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Keynote presentation given by IBM Director of Smarter Water Management Cameron Brooks at IWA Montreal, September 2010
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© 2010 IBM Corporation
Let’s Build a Smarter Planet:Smarter Water Management
IWA World Water Congress & Exhibition, MontrealSeptember 22, 2010
Dr. Cameron Brooks – Director, Advanced Water Management, IBM Big Green Innovations
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Agenda
� The Opportunity
� Collaborative Innovation
� Critical Success Factors
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Something profound is happening…
INSTRUMENTED
We now have the ability to measure, sense and see the exact condition of practically everything.
INTERCONNECTED
People, systems and objects can communicate
and interact with each other in entirely new ways.
INTELLIGENT
We can respond to changes quickly and accurately, and get better results
by predicting and optimizing for future events.
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What does it mean to be a Smart City?
Measuring, Monitoring, Modeling and Managing
MeteringSensing
Real Time
Data Integration
Real Time
+ Historical Data
Data Modeling
+ Analytics
Visualization
+ Decisions
� Data modeling and analytics to create insights from data to feed decision support and actions
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Feedback to user and data source;
Incentives and actions to change behavior
� Comparison of historical data, with newly collected data
� Data collection
� Data Integration
Source: IBM Corporate Strategy
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Intelligent systems that gather, synthesize and apply information will change the way entire industries operate.
Smart waterApply monitoring and management technologies to help optimize the availability, delivery, use, and quality of water as well as related systems including energy and chemical treatment.
Smart trafficUse real-time traffic prediction and dynamic tolling to reduce congestion and its byproducts while positively influencing related systems.
Smart energyAnalyze customer usage and provide customized products and services that help to boost efficiency from the source through the grid to the end user.
Water
Energy
Chemicals
Carbonemissions
Congestion
Publictransportation Smart home
Carbonemissions
Energysources
Energy grid
Energy
Noisepollution
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Smarter Planet Progression PathU
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Manage Data
Analyze Patterns
Optimize Outcomes
Focus on integrated existing data sources to enable collaboration and increase innovation capacity
Leverage real-time data and new instrumentation to fill water information gaps, spot new patterns, and further increase innovation capacity
Mass application of community insights and predictive analytics to enable intelligent decision support and strategic risk management
Build an Integrated Management System
Optimize Management Across Multiple Domains
Prepare for a Smarter Systematic Approach1 2 3
Value realized
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Smarter Water Management means enabling higher levels collaboration and innovation across value chains and ecosystems
NaturalWater
Sources
RawWater
Transport
CleanWaterSupply
ConsumersSewage
Treatment
Recycled/Treated
A lot more data is needed to fully understand, model and predict how water flows around this planet – from natural water sources, to how it is consumed; and what the impacts and dependencies are on other resources.
Access to this information will ensure that we don’t just fix or rebuild existing infrastructure, but to do it better and smarter .
Allowing us to become smarter in how we consume and pay for water.
