IBM Smarter Water Keynote, IWA Montreal September 2010

© 2010 IBM Corporation

Let’s Build a Smarter Planet:Smarter Water Management

IWA World Water Congress & Exhibition, MontrealSeptember 22, 2010

Dr. Cameron Brooks – Director, Advanced Water Management, IBM Big Green Innovations

2 © 2010 IBM Corporation

Let’s build a smarter planet: IBM Smarter Water Management

Agenda

� The Opportunity

� Collaborative Innovation

� Critical Success Factors



Something profound is happening…

INSTRUMENTED

We now have the ability to measure, sense and see the exact condition of practically everything.

INTERCONNECTED

People, systems and objects can communicate

and interact with each other in entirely new ways.

INTELLIGENT

We can respond to changes quickly and accurately, and get better results

by predicting and optimizing for future events.



What does it mean to be a Smart City?

Measuring, Monitoring, Modeling and Managing

MeteringSensing

Real Time

Data Integration

Real Time

+ Historical Data

Data Modeling

+ Analytics

Visualization

+ Decisions

� Data modeling and analytics to create insights from data to feed decision support and actions

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� Comparison of historical data, with newly collected data

� Data collection

� Data Integration

Source: IBM Corporate Strategy



Intelligent systems that gather, synthesize and apply information will change the way entire industries operate.

Smart waterApply monitoring and management technologies to help optimize the availability, delivery, use, and quality of water as well as related systems including energy and chemical treatment.

Smart trafficUse real-time traffic prediction and dynamic tolling to reduce congestion and its byproducts while positively influencing related systems.

Smart energyAnalyze customer usage and provide customized products and services that help to boost efficiency from the source through the grid to the end user.

Water

Energy

Chemicals

Carbonemissions

Congestion

Publictransportation Smart home

Carbonemissions

Energysources

Energy grid

Energy

Noisepollution



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Manage Data

Analyze Patterns

Optimize Outcomes

Focus on integrated existing data sources to enable collaboration and increase innovation capacity

Leverage real-time data and new instrumentation to fill water information gaps, spot new patterns, and further increase innovation capacity

Mass application of community insights and predictive analytics to enable intelligent decision support and strategic risk management

Build an Integrated Management System

Optimize Management Across Multiple Domains

Prepare for a Smarter Systematic Approach1 2 3

Value realized



Smarter Water Management means enabling higher levels collaboration and innovation across value chains and ecosystems

NaturalWater

Sources

RawWater

Transport

CleanWaterSupply

ConsumersSewage

Treatment

Recycled/Treated

A lot more data is needed to fully understand, model and predict how water flows around this planet – from natural water sources, to how it is consumed; and what the impacts and dependencies are on other resources.

Access to this information will ensure that we don’t just fix or rebuild existing infrastructure, but to do it better and smarter .

Allowing us to become smarter in how we consume and pay for water.



Information Technology Enables

Smarter Water Management

The Smart Water Network’ - a 21st Century System

� Sensing and monitoring of physical infrastructure, integrated with proactive asset management

� Streaming data systems for critical operations, enabling rapid, real-time decision making

� IT infrastructure to manage information across multiple water organizations & constituents, enabling system-level decisions

� Advanced analytics with predictive capability and modeled decision support

� All enabling more efficient operationsand providing decision support capability



Much of Water Management is Improving Information Flow & Use

“Today’s decisions and policies will shape our water future…The effectiveness of those decisions depends on the quality of information …In addition to improved water data the United States should develop and expand …forecasting and predictive models and systems … to educate and influence water use behavior of individual[s], businesses and resource managers”

Source : NSTC, “A Strategy For Federal Science And Technology To Support Water Availability And Quality In The United States, - Report Of The National Science And Technology Council Committee On Environment And Natural Resources Subcommittee on Water Availability and Quality”, September 2007



Energy data

Geology/ hydrology

Economic

Climate

Strategic Water Information Water Management platform usage

Environment/Ecology

Quality

Quantity

Run-offLocal

governmentsLeisure industry

The publicWater Authorities

Federal agencies

Other water agencies

Agriculture

Contractors/ customers

Stakeholders (as examples)

