Internet of Things is changing the way in which complex infrastructure such as water and wastewater services is provided. The ability to remotely optimize and diagnose complex systems presents opportunities for specialist equipment service providers to add significant just-in-time or even just-ahead-of-time business models.
3. Water crisis?
2nd Highest
Global Risk by
Impact
World Economic Forum
32Bn m3/yr
Leakage globally
30% of pipe
bursts undetected
3%energy for
Pumping & Aeration
£1Bn to replace
7% of London network
7. 7
WaterWorX software stack
Domain
Apps 3rd Party?
Domain
Platform
Core
Platform
Graph Database
NoSQL database Technology
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AA
DAS
SWIM Interoperability
Model
8. SCADA
Pressure
Control
Leakage
Reporting
Valve
Customer?
Operations
B u s i n e s s a p p l i c a t i o n s
• Network & business Modelling
• Asset management
USERS • Workflow scheduling
Backoffice
Mgt.
USERS
Front-line
Mobile
Service
Partners
Vertical siloed operations
Control
Room
Network
Mgt.
9. M2M applications model - silos
M2M applications model - Silos
WTP
Utility Alarm
Despatch Centre
• ‘000s of sites
• Non specialist despatchers
• Time scheduled maintenance
Telemetry
Critical
Load
A/M
GSM
Alarms
Vendor
A
M2M
Standby
Generator
10. IOT Model - connected
Utility Asset
Management
Critical
Load
Maintenance
Service Provider
F,I
A/M
GSM
Engine Alt
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REG
Maint.
Service
Diagnostics
WTP
Network
Sensors
SCADA
&
Actuators
IoTModel - Connected
11. IoS Services model - Integrated
Customer Service
Management
F,I
Energy Services
Provider
GSM
Optimiser
Engine Alt
P
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REG
Diagnostics
Network
Sensors
&
Actuators
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Fuel Tank
Asset mgt.
Smart
Grid
Critical
Load
Tariff
Hz
Demand response
Export
WTP
WSN
12. Breaking down the silos
Horizontal integration
Resource Discovery
• Common, machine-readable
API
• HTTPS, REST, JSON
• Annotate existing APIs
• A simple foundation
13. A B
• Domain knowledge
• Machine readable metadata
• Service discovery
• Service sharing
• User Interface
• Security
SWIM
SPeSremDoratvonticacteoicsls
Interoperability
14. Innovation at the edge driven by new
prototyping platforms
CloudBit
Raspberry
PI Compute
Kinoma Create
15. Final thought….
The future of the IoT likely will rest,
not in the hands of major
corporations, but in the hands of
entrepreneurs?
Rich Quinell – Editor IOT World
Laurie Reynolds
Notes de l'éditeur
The meaning of data and importance of semantics
Distributed intelligence at the edge and protocol implications
Thinking laterally – HyperCat – a horizontal integration standard
Connected knowledge and collaboration.
World is facing a water crisis
3bn m3/year enough for 620 million people in UK (or 310 in US! – US per capita consumption circa 300l/p/d)
Thames water invested 1bn to replace 7% of the network, but did not get as big a reduction in leakage as it hoped.
3% of energy used in pumping and wastewater treatment. About 30% of it is wasted = 15 of UK electricity demand.
We are working on shaping the water infrastructure of our future cities.
Water plays a critical role in the quality of life.
Whatever shape our future cities may take, they will still be based on 100 year old pipes!
Its like asking a 100 year old man to run the marathon
Global market: $400bn needed, $100 bn budgeted
$3.6Bn estimate for smart water share of this. Low and conservative, and doesn’t include Enterprise IT element.
UK market planned investment in pipe networks:
Waterworx is a family of apps for managing water operations across a water catchment Source to tap and drain to river. WWX is a library of things such as pumps, pump stations, tanks, flowmeters, boreholes etc.which will be made available through a ‘marketplace’
We see opportunity to standardise the user experience with powerful APIs or Apps
Aimed at water utilities, and large water users/wastewater producers – airports, hospitals, universities, private industrial estates, parks,
Thinking laterally HyperCat is a new standard introduced by a UK industrial consortium to enable auto-discovery of sensor data. It will make it much easier to integrate legacy and future systems.
Hypercat logo links to the 1248 wiki
Until now, building for IOT has been reserved for large companies and experts, limiting the power of what’s possible and the rate of innovation. Ayah Bdeir, founder of LittleBits
Cloudbit makes an open accessible instantaneous platform available to anyone to prototype test ideas and participate in a field which is changing society.