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Information Technology Enables
Smarter Water Management
The Smart Water Network’ - a 21st Century System
� Sensing and monitoring of physical infrastructure, integrated with proactive asset management
� Streaming data systems for critical operations, enabling rapid, real-time decision making
� IT infrastructure to manage information across multiple water organizations & constituents, enabling system-level decisions
� Advanced analytics with predictive capability and modeled decision support
� All enabling more efficient operationsand providing decision support capability
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Much of Water Management is Improving Information Flow & Use
“Today’s decisions and policies will shape our water future…The effectiveness of those decisions depends on the quality of information …In addition to improved water data the United States should develop and expand …forecasting and predictive models and systems … to educate and influence water use behavior of individual[s], businesses and resource managers”
Source : NSTC, “A Strategy For Federal Science And Technology To Support Water Availability And Quality In The United States, - Report Of The National Science And Technology Council Committee On Environment And Natural Resources Subcommittee on Water Availability and Quality”, September 2007
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Energy data
Geology/ hydrology
Economic
Climate
Strategic Water Information Water Management platform usage
Environment/Ecology
Quality
Quantity
Run-offLocal
governmentsLeisure industry
The publicWater Authorities
Federal agencies
Other water agencies
Agriculture
Contractors/ customers
Stakeholders (as examples)
The Environment
Public awareness
Research
Water quality management
Water allocation
Impact assessments Compliance
Habitat conservation
Water quantity/
source mgmt
Land use planning
Collaborative uses (as examples)
Integrated set of technologies, data
and tools
Usage and Discharge
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Sonoma County Water Agency – Collaboration Platform
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Operator ChatCurrent SOP
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Benefits of a “Collaboration Platform”
� Foundation of a common goal – the optimal use of water within the SCWA service area through information transparency and sharing
– Provides an information backdrop to support efforts to balance between surface and ground water supplies, conservation, and recycling for the benefit of the region
– Communication/outreach tool to the Public & stakeholders
– Provide tool to optimize or balance water supply portfolios to meet demands– Overcome organizational fragmentation – establish collaboration /
cooperation� Improved Operations - Increased utilization of data from a variety of sources
will lead to improved overall operation and planning
– SCWA, its Contractors, and other Policy makers base decisions on more complete data
– Provide tool to track overall energy requirements for water delivery and treatment
� Emergency Regional Response Portal– Coordinated regional response to flooding, seismic events, wildfires, etc.
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SmartBay Natural Water System Management Solution for Galway Bay
� Real-time advanced analytics system developed in partnership with Ireland Marine Institute
� Marine research infrastructure of sensors and computational technology interconnected across Galway Bay collecting and distributing information on:
– coastal conditions– pollution levels– marine life
� Streaming real-time intelligence to allow better decision-support related to:
– Weather threats– Pollution alerts– Algal bloom prediction– Rogue waves, etc
� The monitoring services, delivered via the web and other devices, benefits tourism, fishing, aquaculture and the environment
Adapted from Smart Bay reference documentation
See video at http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=n2Xakur QCgU
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Smart Bathing Water Quality Monitoring Project with Ireland EPA
� Developed in collaboration with Ireland EPA, the portal provides up to date information about bathing areas across the country.
� The map-based website, provides the latest information, supplied by local authorities, on compliance status with EU bathing water quality standards at the 131 designated bathing sites around the country.
� Anyone setting out for the beach will be able to log on and see the latest results of water quality along with details such as lifeguard availability, blue flag status, tides and weather forecast
� Bathing water quality data that is uploaded directly to the site by local authorities will be used by the EPA, to assess the overall compliance of a bathing area with EU standards,
http://www.bathingwater.ie/
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River and Observatory Network for the Hudson
See video at http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=3okDzTeb4qI
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Smart Water Metering: managing customer water use in areas of increasing water stress
IBM / partner install, upgrade and/or network advanced wireless meters in homes and businesses.
Meters report as frequently as every 15 minutes either via cellphone or Wimax, or less frequently via short range protocol to a drive-by reader.
IBM installs or provides as a service the main billing system, or can run the entire billing service on an outsourced basis.
Meters can provide the home or business owner with immediate data on water consumption. This is known to promote water economy.
The system as a whole provides more granular data on usage trends and can alert of immediate and longer term problems.
More accurate meters provide better information in assets to inform capital & operational investment decisions
IBM Maximo / SAP enables meter management and maintenance - meter performance and failure can be tracked remotely.
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Enemalta and Water Services Corporations Building a smarter energy and water system
Business challenge: • Electricity is generated entirely by imported fossil fuel• Electrically powered desalination plants provide half if water supply. • Rising sea levels threaten Malta’s underground freshwater source.
Solution:• Internal transformation process geared towards increased efficiency and delivering affordable, secure energy while protecting environment• Nationwide smart grid and a fully integrated electricity and water system. • 250,000 interactive meters will monitor electricity usage in real time, set variable rates, and reward customers who consume less energyand water.