The Environment

Public awareness

Research

Water quality management

Water allocation

Impact assessments Compliance

Habitat conservation

Water quantity/

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Land use planning

Collaborative uses (as examples)

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Sonoma County Water Agency – Collaboration Platform



Operator ChatCurrent SOP



Benefits of a “Collaboration Platform”

� Foundation of a common goal – the optimal use of water within the SCWA service area through information transparency and sharing

– Provides an information backdrop to support efforts to balance between surface and ground water supplies, conservation, and recycling for the benefit of the region

– Communication/outreach tool to the Public & stakeholders

– Provide tool to optimize or balance water supply portfolios to meet demands– Overcome organizational fragmentation – establish collaboration /

cooperation� Improved Operations - Increased utilization of data from a variety of sources

will lead to improved overall operation and planning

– SCWA, its Contractors, and other Policy makers base decisions on more complete data

– Provide tool to track overall energy requirements for water delivery and treatment

� Emergency Regional Response Portal– Coordinated regional response to flooding, seismic events, wildfires, etc.



SmartBay Natural Water System Management Solution for Galway Bay

� Real-time advanced analytics system developed in partnership with Ireland Marine Institute

� Marine research infrastructure of sensors and computational technology interconnected across Galway Bay collecting and distributing information on:

– coastal conditions– pollution levels– marine life

� Streaming real-time intelligence to allow better decision-support related to:

– Weather threats– Pollution alerts– Algal bloom prediction– Rogue waves, etc

� The monitoring services, delivered via the web and other devices, benefits tourism, fishing, aquaculture and the environment

Adapted from Smart Bay reference documentation

See video at http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=n2Xakur QCgU



Smart Bathing Water Quality Monitoring Project with Ireland EPA

� Developed in collaboration with Ireland EPA, the portal provides up to date information about bathing areas across the country.

� The map-based website, provides the latest information, supplied by local authorities, on compliance status with EU bathing water quality standards at the 131 designated bathing sites around the country.

� Anyone setting out for the beach will be able to log on and see the latest results of water quality along with details such as lifeguard availability, blue flag status, tides and weather forecast

� Bathing water quality data that is uploaded directly to the site by local authorities will be used by the EPA, to assess the overall compliance of a bathing area with EU standards,

http://www.bathingwater.ie/



River and Observatory Network for the Hudson

See video at http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=3okDzTeb4qI



Smart Water Metering: managing customer water use in areas of increasing water stress

IBM / partner install, upgrade and/or network advanced wireless meters in homes and businesses.

Meters report as frequently as every 15 minutes either via cellphone or Wimax, or less frequently via short range protocol to a drive-by reader.

IBM installs or provides as a service the main billing system, or can run the entire billing service on an outsourced basis.

Meters can provide the home or business owner with immediate data on water consumption. This is known to promote water economy.

The system as a whole provides more granular data on usage trends and can alert of immediate and longer term problems.

More accurate meters provide better information in assets to inform capital & operational investment decisions

IBM Maximo / SAP enables meter management and maintenance - meter performance and failure can be tracked remotely.



Enemalta and Water Services Corporations Building a smarter energy and water system

Business challenge: • Electricity is generated entirely by imported fossil fuel• Electrically powered desalination plants provide half if water supply. • Rising sea levels threaten Malta’s underground freshwater source.

Solution:• Internal transformation process geared towards increased efficiency and delivering affordable, secure energy while protecting environment• Nationwide smart grid and a fully integrated electricity and water system. • 250,000 interactive meters will monitor electricity usage in real time, set variable rates, and reward customers who consume less energyand water.

