Smart Water—How to Master the Future Challenges of Water Management

Müller-Czygan, Günter

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“…The next step is to make applications cost-efficient. Besides, all application solutions contain a standardized network core that guarantees standard data communication and also complies with safety and cybersecurity requirements [12].…”

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Smart Water Applications in Drinking Water Distribution Systems: A Review

Zhang¹

2023

Proceedings of the 2nd International Conference on Culture, Design and Social Development (CDSD 2022)

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As the basic substance in our bodies, drinking water is facing an intensive environment ever due to complicated reasons like climate change, urbanization, and epidemic diseases. Frequent water scarcity, contamination, and leakage urgently demand a deeper understanding and better management of drinking water distribution systems. Smart water technologies are able to guarantee both drinking water quantity and quality in the form of data collection, data transmission, and data analysis. This review exhibits the current common smart water applications in drinking water distribution systems along with limitations and future scope. A conclusion is shown that smart water applications would definitely have positive effects on better management and decision-making in a long term.

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Smart Water Applications in Drinking Water Distribution Systems: A Review

Zhang¹

2023

Proceedings of the 2nd International Conference on Culture, Design and Social Development (CDSD 2022)

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“…Previous studies have already pointed out that industrial development is far ahead of municipal demand [10,[43][44][45]. Therefore, the quantitative survey and qualitative expert interviews served to find out the reasons for the existing discrepancy between supply and demand as well as which obstacles play the biggest role in the projects (Table 2)-indications of this have already been identified in the KOMMUNAL 4.0 research project [11].…”

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“…In earlier research projects [44,45], industry participants repeatedly pointed out that there are no flagship projects or tools that can be used to adequately calculate possible digitization solutions and evaluate them regarding the own expected benefits. The consequence of this lack is that potential digitization solutions are not procured in the first place, or that the necessary resources are calculated incorrectly.…”

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How Does Digitization Succeed in the Municipal Water Sector? The WaterExe4.0 Meta-Study Identifies Barriers as well as Success Factors, and Reveals Expectations for the Future

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Water is increasingly taking center stage when it comes to coping with climate change. Especially in urban areas, negative consequences from heavy rainfall events and prolonged dry periods are rising worldwide. In the past, the various tasks of urban water management were performed by different departments that often did not cooperate with each other (water supply, wastewater disposal, green space irrigation, etc.), as the required water supply was not a question of available water volumes. This is already changing with climate change, in some cases even dramatically. More and more, it is necessary to consider how to distribute available water resources in urban areas, especially during dry periods, since wastewater treatment is also becoming more complex and costly. In the future, urban water management will examine water use in terms of its various objectives, and will need to provide alternative water resources for these different purposes (groundwater, river water, storm water, treated wastewater, etc.). The necessary technological interconnection requires intelligent digital systems. Furthermore, the water industry must also play its role in global CO2 reduction and make its procedural treatment processes more efficient; this will also only succeed with adequate digital systems. Although digitization has experienced an enormous surge in development over the last five years and numerous solutions are available to address the challenges described previously, there is still a large gap between the scope of offerings and their implementation. Researchers at Hof University of Applied Sciences have investigated the reasons for this imbalance as part of WaterExe4.0, the first meta-study on digitization in the German-speaking water industry, funded by the German Federal Ministry of Education and Research. Only 11% of roughly 700 identified products, projects and studies relate to real applications. For example, the surveyed experts of the water sector stated that everyday problems are considered too little or hardly at all in new solutions, which greatly overburdens users. Furthermore, they see no adequate possibility for a systematic analysis of new ideas to identify significant obstacles and to find the best way to start and implement a digitization project. The results from four methodologically different sub-surveys (literature and market research, survey, expert interviews and workshops) provide a reliable overview of the current situation in the German-speaking water industry and its expectations for the future. The results are also transferable to other countries.

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“…In water management, the possible applications of intelligent and smart solutions are being intensively discussed and are already being used (see e.g. at [3][4][5][6]). Modern automation technology for water management already has elements in its core that need not fear comparison with Industry 4.0 solutions.…”

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Smart Water—How to Master the Future Challenges of Water Management

Müller-Czygan¹

2021

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Innovative digital developments from industry like autonomous machine controls based on intelligent data acquisition, collection and evaluation, promises better adapting municipal infrastructure systems to changing conditions. When the technology initiative KOMMUNAL 4.0 was developed as an idea in 2015, digitalization was not a central topic in water management. As Industry 4.0 was present everywhere in the media, the idea of transferring suitable parts of the basic idea of Industry 4.0 to municipal water management was born. In particular, it was necessary to implement consistent IT and IoT communication at all levels of water management tasks. The aim was not only to create a uniform structure for networking a wide variety of applications, but also to round off KOMMUNAL 4.0's complete range of services with IoT for existing and newly developed products and solutions. Regardless of whether it concerns measurement and data technology applications, smart machines, SCADA or asset management systems, all application solutions contain a standardized network core that guarantees standard data communication and also complying with safety and cybersecurity requirements.

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Smart Water—How to Master the Future Challenges of Water Management

Cited by 6 publications

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Smart Water Applications in Drinking Water Distribution Systems: A Review

Smart Water Applications in Drinking Water Distribution Systems: A Review

How Does Digitization Succeed in the Municipal Water Sector? The WaterExe4.0 Meta-Study Identifies Barriers as well as Success Factors, and Reveals Expectations for the Future

Smart Water—How to Master the Future Challenges of Water Management

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