GENERAL PRESENTATION Gabriel Anzaldi

ganzaldi@bdigital.org

Phone. +34 93 553 45 40

M. +34 619 11 36 72

FACTS

CONVOCATORIA CALL FP7-ICT-2011-8. Topic 6.3. (ICT for efficient water resources management). Challenge 6: ICT for a low carbon economy. Presentat el 17de gener del 2012

TIPO PROYECTO STREP (Small or Medium Scale Focused Research Projects )

DURACIÓN 36 meses

BUDGET CONSORTIUM: 4.350.653 € BDIGITAL: 944.960 € -- 22%

FUNDING CONSORTIUM: 3.304.802€

SOCIOS 9 SOCIOS 4 PAISES (UK, GRÈCIA, ALEMANYA I ESPANYA) 4 EMPRESAS, 3 CENTROS DE I+D, 2 ASOCIACIONES/AAPP

PLANNING

• Total Duration: 36 Months

• Iterative design methodology: each design is validated several times in

the pilots, following a process of recursive improvement. Each vertical

integration has a version of the entire WatERP developments

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OBJECTIVE - SCOPE

ACRONYM WatERP: Water Enhanced Resource Planning

OBJECTIVE WatERP improves matching of water supply distribution and demand from a holistic point of view (IWRM).

Water Supply Distribution Chain

Scarcity Regions Abundance Regions

WATER SAVINGS

Water can be saved through: infrastructure investment; improved coordination; or behavioral change-measures with different costs & time scales. While 40% water savings could be achieved from technological improvements, this value is the sum of a series of different actions. Based on water resources management experience, it can be roughly estimated that improving coordination among actors could lead to water savings between 5 and 8%, with smart metering providing an additional 8 to 10%. WatERP technological solution gives response to the coordination among actors building a smart water solution.

OBJECTIVES

1. Facilitate multiple-scalable decisions:

Across geographic scales (from

hilltop to ocean), across

organizational scales (regulator, bulk

water supplier, water utilities,..) and

across jurisdiction levels (National,

Regional and Local).

2. Interconnect, through standardized

SOA-MAS ICT architecture,

subsystems that control and manage

the production, management and

consumption of water

3. Develop a web-based Open

Management Platform (OMP) for

water resource managers integrating

near real-time knowledge from

developed building blocks (DSS &

DMS) and supported by an ontology

driven knowledge base on water

supplies and water usage.

Demand Management System (DSS)

Decision Support System (DSS)

OPEN MANAGEMENT PLATFORM (OMP)

(WP2) Development of an

interoperable architecture based on

multi agent systems & open

interfaces.

WORK PACKAGES

(WP1)

Create the basis that will enable a

comprehensive water supply

distribution chain and usage

knowledge base (KB) to be

established.

Demand Management System (DSS)

Decision Support System (DSS)

OPEN MANAGEMENT PLATFORM (OMP)

(WP3) Collect and

integrate data from heterogeneous

sources, covering the entire water

supply distribution chain, into a

global and uniform Water Data

Warehouse

WORK PACKAGES

Demand Management System (DSS)

Decision Support System (DSS)

OPEN MANAGEMENT PLATFORM (OMP)

(WP6) Design &

Implementation of a

customizable Prototype of

a web-based Open Water

Management Platform

(WP4) Create a Decision Support tool to enhance the decisions of the manager, in matching water supply with demand

(WP5) Create a Demand

Management System, demand

models & advanced socio-economic

tools

WORK PACKAGES

Demand Management System (DSS)

Decision Support System (DSS)

OPEN MANAGEMENT PLATFORM (OMP)

(WP7) Validation of the project

approach in 2 real pilots

representative of different

European characteristics

(WP8) Dissemination & Exploitation

(WP9) Project Management

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WP7 PILOTS

1. Focused on upper part of distrib. Chain

2. Shows South European Characteristics

3. 6M inhabitants, 140 municipalities, 5

reservoirs

4. Main Interest: Improve coordination in the

upper part of the distribution chain to save

water

1. Focused on final water distribution

system

2. Shows North European Characteristics

3. More than 300k inhabitants

4. Main Interest: Reduce energy-

consumption

MAIN OUTCOMES

WatERP Water Management Ontology The Water Management Ontology encompasses the water cycle from its management perspective with the aim to establish recommendations and alerts regarding actions taken or decisions made concerning its various control and management systems.

MAIN OUTCOMES

WatERP ICT Architecture The communication architecture will focus on providing intelligent and near real-time linkage between the various water supply distribution chain management tools or systems (Data Management Systems, Decision Support systems, Demand Management Systems, Weather Forecast Systems, etc.) and the OMP by implementing a SOA-MAS architecture.

MAIN OUTCOMES

WatERP Water Data Warehouse (WDW) A central topic of the project (which is also the basis for all other intelligent support functionalities) is the implementation of intelligent, yet efficient, management of a large amount of data of static, real time and near real-time character, coming from a number of heterogeneous sources (and which should also allow for the easy integration of new data sources).

MAIN OUTCOMES

WatERP Decision Support Systems (DSS ) One of the key features in this project is the design and development of a Decision Support System (Water DSS) which will provide recommendations based on inferred knowledge to help achieve the overall objective of matching an accurate supply to the forecasted demand across the whole water supply distribution chain and contributes to the reduction of energy consumption.

MAIN OUTCOMES

WatERP Demand Management System (DMS) This building block will be focused on the demand-side of the water supply distribution chain, with the aim to enhance capabilities and provide information and analysis tools for generating real-time usage consumption data and forecasted future demands. This information will feed the Decision Support System such that supply can be matched with demand. Over the long-term, these tools would support planning and assessment of policy instruments for water conservation and efficient water use. Through the exploitation of the knowledge base, as well as real-time water consumption monitoring, the DMS will develop communication tools to enhance awareness among water users towards water conservation.

MAIN OUTCOMES

WatERP Open Management Platform (OMP) The WatERP Open Management Platform is an information hub, which will support decision making at different stages such as water supply and demand (and forecasting), determining water consumption patterns, water allocation decisions, etc., enabling knowledge-based water governance to be achieved throughout the water supply distribution chain.

SUPORTING STAKEHOLDERS

POTENTIAL IMPACT

• Technology: Enhanced supervision of water network

• Water authorities: Better management and water, energy and cost savings

• European water distributors: Increased efficiency in daily operations and network optimization regarding long term planning

• Water management equipment suppliers: Opportunity to be integrated through new open interfaces

• Water users: Increase user awareness, and ultimately water and energy savings

• Standardization: Encourage open data policies and the usage of open standards such as OGC® WaterML 2.0, SOS, WFS/WPS

• Trans-national Collaboration: Support European level analyses, becoming a tool for global policies

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