Water AM Forum — Industry 5.0 - Your Smart Metering Future
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The document discusses Industry 5.0 and how it relates to smart water metering for the future. It focuses on creating a circular water economy that is resilient, inclusive, and achieves carbon net zero goals. Industry 5.0 aims to be human-centric and sustainable. Smart water meters are sophisticated sensors that provide real-time, seamless data to give user insights and enable actions. They are needed for network efficiency, consumption visibility, leakage detection, reduced consumption, improved customer service, accurate forecasting and monitoring/evaluation. Learning from other sectors like automotive, avionics and NASA can help advance smart metering ecosystems.
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Water AM Forum — Industry 5.0 - Your Smart Metering Future
- 1. Industry 5.0 – Your Smart Metering Future? Hugh Blake-Manson | Waugh Infrastructure Management
- 2. Water Asset Management Forum 2021 The Focus: - Future “safe water” requirements - Learning from cross over technologies - avionics, automotive and oil/gas - The smart metering example
- 3. Water Asset Management Forum 2021 Global to Local: One Water Circular Economy - resilience, inclusiveness Carbon Net Zero Safe to drink, reliable Source: https://ultimatewater.eu/results/
- 4. Water Asset Management Forum 2021 Industry 5.0 is: Human centric Sustainable Resilient Source: https://op.europa.eu/en/publication-detail
- 5. Water Asset Management Forum 2021 Other Sectors Automotive Avoinics Space (NASA) Source: https://www.google.com/logos/fnbx/ingenuity/heli_light.gif Source: https://ichef.bbci.co.uk/news/976/cpsprodpb/13734/production/_116686697_hi064383416.jpg
- 6. Water Asset Management Forum 2021 Smart Water Meters are: Sophisticated sensors Data (real time, seamless, secure) User Insight Actions (behaviour, decisions)
- 7. Water Asset Management Forum 2021 Why Do We Need Them?: Strategy Implication of Smart Metering Implications for Utility Network Efficiency Consumption visibility, network leakage visibility Higher levels of investment to fully realise benefits Reduced consumption countering increased demand, delay in CAPEX Increased data management End Use efficiency Household use reduction, users realise impact of activities Customer Service Reduce queries, rework Modelling and forecasting Accurate forecasting - patterns Monitoring & Evaluation Increased demand accuracy Source: University of Auckland (Adapted)
- 8. Water Asset Management Forum 2021 Wrap Up: Industry 5.0 Circular Water Economy Learning from other Sectors Smart Water Metering (ecosystem)
Editor's Notes
- Thankyou for joining me today. NEXT SLIDE
- Over the next half an hour, I want to bring to life, the drivers for safe water, the framework which can support its sucessful delivery, what we can learn and transfer from from other global sectors mistakes and sucesses and integrate into our one water circular economy. We will then drill down into smart water meters and consider how the drivers and systems you have heard might influence your decision on the type of smart water metering ecosystem you could implement. NEXT SLIDE
- We are part of a global community which includes an interconected environment sustained by water. The amount, distribution, timing, and quality of available water is defined by our changing climate. We strive to engineer in reliability and resilience, to meet the customers needs. Consider the water cycle – one where we know a drop of water can pass through many phases and places. We have known for some time that the water we receive back may have significantly lower quality – sufficient to result in harm to ourselves and the environment - that can’t be acceptable – can it?. The current “take, make, consume and waste” approach to utilising water is unsustainable, and I consider also significantly undervalues drinking water along with all its other quality states. To enable the change to valuing water, the developement and implementation of circular water economies is underway. At its heart this seeks to provide inclusiveness, equity and resilience for us and our environment. The components of a circular water economy are broadly a service, an input to processes, a source of energy and a carrier of nutrients and other materials. To achieve this circular water economies valid objectives, we need skilled people, specialised components and a framework including standards under which to deploy and manage the assets through their lifecycle. As we now clearly see, New Zealand is also highly exposed to obtaining specialised components and skilled people we need – we can not longer rely on “just in time” delivery as the global supply chains stutter and New Zealand is left off shipping routes. So how do we now achieve this goal of a “one water” circular economy? Adopting the principles of Industry 5.0 is one significant approach to achieving this. NEXT SLIDE
- Industry 5.0 is not a new industrial revolution that might have crept up on you by surprise. It is an EU initiative around people, wellbeing and the digital age. Industry 5.0 shifts the focus from shareholder value to stakeholder value and reinforces the role and the contribution of industry to society. The well-being of the worker is central to the production process with new technologies used to provide prosperity beyond jobs and growth while respecting the production limits of the planet. Embedded in this approach are research and innovation, specifically required to support the transition to a sustainable, human-centric and resilient industry. For a successful future one water sector to be realised, meeting the requirements of the Water Service Act, Te Mana o Te Wai , National Policy Statements and other guidance will require all the components of Industry 5.0 to align and cohesively fire. I suggest that it can and must be delivered as long as integration of national and local values occurs. This includes integration of digital technologies such as smart water metering to provide real tangible benefits. But how? And at what risk? We can learn in part from other sectors mistakes and successes, to enable less disruptive and more effective delivery of digital technologies. NEXT SLIDE
