and water scarcity

The issue• Water shortages will become more severe as populations rise and

become more concentrated in the urban areas.

• Climate change could worsen the situation in some areas

• Utilities around the world will face increasing pressure to manage the resource more efficiently.

How can “Smart water” help ?• Automated meter reading to follow water consumption and data-

mining to forecast future needs

• Real time monitoring of water resources and decision support tools to manage the ressources on the short and long term

• Data mining for leak detection and sensors for precise leak localization

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Pollution and terrorist attacks

The issue:• Pollution can threaten water ressources

• Terrorism can threaten water distribution

Real time monitoring is essential for effective operation and early warning of potential issues


SensorsSensors

Real time monitoring

Modeling

Storm and flooding

The issue:• Storms can cause flooding, sewer overflow and pollution

The combination of network monitoring, weather forecast, network modeling and optimization algorithms helps to properly operate storage tanks and pumps in order to reduce combined sewer overflow


Optimization

Some thoughts…

First of all, build and maintain your assets!Smart “something” comes afterwards

Cost & efficiency?• Example for setting up a sensor network: 2,000 € for the unit,

2,500 €/unit of installation (digging, integration…), 15% of the initial price for the annual operating cost (maintenance, energy, communication, etc.). The TCO will be 6,000 €/unit over 5 years.

• Over a 1000 km network with a unit every 10 km,the annual cost is 600,000€

• Monitoring and smart water cost a lotwhen compared to the cost of the damages(events are rare and limited)

• The water service supports only part of damages(shared with insurance, NHS…)

For Veolia, the driver is not a cost nor efficiency issueit is a matter of responsibility• The regulation is also a powerful driver…


Source : http://www.lindependant.fr

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