GENERAL PRESENTATION Gabriel Anzaldi
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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