Benefits:� Data from the intelligent meters can be analyzed to help lower costs,
adopt efficient and sustainable consumption patterns and cut greenhouse gas emissions
� By addressing water and power issues as a system citizens can make smarter decisions about how and when they use power
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Smarter Metering Project – Dubuque, Iowa
Instrumented� Dubuque replacing all water meters with smarter meters� Dubuque installing low-flow devices to batch water� 7% expected increase in revenue from accurate billing
Interconnected� All meters communicate 15 minute reads through wireless systems� Community Engagement leverages an interconnected people system
Intelligent� Dubuque wants to conserve water, avoid water wastage. Conserving water can
also help consumers lower bills that are set to go up due to new metering� IBM Research working with City, Water utility and 250 pilot residences and
providing platform for all stakeholders to process and analyze consumption.� Strategy is to leverage information, alerts and insights to encourage change in
behavior resulting in conservation and fixing of leaks� Present analysis in a simple, user-friendly form, game-based approach
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Addressing Non-Revenue Water using Analytics and Optimization
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Leakage or Theft Detection at the Residential Level
Leakage Reduction using Dynamic Pressure Control
Optimal Valve Placement for Pressure Reduction
Understand usage patterns and detect anomalies for low and high consumption to detect leakage, theft or faulty meters
Create optimization model to adjust the pressure dynamically so that only the required flow will be supplied yielding cost reduction in energy and water achieved.
Find “optimal” location of leak(s) to explain difference between actual measurements and model predicted measurements
Use an optimization model to find the optimal number of valves, and their location, so as to enable the most effective pressure management
Leakage Detection at the Network Level using optimization
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Non Revenue Water – Advanced Analytics
� Machine-learning based techniques to detect anomalies, analyze trends, understand behavioral models and provide usage predictions
Normal Consumption
High Consumption Anomaly
Low Consumption Anomaly
Spike Anomaly
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Analytics Driven Asset Management
Demand Management
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Preventive Maintenance
Customer Service Lower Costs – Work Management
Develop analytics which can lower the cost of preventive maintenance.
Develop analytics which can improve the quality of service (uninterrupted, high
quality water) for water utility customers
Understand water usage patterns to support pricing and demand management.
Lower the operational cost of water utilities by effective crew scheduling
and optimal rolling stock use
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DC Water & Sewer Authority - Failure Analysis Example: Hydrants with more than 3 leak problems in the last 3 years
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Automated scheduling in a user selected zone of the city
Goal: •Number of Crews = 2•Shifts: 1 day shift per crew•Objective: Assign as many WO’s as possible to each crew, while maximizing the sum of the priority of the WO’s while meeting constraints of shift duration, lunch break & travel time.
User selected region for scheduling
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Automatically generated spatially sensitive schedules – shown in blue
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Weather prediction
Damage prediction
Restoration time
prediction
Resource requirement prediction
Fine scale weather prediction + Storm Impact and Response Prediction
The Problem:1. Weather causes damage and outages2. Outages require restoration 3. Restoration takes time, people, money
• Wind, rain, lightning, location and duration• Real time environmental conditions • Demographics of effected area • Impact locations, timing and response options
We build model of the situation (over location and time) covering weather observations, storm damage and related infrastructure data
= better real time and predictive management & importantly a faster recovery
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Smarter Stormwater Management - Optimizing Existing System Capacity
All assets of the same type in this area highlighted in blue
Search for all assets of the Type ‘natural channel’ with condition = 3 in this area. Results are highlighted in blue
Wireless network links monitoring devices to central command center
Sewer system data can also be linked with asset & workflow tools
to manage any specific maintenance requests
Innovative technologies such as Smart Manhole Covers are used to detect sewer flow levels
Data can also drawn from more traditional SCADA/sensors systems.
High resolution weather and flooding models are used to generate accurate flood maps with specifics on impact areas
Advanced analytics and optimization engines generate recommended actions for flood avoidance
Stormwater Management Command Center
Valves, pumps or inflatable dams are controlled dynamically to balance inline sewer storage and avoid potential overflows.