- We can learn from the experience of automotive, avionics and space (NASA) sectors, which deploy advance global technologies. In the automotive industry there are rapid advances in artificial intelligence technologies to support Driver Assisted Systems (DAS). A focus on autonomous alerting and collision avoidance is being thoroughly tested and improved – but not without some fatal events along the way. Automation in the avionics industry is advancing rapidly via the Manoeuvring Characteristics Augmentation System (MCAS). That has however proven fatal twice, with substantial loss of life through two catastrophic airplane crashes. In the space industry, NASA’s Mars Ingenuity helicopter, utilising some commonly available technologies and sophisticated proprietary algorithms, is required to operate autonomously with no terrestrial GPS systems for spatial reference. It has performed well beyond expectations. So what can we learn from these sectors failures and sucesess? Some of the key learnings we can take from these sectors’ digital journeys and apply into ours include that: - manual user intervention must be possible at any point – build in intelligent “onboard” interventions if communication line of sight is not immediately available - highly skilled, trained people are vital in sustaining and managing the complex environments that have been created. The exciting challenge for those in the water sector is to then work out how to maintain critical oversite of all of these systems and keep them humming. - simplicity in human based operation against clear definitions of what is required is vital – if humans can’t make rapid complex decisions with clarity, then the potential for more calamitous outcomes is a reality - complexity introduces more risks. Make sure that risks are “trapped” before damage occurs. Automation and digital systems can and should work continuously on a 24 hour – seven day a week basis. Future essential skills in the water sector will include delivering efficiency through automated intelligent process control. Consider what you have heard – I will now apply this to smart water metering, on a wide scale deployment. NEXT SLIDE
- Smart water meters are not longer static mechanical devices one reads a value from at the property annually. Smart meters are more than a fully sealed ultrasonic unit manufactured in Vietnam with components from China, Europe and Australia capable of measuring to one litre per hour, while sensing for leakage and pressure changes, utilising onboard algorthims. Smart meters are an integrated system including the sensors, communications, data storage, data analysis, and daily or greater customer centric mobile device based insight, enabling behavioural changes. Smart water meters are part of how we will deliver on Industry 5.0 and a circular water economy. From my brief desciption, it is clear that this is a complex system, which at an “out of the box” level appears simple. However for this ecosystem operate continuoulsy it requires skilled installation, operation and management. NEXT SLIDE
- This is a complex interconnected two way communications system, where a property owners water useage can be accessible on their phone, and they can decide, with little effort the value benefits between watering the vegetable garden and washing the dishes. There are also significant water quality benefits to be obtained through mass deployment, where the onboard pressure, vibration and temperature sensors report on the condition and performance of the network, allowing point and potentially time of failure trending to occur. This will enable a rapid transition from the current reactive maintenance responses “fit after failure” where there is comparatively greater damage, disruption and environmental harm, to a proactive “fix just before failure” approach. This would directly enable the circular water economy approach described earlier. The opportunity to gain insight into a household’s water use and health (assuming it is matched with other data) therefore has both significant benefits and risks. Risks particularly fall around customer privacy and factors such as data matching and data reliability. Data reliability vulnerabilities can be minimised through robust design, planning, installation and commissioning. My experience through three recent and ongoing smart meter deployments is that it is skilled people and resilient data communications networks determine their success or failure. Lets wrap up NEXT SLIDE
- We are always subject to change. The need to implement sustainable circular economy solutions with the finite resources we have available will continue to force the pace of this change. Other global sectors have applied their lens to Industry 5.0, and we can learn from their successes and failures. They are deploying highly complex systems `but allowing for rapid human intervention to occur which ensures safety and management of risks. When considering smart water metering, we are moving into a period of highly integrated ecosystems, where customers can make decisions and be influenced by their communities and neighbours conservation achievements – essentially allowing them to be the best at conserving water if they are motivated. Further with this ecosystem we can now predict common network failures, moving from reactive to proactive asset management. To support this, we need skilled people, and a global supply system both of which are arguably in short supply. There are plenty of challenges ahead. So - are you ready for Industry 5.0 and a circular water economy? Thanks for your time. END