Benefits:� Data from the intelligent meters can be analyzed to help lower costs,

adopt efficient and sustainable consumption patterns and cut greenhouse gas emissions

� By addressing water and power issues as a system citizens can make smarter decisions about how and when they use power



Smarter Metering Project – Dubuque, Iowa

Instrumented� Dubuque replacing all water meters with smarter meters� Dubuque installing low-flow devices to batch water� 7% expected increase in revenue from accurate billing

Interconnected� All meters communicate 15 minute reads through wireless systems� Community Engagement leverages an interconnected people system

Intelligent� Dubuque wants to conserve water, avoid water wastage. Conserving water can

also help consumers lower bills that are set to go up due to new metering� IBM Research working with City, Water utility and 250 pilot residences and

providing platform for all stakeholders to process and analyze consumption.� Strategy is to leverage information, alerts and insights to encourage change in

behavior resulting in conservation and fixing of leaks� Present analysis in a simple, user-friendly form, game-based approach



Addressing Non-Revenue Water using Analytics and Optimization

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Leakage or Theft Detection at the Residential Level

Leakage Reduction using Dynamic Pressure Control

Optimal Valve Placement for Pressure Reduction

Understand usage patterns and detect anomalies for low and high consumption to detect leakage, theft or faulty meters

Create optimization model to adjust the pressure dynamically so that only the required flow will be supplied yielding cost reduction in energy and water achieved.

Find “optimal” location of leak(s) to explain difference between actual measurements and model predicted measurements

Use an optimization model to find the optimal number of valves, and their location, so as to enable the most effective pressure management

Leakage Detection at the Network Level using optimization



Non Revenue Water – Advanced Analytics

� Machine-learning based techniques to detect anomalies, analyze trends, understand behavioral models and provide usage predictions

Normal Consumption

High Consumption Anomaly

Low Consumption Anomaly

Spike Anomaly



Analytics Driven Asset Management

Demand Management

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Preventive Maintenance

Customer Service Lower Costs – Work Management

Develop analytics which can lower the cost of preventive maintenance.

Develop analytics which can improve the quality of service (uninterrupted, high

quality water) for water utility customers

Understand water usage patterns to support pricing and demand management.

Lower the operational cost of water utilities by effective crew scheduling

and optimal rolling stock use



DC Water & Sewer Authority - Failure Analysis Example: Hydrants with more than 3 leak problems in the last 3 years



Automated scheduling in a user selected zone of the city

Goal: •Number of Crews = 2•Shifts: 1 day shift per crew•Objective: Assign as many WO’s as possible to each crew, while maximizing the sum of the priority of the WO’s while meeting constraints of shift duration, lunch break & travel time.

User selected region for scheduling



Automatically generated spatially sensitive schedules – shown in blue



Weather prediction

Damage prediction

Restoration time

prediction

Resource requirement prediction

Fine scale weather prediction + Storm Impact and Response Prediction

The Problem:1. Weather causes damage and outages2. Outages require restoration 3. Restoration takes time, people, money

• Wind, rain, lightning, location and duration• Real time environmental conditions • Demographics of effected area • Impact locations, timing and response options

We build model of the situation (over location and time) covering weather observations, storm damage and related infrastructure data

= better real time and predictive management & importantly a faster recovery



Smarter Stormwater Management - Optimizing Existing System Capacity

All assets of the same type in this area highlighted in blue

Search for all assets of the Type ‘natural channel’ with condition = 3 in this area. Results are highlighted in blue

Wireless network links monitoring devices to central command center

Sewer system data can also be linked with asset & workflow tools

to manage any specific maintenance requests

Innovative technologies such as Smart Manhole Covers are used to detect sewer flow levels

Data can also drawn from more traditional SCADA/sensors systems.

High resolution weather and flooding models are used to generate accurate flood maps with specifics on impact areas

Advanced analytics and optimization engines generate recommended actions for flood avoidance

Stormwater Management Command Center

Valves, pumps or inflatable dams are controlled dynamically to balance inline sewer storage and avoid potential overflows.