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Smart Levee Example – IjkDijk
• Netherlands project to understand what this “instrumented” levee will “look and feel like” as it breaks
• Multiple sensor types create a reference real-time “signature” from inside the levee, as hydraulic pressure builds up until the levee bursts (last burst was October 2008). Also tests:
– Effectiveness of different sensor types and applicability to levee management
– Applicability of numerical models
• IBM is undertaking integration, working with TNO (NL Government scientific research organization)
“Because of the increasing complexity of water management in densely built deltaic regions…a more accurate and more continuous insight into the functional quality of water management infrastructures will become increasingly important…occasional measurement and manual data processing procedures will no longer be sufficient…”Source: “The Ijkdijk” (Ijkdijk brochure)
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IBM Global Government and Education
Connected citizens contribute – and that can make many things better.
Leveraging the power of the community
transparent
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Creek Watch: Smarter Water through Citizen Science
� Exploration into using mobile devices to capture data– participatory data gathering with many users
– data provides new opportunities for analysis
• Proof of Concept– Collect simple environmental data about
waterways– Capture “citizen science” data / photos
• Location (GPS) and time - stamped
• Water level, water flow, trash
• IBM Research developing app in consultation with the California Water Board and volunteer watershed groups
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=_--6KAptDL4
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IBM Corporate Citizenship: Enabling Cleaner Water & Reducing Water-Borne Disease
IBM's World Community Grid, a global network of PCs
• Helping University of Virginia (U.S.) model and predict effects of commercial development, fishing and agriculture on Chesapeake Bay
• Assisting Tsinghua University (China) develop effective & efficient water filtering for desalination and good health by simulating flow through carbon nanotubes
• Enabling Inforium Bioinformatics & FIOCRUZ-Minas (Brazil)to seek cures for schistosomiasis
The Nature Conservancy & IBM:
• Providing watershed managers with software on "Rivers for Tomorrow," a free Web site.
• Offers satellite pictures, environmental data, and analytics.
• Worldwide: starting in Brazil, then Africa, China, U.S..
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Smarter River Basin Management: Water for Tomorrow Project
� Combines rich graphics and dynamic mapping capabilities
� Enables users to visualize the effects of different management scenarios on the overall health of their river basin
� Use map technologies similar to Google Earth to locate and analyze a local river basin
� Enables collaboration between colleagues working to develop sustainable water resources policies
Go to Flow
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Peterborough – Sustainable City Visualization
� A way of visualizing a city’s environmental performance and harnessing information to drive understanding, collaboration and speed of change
City Recycling
River Quality
Building C02
Understanding
Urban Water Loss
Information
Data from sensors and systemsGetting Value out of Existing Data,
Creating New Meaning
Engaging and Empowering Citizens, Driving Social Change
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Peterborough – Flood Risk Example
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CityOne – A Smarter Planet Game
� CityOne is a city simulator that models a number of factors that are distilled into a few metrics for the player (such as Citizen Happiness, Business Climate, etc.)
� Problems in the city manifest as “events”, which in turn are addressed by applying “solutions”.
� The strategy comes from deciding which solutions have the most impact on the city (based on the city infrastructure and industry budgets).
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The Challenge of a Smarter Planet
� Do you know enough, at the scale of the problem?
� Can you make sense of it?� Can you act on it?
� Do you have the collaborative relationships you need with others?
Instrumented
InterconnectedIntelligent
INNOVATION &
LEADERSHIP
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We’ve only just begun touncover what is possible on a smarter planet.
The world will continue to become smaller, flatter and smarter. We are moving into the age of the globally integrated and intelligent economy, society and planet.
By systemically managing water and energy use, as well as carbon emissions, smart organizations will realize true sustainability while achieving real business benefits—driving growth at the individual, organizational and population levels.
Let’s work together to drive real progress in our world.
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For more information & materials
� Smarter Water Management Thought Leadership
http://www.ibm.com/smarterplanet/water
� Smarter Water Management Solutions Home Page
http://www.ibm.com/green/water
� GIO Report on Oceans and Waterhttp://www.ibm.com/ibm/gio/water.html
� IBM Water Management Pains Summary Report
http://www-935.ibm.com/services/us/gbs/bus/pdf/ibm-water-pains-report-jan09.pdf