WATER INNOVATION EUROPE

14-15 JUNE 2017 | BRUSSELS

“Action Plan to Digital Single Market for Water” ICT4WATER

Produce an Action Plan to move towards a to Digital Single Market for Water Services . Key interest points to be addressed

are:

To link with the existing legislation regarding the directives concerned and all existing initiatives related to water and ICT.

To develop recommendations for ensuring interoperability and data sharing across services, fostering the harmonization of water

ICT systems and infrastructures.

To enable FAIR principles (Findable, Accessible, Interoperable, and Re-usable) in data-as-a-service models and paradigms

across NEXUS approach.

To promote Water Data Management services as transversal enablers in Smart Cities and Smart Grids.

To push for Water Standards which could help the development of the European Digital Single Market for water.

To foster existing business models evolution to uptake new market requirements and opportunities to integrate water data within

the business processes.

Provide options of high level water data architectures leading to enhanced data quality, management and integrity solutions

(including Big Data approaches).

To develop and promote water data management methodologies to ensure data protection, privacy, network access,

confidentiality and integrity of water related information.

“Action Plan to Digital Single Market for Water” OBJECTIVES

“Action Plan to Digital Single Market” Planning

Month

Tasks 1 2 3 4 5 6 7 8 9 10 11 12

State of the art

Action Plan

Synergies (F2F)*

Dissemination

Projects contributions

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ÍNDEX

1. ICT Water Standards & Data Harmonization

2. Next Revolution of Water Infrastructure: Road to Water 4.0

3. ICT Role in Water Governance and Legislation

ICT as enabler to improve water management and make smarter the water infrastructure.

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ICT Water Standards & Data Harmonization

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Role of standards in water infrastructure

• Scalable and more reliable to connect different software and hardware systems.

• Improves data and knowledge sharing between organizations and projects allowing a greater exploitation of the information.

• Support the internationalization of smaller and innovative companies.

• Makes easier the market entry for small and medium-sized companies.

Multitude of proprietary and open standards that hamper compatibility between products, infrastructures and processes. Currently, standards hinder interoperability

between systems at a high level, while maintaining interoperability low one (software / hardware).

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Standards in the water domain

GeoFabric

Reference Architecture

Spatial Data Exchange

Hydrologic Data Exchange (EEUU)

Hydrologic Datasets

Water Datasets

OGC Services Architecture for interoperable access and processing of geospatial information.

OGC Web Services (OWS Context). The OGC Smart Cities Spatial Information Framework provides critical guidance on how to plan and implement open spatial standards architectures that guide deployment of interoperable information system components. https://portal.opengeospatial.org/files/?artifact_id=61188

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Importance of the Interoperability (Moving to a semantic interoperability framework)

Technical

01

Standardized Communications

protocols

Data Exchange Formats

Ontology-driven approaches

Knowledge-exchange between organizations

and regions

Syntactical

02 Semantic 03

Organizational

04

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Towards Standardizing the semantic interoperability

Key Semantic Interoperability Challenges

• Sharing information using Open Data frameworks.

• Harmonize information and their measurements for enabling data integration and fusion (water-energy-agriculture-environment-etc.)

• Aligning semantic models with the Internet Of Things towards a more coordinated & integrative water domain (and multi-domain).

(Source: WIDEST D2.1)

Ontology Name Subject Areas Representation

Language

Organisation Ontology Management of the Water Cycle in Industry; Customer Relationship RDF

OTN Wastewater and Storm Water Collection (including Flood RiskManagement); Data

Management and Smart City Services OWL

Ordnance Survey Hydrology Ontology

Water Supply and Distribution OWL

NNEW weather ontology

Wastewater and Storm Water Collection (including Flood Risk Management); River Basin Management

OWL

USGS CEGIS Wastewater and Storm Water Collection (including Flood Risk Management); River

Basin Management; Water Scarcity and Droughts OWL

Ordnance Survey Buildings and Places Ontology

Data Management and Smart City Services OWL

h-TechSight Technologies Management of the Water Cycle in Industry RDF,DAML+OIL

GWSW TopBas River Basin Management OWL

SWEET Wastewater and Storm Water Collection (including Flood Risk Management); River

Basin Management; Water Scarcity and Droughts Sea Water; Sustainable Development, Circular Economy, & Ecosystem Services

OWL

CUAHSI Quality of Water; Sustainable Development, Circular Economy, & Ecosystem Services;

Drinking Water Production; Water Reuse and Recycling; Wastewater Treatment (including Recovery of Resources)

OWL

Water Ontologies (1)

Ontology Name Subject Areas Representation

Language

INWS Quality of Water OWL

SemantEco Quality of Water; Sustainable Development, Circular Economy, and Ecosystem Services N/A

