Smart Urban Water Networks: Solutions, Trends and Challenges

Di Nardo, Armando; Boccelli, Dominic L.; Herrera, Manuel; Creaco, Enrico; Cominola, Andrea; Sitzenfrei, Robert; Taormina, Riccardo

doi:10.3390/w13040501

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“…Acquired, primary and/or processed data may also provide information on leak detection or water loss [25]. Digital transformation in water industry improves even the maintenance management of water infrastructure [26].…”

Section: Water Infrastructure: Current Status In Cluj Napoca and Fact...mentioning

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Water management issues in the context of music festivals

Giurgea

Safta

Lupu

et al. 2023

IOP Conf. Ser.: Earth Environ. Sci.

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In recent years, festivals, especially music festivals have become important vectors for promoting their host cities. Festivals are complex phenomena with high economic and socio-cultural impact. High CO2 emissions and huge resource consumption are commonly related to the festivals’ negative environmental impact. Ensuring the suitable amount of water for a large-scale event is essential for both the audience experience and the city residents, especially when their access to water is hindered by excessive water usage for the festival. Therefore, an accurate estimation of water consumption during festivals is a prerequisite for rigorous water planning. In the Covid-19 world, due to the worsening crisis of resources and to the increasing pressure exerted by audiences asking for more eco-conscious events, festival organizers are called to get together with other stakeholders and re-examine the water management issues. Water companies have already started to embrace digital solutions. Their further implementation will result in a large amount of environmental data that could contribute to a paradigm shift concerning festival sustainability. The present paper was conceived around this topic, with the goal of increasing the awareness of all the actors involved in festival operational processes. Outcomes of a desk research and a case study focused on the UNTOLD and Electric Castle music festivals are presented.

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Section: Water Infrastructure: Current Status In Cluj Napoca and Fact...mentioning

confidence: 99%

Water management issues in the context of music festivals

Giurgea

Safta

Lupu

et al. 2023

IOP Conf. Ser.: Earth Environ. Sci.

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“…It is intended to provide some details regarding the possible applications, the sensors exploited, and the characteristics of the wireless communication channel. More exhaustive reviews on such topics can be found in the literature [2,4,6,[28][29][30][31].…”

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From Radio to In-Pipe-Acoustic Communication for Smart Water Networks in Urban Environments: Design Challenges and Future Trends

Fishta,

Raviola,

Fiori

2023

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The smart management of water resources is an increasingly important topic in today's society. In this context, the paradigm of Smart Water Grids (SWGs) aims at a constant monitoring through a network of smart nodes deployed over the water distribution infrastructure. In such a way, a continuous assessment of water quality and state of health of the pipeline infrastructure can be achieved, allowing an early detection of leaks and water contamination. Acoustic wave-based technology has arisen as a viable communication technique among the nodes of the network. Such technology can be suitable to replace traditional wireless networks in SWGs, as the acoustic channel is intrinsically embedded in the water supply network. However, the fluid-filled pipe is one of the most challenging media to be employed for data communication. This paper aims at reviewing those works dealing with acoustic-based communication networks in real large-scale urban water supply networks. An overview on the characteristics, trends and design challenges of existing works is provided as a guideline for future research.

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“…As WDN systems are critical to human lives, the IoT-based WDN infrastructure can be sensitive to/prone to political, military, and terrorist activities [245], [246]. Hence the cyber security for the WDN system should be ensured for the reliable water distribution networks [247]- [249]. The types of attacks on cloud plane and its existing measures for maintaining cyber security in the WDN-enabled IoT system are present in Table 12.…”

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IoT-Enabled Water Distribution Systems—A Comparative Technological Review

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Water distribution systems are one of the critical infrastructures and major assets of the water utility in a nation. The infrastructure of the distribution systems consists of resources, treatment plants, reservoirs, distribution lines, and consumers. A sustainable water distribution network management has to take care of accessibility, quality, quantity, and reliability of water. As water is becoming a depleting resource for the coming decades, the regulation and accounting of the water in terms of the above four parameters is a critical task. There have been many efforts towards the establishment of a monitoring and controlling framework, capable of automating various stages of the water distribution processes. The current trending technologies such as Information and Communication Technologies (ICT), Internet of Things (IoT), and Artificial Intelligence (AI) have the potential to track this spatially varying network to collect, process, and analyze the water distribution network attributes and events. In this work, we investigate the role and scope of the IoT technologies in different stages of the water distribution systems. Our survey covers the state-of-the-art monitoring and control systems for the water distribution networks, and the status of IoT architectures for water distribution networks. We explore the existing water distribution systems, providing the necessary background information on the current status. This work also presents an IoT Architecture for Intelligent Water Networks -IoTA4IWNet, for real-time monitoring and control of water distribution networks. We believe that to build a robust water distribution network, these components need to be designed and implemented effectively. INDEX TERMS Internet of things, IoT communication technologies, IoT services, water distribution networkThis article has been accepted for publication in IEEE Access.

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Smart Urban Water Networks: Solutions, Trends and Challenges

Abstract: This Editorial presents the paper collection of the Special Issue (SI) on Smart Urban Water Networks [...]

Cited by 18 publications

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Water management issues in the context of music festivals

Water management issues in the context of music festivals

From Radio to In-Pipe-Acoustic Communication for Smart Water Networks in Urban Environments: Design Challenges and Future Trends

IoT-Enabled Water Distribution Systems—A Comparative Technological Review

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