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Project co-funded by the European
Commission within the 7th Framework
Program (Grant Agreement No. 619660)
INTERACTIVE WATER SERVICES:
THE WATERNOMICS APPROACH
E. Clifford, D. Coakley, E. Curry, V. Degeler, A. Costa, T. Messervey, S.-J.
Van Andel, N. Van de Giesen, C. Kouroupetroglou, J. Mink, and S. Smit

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MOTIVATION
The Challenge
Water under stress
• Climate change
• Urbanisation
• Increased world population
• How can ICT help in securing
access to sufficient and safe
water?
The Impact of ICT
• Reduced water usage
• Reduced CO2 emissions
related to water distribution
• Increased user awareness
• Opening new business
opportunities

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• To introduce demand response and accountability principles
(water footprint) in the water sector
• 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
WATERNOMICS will provide personalised 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
WATERNOMICS OBJECTIVES

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▶ Type of project: Collaborative project
▶ Project start date: February 2014
▶ Duration: 36 months
▶ Call: FP7-ICT-2013-11
▶ Effort: 416 PM
▶ Budget: €4.287M
▶ Max EC contribution: €2.905M
▶ Grant No.: 619660
▶ Consortium: 9 partners
▶ Countries: 4
▶ SMEs: 4
▶ Pilots: 3
KEY FACTS ABOUT WATERNOMICS

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LOCATION
Municipality Corporate Public
THERMI, GREECE LINATE AIRPORT, MILIAN GALWAY, IRELAND
Domestic users and utility Corporate users School and University Users
KEYOUTCOMES
• 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.
PILOT SITES

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KEY CHALLENGES FOR WATER MGMT
• Technical: Sensor locations, measurements, communication
architecture and consequences are appropriate for district metering
• Reporting / Communication: Decide on relevant metrics and key
performance indicators to collect
• Economic / Infrastructural: Analyze costs and benefits – how
does this affect existing infrastructure (e.g. wastewater treatment)?
What is the priority listing and cutoff lines for different levels of
investment?
• Water management model: Develop new tariff structures which
building on data made available through the platform
• Management & Processes: Research methods for assigning
management responsibilities and incentives. Methods for gauging
consumer reaction to new processes and business model.
• Certifications: Methods for engaging with existing carbon credits,
ISO, or other certifications
• Savings: Specific features of WATERNOMICS platform that can
produce further savings

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ERP
BMS
FINANCE
WATER
ENERGY
WATER DATA ACROSS DIFFERENT SILOS

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• Technology and Data Interoperability
– Crosscuts engineering domains and business functions
(Facilities, accountancy, IT, HR, Environmental)
• Data scattered among different information systems
• Multiple incompatible technologies make it difficult to use
• Dynamic data, sensors, ERP, BMS, assets databases, …
– Data Silos: Cost to bring this data together is significant
• Information Granularity & Overload
– Multiple stakeholder information requirements
– Multi-level information problem (Micro- to Macro-level)
• Low-level operations, to high-level organisational KPIs
• Room-level optimizations vs. Building-level, vs. Corporate-
level, vs. City-level
KEY DATA CHALLENGES

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Water
Analysis
Model
Usage
Model
Water
Dashboards
Decision
Support
Services
Corporate
Municipality Public
Waternomics
Informa/on
Pla2orms
GENERIC WATER INFORMATION SERVICES

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KEY TECHNOLOGY
Open/Linked
Data
Internet
of
Things
Gamifica;on
Simple
UI
Seman;cs
Leak
Detec;on

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• Linked Data is a method of exposing, sharing, and connecting
data (via de-referenceable URIs) on the Web.
– Provides a Data (RDF) and Naming (URI) model for the Web
– W3C Web-based Standards
– Adaptive Ontologies
– Incremental Approach
• Resource Description Framework (RDF)
– Graph based Data – nodes and arcs
– Identifies objects (URIs)
– Interlink information (Relationships)
• Vocabularies (Ontologies)
– Provides shared understanding of a domain
– Organizes knowledge in a machine-comprehensible way
– give an exploitable meaning to the data
LINKED DATA

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ssn:Sensor
rm:Room
En:Sink
En:Dishwasher
ssn:observes
En:Water
Consumption
foaf:Person
foar:Group
foaf:memberOf
rm:Roomrm:Desk
foaf:Person
rm:occupant
rm:contains
rm:Building
rm:Floor
rm:contains
rm:contains
owl:sameAs
owl:sameAs
Human Resource
Building
Management
System
Sensor Network

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Water Management Apps
• Water dashboards
• Decision support
• water availability/forecast
Support Services
• Simplify linked data
consumption via common
services
Linked Water Data Cloud
• Rich with knowledge and
semantics about water
usage performance
Data/Meter sources
• Existing operational
legacy systems
• Adapters perform the
“RDFization” lift to the
dataspace
WATERNOMICS INFORMATION PLATFORM

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SERVICES IN ACTION
Two main application areas:
• Water analysis services
• Interactive water information services

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WATER ANALYSIS SERVICES
• Water usage prediction models
– Real-time water usage forecasting;
– Increase user awareness;
– Improve management capability;
• Hydro-meteorological drought forecasting
– Using hydrological forecasting in parallel with weather data to
better predict and prepare for drought events
• Leak detection
– Use of available data to better predict and efficiently respond to
suspected leaks (e.g. usage spikes, pressure drops)
• Pumping Equipment fault detection
– Use of real time monitoring to identify faulty operation and enable
prognostics for equipment degradation

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INTERACTIVE WATER INFORMATION SERVICES
Four water usage and management applications will be developed,
each targeted at a specific user group:
1. A dashboard will present water usage information in a
personalised manner;
2. A prediction application will inform users about expected water
availability;
3. A simulation application will support households and corporate
users in water related decision making processes
4. A WATERNOMICS game individual households can see and
compare their water usage with peer groups or friends in a fun
and engaging way
The platform and applications will be used at the test-pilot sites.

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USER EXPERIENCE DESIGN - DOMESTIC

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QUESTIONS?
E. Clifford, D. Coakley, E. Curry, V. Degeler, A. Costa, T. Messervey, S.-J. Van
Andel, N. Van de Giesen, C. Kouroupetroglou, J. Mink, and S. Smit, “Interactive
Water Services: The Waternomics Approach,” in 16th International
Conference Water Distribution Systems Analysis (WSDA 2014)
Thank You.
Questions?
ed.curry@deri.org
www.waternomics.eu
@WATERNOMICS_EU