WaWO Wastewater Treatment (including Recovery of Resources); Water Reuse and Recycling N/A

EHMP Data Management and Smart City Services; Quality of Water; River Basin Management OWL

DOLCE-ROCKS Wastewater and Storm Water Collection (including Flood Risk Management); River Basin

Management; Water Scarcity and Droughts Sea Water; Sustainable Development, Circular Economy, & Ecosystem Services

OWL

hydrOntology Wastewater and Storm Water Collection (including Flood Risk Management); River Basin

Management; Water Scarcity and Droughts Sea Water; Sustainable Development, Circular Economy, & Ecosystem Services

OWL

WatERP Ontology

Water Supply and Distribution; Data Management and Smart City Services Sustainable Development, Circular Economy, & Ecosystem Services; Water-Energy Nexus; River Basin Management; Water Reuse and Recycling; Management of the Water Cycle in Industry;

Water Scarcity and Droughts

OWL

OGC® HY_Features

Water Supply and Distribution; Data Management and Smart City Services Sustainable Development, Circular Economy, & Ecosystem Services

Water-Energy Nexus; River Basin Management; Water Reuse and Recycling; Management of the Water Cycle in Industry

Water Scarcity and Droughts

OWL/RDF

Water Ontologies (2)

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Reference Semantic Models

PRO. Hydrologic water information representation aligned with O&M and WaterML2.

CONS. Draft model only focuses on hydrography abstractions.

HY_FEATURES SAREF SSN/SOSA

PRO. Highly compatible with water domain models (HY_FEATURES)

PRO. Highly aligned with IoT and WoT.

PRO. Modularity to include other semantic models.

CONS. Needs for detail about the water domain.

PRO. Highly aligned with the O&M.

PRO. Easy representation of water sensors.

PRO. Modularity to include other semantic models.

CONS. Actuation procedures are not widely covered.

Develop a vocabulary that covers all the management needs of a domain, taking into account the functionalities of the devices, representation of the time series (measures and units) and geographical contextualization of the devices (a combination of SAREF, SSN, GeoSPARQL / W3CGeo, etc.).

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https://ec.europa.eu/futurium/en/content/ict-water-standards-data-harmonization-deadline-3105-0

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Next Revolution of Water Infrastructure: Road to Water 4.0

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Water Infrastructure Outline

DRIVERS:

• Reduced cost

• High

availability of

resources

• Great need for

digitization

• Relatively low

complexity

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(*) Design principles for Industrie 4.0 Scenarios: A literature review-M. Hermann et al. TU Dortmund

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Water 4.0: The challenge of ICT

• Embedded Systems

• Smart Water Sensors

• Smart Pumps & valves

• Virtual Water Objects

Connected Objects

• Wireless networks

• 5G Networks

• Gateways

Networks

• Big Data adoption

• Knowledge-driven approaches

Analytics

• Water Device Management

• Cloud Platforms integral water management

• Risk Minimization tool

Platforms

• Intelligent control of the water flow

• Water consumers analytics

• Energy Efficiency and nexus

Application

Water Standards and Data Harmonization schemes

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Smart Water Grid: A new Paradigm

Source: TNO (http://www.linsen.nl/tno-smart-water-grid-10-03 )

Divide the urban water into smaller grids using a cloud management of the network. The water flows in two directions.

ICT Challenges in the Smart Water Grid

• Intelligent platform for managing water flows and ICT network.

• Guarantee water resources including both natural and manufactured water

• Intelligent control of water flow using bi-directional communication in water infrastructure.

• Risk-minimization for assets in the water infrastructure.

• Energy efficiency in operating and maintaining water infrastructure.

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ICT Role in Water Governance and Legislation

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Water Governance Outline

Establish mechanism to ensure water directives at different administrative

levels (municipal, regional, country and

European)

Assurance of Water Directives

Reduction of Stakeholders

Fragmentation Water Diplomacy

1 2 3

Engage stakeholders for improving decision-making, increase

awareness about the risk and value of water and

handling conflicts.

Mechanisms and strategies to water

management to match the supply with the

demand.

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Water Governance: New Open and Collaborative Paradigm

Assurance of Water Directives

Real-Time DSS and Recommender systems to better understand

governance decisions and monitor water directives.

Reduction of stakeholders fragmentation

Citizen Science, Social Applications and Serious Games to activate collaboration and

engage users on the value of water.

Water Diplomacy

Semantic Interoperability and Data Standarization (Open Data) to enabling participatory environments and reduce

administrative burdens.

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Water Governance in the way of Water 4.0

Real-Time DSS and Recommender

Systems

Citizen Science

Social Applications

Serious Games

Cloud Computing

Mobile Applications

Open Data

Water 4.0 will provide mechanisms for a efficient, effective and collaborative governance.

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