Water’s future is digital. New systems, big data, software, sensors, processors, communication and control technologies are becoming more integrated.
This allows informed decisions to be made to optimize water utility operations, water regulation and city administration.
Digital technology has the potential to change the water sector and its consumers’ resilience.
The IWA Digital Water Program will aid and facilitate the journey of the water industry toward digital uptake and combination into water forces.
The program will be a gateway for water utilities to admittance knowledge on the function of digital approaches to advance ability and performance.
This program will serve water utilities in numerous methods relying on their virtual maturity:
– As a place to begin to provoke the talk on virtual water
– As a mechanism to research new thoughts to construct their very own reviews in making use of virtual solutions,
– And as a platform for percentage studies on their virtual renovation.
Why are digital water solutions important?
The quality of water-demanding situations of our day, particularly weather change, population growth, increasing urbanization, and aging and overburdened infrastructure, place significant strain on water networks.
The water industry, and particularly water utilities, seeks to adapt to meet the expanding demands of a dynamic, highly deregulated and combative environment in the context of changing weather.
In such circumstances, water utilities want to maintain key services such as safe and stable water usage, stormwater control and wastewater control.
Addressing those uncompleted and developing demanding situations calls for a metamorphosis to advance its techniques and effective competence.
Those demanding situations and their growing complication require a paradigm move to the subsequent generation of water structures past traditional water and sewerage transportation.
The improvement of recent structures is towards the history of cyber-bodily structures, digitalization and huge statistics.
Wherein software programs, sensors, processors, verbal exchange and management technology are increasing numbers integrated, to allow knowledgeable choices in an increasing number of converting complicated and unsure worlds.
What is the IWA digital water program?
The goals of the Digital Water Program are to act as a catalyst for innovation, know-how and best practices in digitalization for the water industry.
To provide a platform for sharing stories and selling management in transitioning to virtual water solutions, and to combine classes to guide the natural evolution from ‘business as usual to achieve a virtual water utility.
The Program is pushed through stop users (e.g., utilities, regulators) in addition to answering providers at the leading edge of rising technology to remedy pressing and high-priced operational troubles to supply water offerings.
Vision
The uptake and incorporation of virtual water will form resilient water utilities of the destiny that control water shrewdly, sustainably and justifiably.
Mission
The Digital Water Program will offer a platform for water services to discover and share experiences on their virtual water journey.
The Program will offer roadmaps and guidance to assist water utilities in transitioning to the subsequent technology of smart water structures and fulfill the want for stepped-forward resiliency to stable and sustainably control water assets now and in the future.
What is the use of digital water?
The cloud-based, comprehensive platform from Digital Water assists customers in understanding energy usage, modifying operations and maximizing savings.
This solution helps enterprises to spot correlations and trends, foresee problems and optimally deploy resources by gathering and analyzing enormous amounts of real-time water-related data.
Water utilities are often the top consumers of energy in communities around the country, with pumps, motors and other equipment running 24 hours a day, seven days a week.
To keep rates low, they must operate with less funding, fewer employees, and lower energy consumption.
By successfully monitoring and regulating essential loads, Digital Water enables managers to quickly obtain and evaluate significant real-time operating data.
Customers can also optimize power usage using Digital Water’s solutions, which enable the real-time view of energy demand for sub-metered components and empower operators to load-shed/shift/shape during peak demand periods.
The digital water-enabling technologies
Numerous digital solutions are part of a utility and numerous technology companies and start-ups help with their design, implementation and operation.
Many of these solutions make use of the most recent industry developments, such as enhanced sensors, data analytics, blockchain integration and artificial intelligence.
Sensors, remote sensing, geographic information systems (GIS) technology and visualization tools are becoming critical components of water resource management at the service area, watershed and regional levels.
Water quality, flows, pressures, and water levels, among other factors, are being measured using new and updated sensors, both fixed and mobile.
Furthermore, smart meters track client water consumption, offering a clear picture of water consumption and communicating data to both the consumer and the utility, enabling better water management.
On the other hand, Machine learning and artificial intelligence (AI) are used to process sensing and data from other technologies and optimize the workforce and meet client expectations.
AI technology can recognize patterns in data and “learn” over time, upgrading algorithms in response to new information.
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