Smart Levee Example – IjkDijk

• Netherlands project to understand what this “instrumented” levee will “look and feel like” as it breaks

• Multiple sensor types create a reference real-time “signature” from inside the levee, as hydraulic pressure builds up until the levee bursts (last burst was October 2008). Also tests:

– Effectiveness of different sensor types and applicability to levee management

– Applicability of numerical models

• IBM is undertaking integration, working with TNO (NL Government scientific research organization)

“Because of the increasing complexity of water management in densely built deltaic regions…a more accurate and more continuous insight into the functional quality of water management infrastructures will become increasingly important…occasional measurement and manual data processing procedures will no longer be sufficient…”Source: “The Ijkdijk” (Ijkdijk brochure)

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IBM Global Government and Education

Connected citizens contribute – and that can make many things better.

Leveraging the power of the community

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Creek Watch: Smarter Water through Citizen Science

� Exploration into using mobile devices to capture data– participatory data gathering with many users

– data provides new opportunities for analysis

• Proof of Concept– Collect simple environmental data about

waterways– Capture “citizen science” data / photos

• Location (GPS) and time - stamped

• Water level, water flow, trash

• IBM Research developing app in consultation with the California Water Board and volunteer watershed groups

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=_--6KAptDL4



IBM Corporate Citizenship: Enabling Cleaner Water & Reducing Water-Borne Disease

IBM's World Community Grid, a global network of PCs

• Helping University of Virginia (U.S.) model and predict effects of commercial development, fishing and agriculture on Chesapeake Bay

• Assisting Tsinghua University (China) develop effective & efficient water filtering for desalination and good health by simulating flow through carbon nanotubes

• Enabling Inforium Bioinformatics & FIOCRUZ-Minas (Brazil)to seek cures for schistosomiasis

The Nature Conservancy & IBM:

• Providing watershed managers with software on "Rivers for Tomorrow," a free Web site.

• Offers satellite pictures, environmental data, and analytics.

• Worldwide: starting in Brazil, then Africa, China, U.S..



Smarter River Basin Management: Water for Tomorrow Project

� Combines rich graphics and dynamic mapping capabilities

� Enables users to visualize the effects of different management scenarios on the overall health of their river basin

� Use map technologies similar to Google Earth to locate and analyze a local river basin

� Enables collaboration between colleagues working to develop sustainable water resources policies

Go to Flow



Peterborough – Sustainable City Visualization

� A way of visualizing a city’s environmental performance and harnessing information to drive understanding, collaboration and speed of change

City Recycling

River Quality

Building C02

Understanding

Urban Water Loss

Information

Data from sensors and systemsGetting Value out of Existing Data,

Creating New Meaning

Engaging and Empowering Citizens, Driving Social Change



Peterborough – Flood Risk Example



CityOne – A Smarter Planet Game

� CityOne is a city simulator that models a number of factors that are distilled into a few metrics for the player (such as Citizen Happiness, Business Climate, etc.)

� Problems in the city manifest as “events”, which in turn are addressed by applying “solutions”.

� The strategy comes from deciding which solutions have the most impact on the city (based on the city infrastructure and industry budgets).



The Challenge of a Smarter Planet

� Do you know enough, at the scale of the problem?

� Can you make sense of it?� Can you act on it?

� Do you have the collaborative relationships you need with others?

Instrumented

InterconnectedIntelligent

INNOVATION &

LEADERSHIP



We’ve only just begun touncover what is possible on a smarter planet.

The world will continue to become smaller, flatter and smarter. We are moving into the age of the globally integrated and intelligent economy, society and planet.

By systemically managing water and energy use, as well as carbon emissions, smart organizations will realize true sustainability while achieving real business benefits—driving growth at the individual, organizational and population levels.

Let’s work together to drive real progress in our world.



For more information & materials

� Smarter Water Management Thought Leadership

http://www.ibm.com/smarterplanet/water

� Smarter Water Management Solutions Home Page

http://www.ibm.com/green/water

� GIO Report on Oceans and Waterhttp://www.ibm.com/ibm/gio/water.html

� IBM Water Management Pains Summary Report

http://www-935.ibm.com/services/us/gbs/bus/pdf/ibm-water-pains-report-jan09.pdf

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