The Intelligent Urban Water Supply Testbed increases urban water supply safety, reliability, and efficiency by establishing and validating proper architectures, technologies, and business models to realize intelligent water supply operations.

1. Intelligent Urban
Water Supply Testbed

2. At-A-Glance
For public utilities, local governments and
management of critical infrastructure who
wish to streamline and improve water
supply operations,
our Intelligent Urban Water Supply
Testbed demonstrates
how IIoT can improve water delivery
processes, decrease operational costs,
protect the environment and enhance
public safety.
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3. Increases in global population puts a strain on natural resources. Water quality,
supply/demand and energy consumption are difficult to monitor and maintain due to lack
of visibility into the supply pipeline, pumping efficiency and equipment operations.
The Societal & Environmental Problem
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High demand: Dramatic urban population
growth. In China, over 50% of the
population live in urban areas.
Water scarcity: per capita availability of
water in China is 1/3 the world average.
Lower quality: 45% of the water
sources in China are below drinking
standards for all or part of the year.

4. Qinzhou city (population approx. 3.8 million) was chosen as the initial testbed
deployment site. As of late 2017 the testbed footprint has since expanded to 100
municipalities. Prior to testbed deployment, the city faced:
The Technical Problem
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Lack of visibility into Supply Operations
• Unreliable, impotable water
• Wasted water, contamination, leakage
No visibility into Physical Assets
• Unreliable pumps, vaults, pipelines
• No capacity for predictive maintenance
Inefficient Operations
• Service interruptions
• Inefficient energy consumption
• High costs
• Dissatisfied residents

5. Impact of the Problem
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Environment
Wasted natural resources.
Inefficient energy consumption.
Water quality degradation.
Business
High operational costs &
maintenance expenses.
Restricted ability for
effective urban planning.
Limited capabilities to
redirect funds to system
improvements.
Society
Public safely & health risks.
Negative effect on quality of life.
Dissatisfied residents.

6. Apply an industrial internet technology system that integrates urban water supply assets,
information systems and business processes to deliver safe, quality water to residents
with high reliability and efficiency; benefiting society, businesses and environment.
The Solution
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Enhance urban water supply delivery &
reliability by providing advanced asset
monitoring and maintenance
Increase safety and quality of water supply by applying
system-wide quality monitoring and degradation detection
Increase energy efficiency of water supply operations by ~30%
via insight into operational assets (pumps, vaults, pipelines)
energy consumption and leakage detection.

7. Progress Report
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Testbed
Approval
• April 2016
• Determine
Participant Roles
Define Initial
Use Cases
1) Predictive
Maintenance
2) Reduce Energy
Consumption
3) Water Quality
Monitoring
4) Leakage Detection
5) Stored Water
Quality
Improvement
6) Balance Supply &
Demand
Align Testbed
Participants
• Establish platform
• Determine IIRA*, &
security applicability
and methodologies
• Co-design the
system
Establish
Connectivity
with
Equipment
• Build and connect
software and
hardware assets
• Determine relations
with other Testbeds
• Research additional
capabilities needed
Initial Results
Reporting
• December 2017
• Contribute guidance
and design
documentation
• Bring in other
ecosystem partners
* Industrial Internet Reference Architecture (www.iiconsortium.org/IIRA)

8. The Team
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Initial location:
中国 广西 钦州市

9. What’s next?
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Activity Timeline
Establishing the cloud system and connectivity to
the equipment. Integrate brownfield equipment.
Completed
2016/17
Monitor operational state of equipment. Ongoing
Identify anomalies & perform diagnostics. Ongoing
Improve stored water quality. Balance supply &
demand.
2017/2018
Increase energy efficiencies by 30%, share best
practices and continually enhance business models.
2018 & beyond
Have questions about this
testbed?
• Visit
www.iiconsortium.org/intellig
ent-urban-water-supply
• Read full article:
www.iiconsortium.org/news/j
oi-articles/2017-
Nov_JoI_Intell_Urban_Water_
Supply_Testbed.pdf
• Send email to
info@iiconsortium.org

10. “One challenge the testbed has faced is
interoperability. The ability to adapt to
various data formats is incredibly important.
Combined with other
capability upgrades, this may lead to
increased revenues by adapting or
transforming old
equipment to new technologies.”
~DR. SHI-WAN LIN, CEO, THINGSWISE
Many cities in the world face water
supply challenges including water
quality, supply and demand, and energy
consumption. It is difficult to monitor
and maintain due to lack of visibility into
the supply pipeline, pumping efficiency
and equipment operations.
The Problem
Intelligent Urban Water
Supply Testbed
Our Solution
Team
The Intelligent Urban Water Supply
Testbed system integrates urban
water supply assets, information
systems and business processes to
deliver safe, quality water to urban
residents in a highly reliable and
efficient manner. It benefits society,
businesses and the environment.
• WPG
• Thingswise, LLC
• CAICT
Key Benefits
• Enhances efficiency of Water Supply
Operations and reduces water delivery
energy consumption up to 30%.
• Increases public safety and quality of
water supply.
• Improves availability of water supply.
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