Smart Water solutions by Veolia Public presentation at Cafeet'2012

1. )
How can Smart City approaches
increase city resilience?
Focus on the water
and wastewater services
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2. Resilience of the water and the wastewater services
What do we expect from a water service ?
• Ensure availability of water and continuity of service
• Guarantee the quality of water
What do we expect from a wastewater service ?
• Protect public health and environment
• Provide and alternative resource (recycled water)
Can ICT help the water services to overcome disruptions and
to keep hazards from becoming disasters ?
Let’s consider
• Drought and water scarcity
• Pollution and terrorist attack
• Storm and flooding
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3. Drought and water scarcity
The issue
• Water shortages will become more severe as populations rise and
become more concentrated in the urban areas.
• Climate change could worsen the situation in some areas
• Utilities around the world will face increasing pressure to manage
the resource more efficiently.
How can “Smart water” help ?
• Automated meter reading to follow water consumption and data-
mining to forecast future needs
• Real time monitoring of water resources and decision support
tools to manage the ressources on the short and long term
• Data mining for leak detection and sensors for precise leak
localization
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4. Pollution and terrorist attacks
The issue:
• Pollution can threaten water ressources
• Terrorism can threaten water distribution
Real time monitoring is essential for effective operation
and early warning of potential issues
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SensorsSensors
Real time monitoring
Modeling

5. Storm and flooding
The issue:
• Storms can cause flooding, sewer overflow and pollution
The combination of network monitoring, weather
forecast, network modeling and optimization algorithms
helps to properly operate storage tanks and pumps in
order to reduce combined sewer overflow
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Optimization

6. Some thoughts…
First of all, build and maintain your assets!
Smart “something” comes afterwards
Cost & efficiency?
• Example for setting up a sensor network: 2,000 € for the unit,
2,500 €/unit of installation (digging, integration…), 15% of the
initial price for the annual operating cost (maintenance, energy,
communication, etc.). The TCO will be 6,000 €/unit over 5 years.
• Over a 1000 km network with a unit every 10 km,
the annual cost is 600,000€
• Monitoring and smart water cost a lot
when compared to the cost of the damages
(events are rare and limited)
• The water service supports only part of damages
(shared with insurance, NHS…)
For Veolia, the driver is not a cost nor efficiency issue
it is a matter of responsibility
• The regulation is also a powerful driver…
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Source : http://www.lindependant.fr
Water network not operated by Veolia