Optimization through the Internet of Stormwater (IoS)

Lessons Learned from Austin, Texas

Acknowledgements

Focus of Presentation

-Internet of Things for Stormwater

-Challenges associated with the Internet of Stormwater

-Future opportunities for Civil Engineering

Mission Statement

From the Plenary: Why are we here?

2008-2014Get my hands dirty, and change the world.

2015-Bring Civil Engineering into the 21st Century.

What is State of the Art?

InnovationAcceleration

AdaptationCollaboration

DedicationAspiration

How about Revolutionary?

World Smart Cities Expo

Energy, Transportation, Resiliency, Clean Water

Next to nothing on Stormwater

The Face of Opportunity

How it Works

API: Application Programming Interface

-A modern way for different programs to exchange information

-It means we don’t have to develop the full stack

-Promotes leverage and collaboration with other software applications

Something Useful!

How Can We Engage in IoS?

-Don’t wait for Google X

-Get to know our local Universities

-Meet computer scientists and electrical engineers

-Hire brilliant interns to work on hard problems!

Bridging the Gap

-If you’re in this room, you’re an expert at LID

-Computer Scientists will never be Civil Engineers…and vice versa

-Opportunity to leverage a different skill set

-Most students would rather work on real environmental problems

What is your most exciting problem?

Conferences: The Morning After

That sounds like a lot of work.-Few things worth while are easy

I’ll just do it the same way I always have.-Prone to risk aversion

It’s too fancy, too many moving parts.-Modern, elegant design approaches

Endless Possibilities

-New ways of public engagement: Public displays showing the real-time impact of LID

-Organic analysis (metadata): Let the public provide input through citizen scientists

-Network-level effects: Real-time analysis of the watershed

-Continually driven by ubiquitous sensing

Come Talk to Us

Scott Landers, EIT, CPESCslanders@optirtc.com

Marcus Quigley, PE, CPESC, D.WREmquigley@optirtc.com