The document discusses the integration of IoT and blockchain technologies in water resource management, particularly in smart cities to enhance data integrity, security, and transparency. It highlights various use cases, including remote consumption metering, water quality monitoring, and automated audit trails for compliance verification. The document also addresses industry challenges, the need for improved water management strategies, and the potential cost savings from adopting these technologies.

1. Anna Poberezhna
September 2019
Integrated Innovations
i-Water Resource Management
Era of smart cities

2. Agenda
● IoT & blockchain recap
● Why we need integrity?
● Water management in the context of smart cities:
An emerging need for need for sharing data platform
● Blockchain & IoT – a tool for data integrity & security
● Review of use cases

3. IoT recap

4. Insurance &
Finance
Organisations
Waste water
treatment plant
Regulators &
authorities
Water Supply
facility
Quality
Assurance
& Audit
Removing transparency barriers and reducing risks.
Incentivises more effective activities.
Commercial
Water users
Blockchain: recap
Marco Dunand (CEO, Mercuria)
“Blockchain will save 30% in costs”

5. Industry Painpoints – an Opportunity for Change
Water Security Sustainability & Compliance
Catchment-wide strategies
for water that seek to balance
everyone’s needs and those
of the environment.
More water transfers between
regions from areas of water
surplus to areas of deficit,
more desalination plants, and
most controversially of all,
more new reservoirs.
The Environment Agency set
a target that the numbers of
serious pollution incidents
caused by the water
companies should trend down
to zero by 2020. But over the
last five years performance
has plateaued in the 50 to 60
range. In 2018 the water
companies caused 56 serious
pollution incidents.
Non Revenue Water Loss
It is very expensive or even
impossible in a paper system
or fragmented communication
methods.

6. NRW Levels globally

7. IoT in Water: recap
Source: Development Asia

8. IoT & Blockchain
Source: https://iiot-world.com/connected-industry/smart-water-management-using-internet-of-things-technologies/
“By 2019, 20% of all IoT deployments will have
basic levels of blockchain services enabled (IDC)”
A database management platform designed as core layer for
applications that include transactions & interactions.

9. IoT & Blockchain
Source: https://datafloq.com/read/securing-internet-of-things-iot-with-blockchain/2228
Monitoring the water parameters in the interconnected environments
& Smart cities
Blockchain is a database management platform designed as core
layer for applications that include transactions & interactions.

10. Use Case #1
What?
Remote water consumption metering / Remote
Water Quality Monitoring
How?
Sign and encrypt all collected data before it is sent
into the cloud and registered into the blockchain
database.
Why?
Used for for water quality monitoring at sensitive
events and sited: hazardous waste management
plants,
G7 meetings, Olympic games, waste treatment
plants, etc.
https://bitcoinexchangeguide.com/veolia-partners-with-ledger-in-their-quest-to-offer-cutting-edge-water-data-security-technology/

11. Use Case #2
What?
Project in Volga river, Russia
How?
Solar/battery powered drones, sensors, &
blockchain. Using mobile sensors attached on water
and flying drone’s surface. Drones will be able to
navigate through the reservoir to measure all water
quality parameters.
Why?
To measure water pollution in the Reservoir.
To integrate more transparency and trust in the
system.
https://bitcoinexchangeguide.com/veolia-partners-with-ledger-in-their-quest-to-offer-cutting-edge-water-data-security-technology/
Water network
monitoring

12. Use Case #3
What?
Waste Water vs
How?
Sign and encrypt all collected data before it is sent
into the cloud and registered into the blockchain
database.
Why?
To provide more transparency to the sector with
regards to spending, contracts, supply chain
management, and payments and pricing.
https://bitcoinexchangeguide.com/veolia-partners-with-ledger-in-their-quest-to-offer-cutting-edge-water-data-security-technology/
Possible water
transfers between
regions from areas
of water surplus to
areas of deficit –
means increased
necessity for secure
data communication
& exchange

13. Use Case #4
What & How?
The objective of the project is to develop a
secure registry of user’s actions, transactions
and their outputs in a blockchain data registry. It
will automate an audit trail for auditors and
regulators to verify compliance with the setoff
water/ environmental pollution goals.
It is an initial step towards complete automation
of the process flows of the online auction
platform.
- Automated validation of transactions
- Automated post-trade settlements
Source: Entrade
Environmental &
Sludge Trading

14. Source: H20Buildingservices / https://www.forbes.com/sites/ceciliarodriguez/2019/09/11/15-funniest-finalists-of-comedy-wildlife-photography-awards-2019/#5b200a52631c
Billing errors &
billing validation
& automation £560,000
in
6 months
Ouch…!

15. Advantages
S4Hub Platform - MVP
External
data
Enterprise
data
Supply chain
data
Asset
data
Digital twin
Blockchain
infrastructure
Traceability
Transactions
Standardization &
streamlining of data
Digital, secure, global data
system powered by the
platform that enables
reconciliation across 3rd
parties
Ecosystem
modelling and
creation of
marketplaces
Parts, components, materials
ESG
A unified ledger of information
Premium Features
S4Hub Solutions
Enterprise Apps
Partners’ Network
User Interface / Enterprise Apps
Supply chain
finance
Users’ NetworkUtility LayerData Aggregation
Open Water Platform

16. Our Achievements
Our Global
Presence in Media
& Publications

17. CONTACTS Anna Poberezhna
anna@smart4.tech
+ 44 75 960 9993
London, UK