A smart water grid network for water supply management systems

Rural Water Supply Network

Towards a Reference Model for Water Smart Grid

Information and Communication Technology (ICT) provides two-way communication, data storing and analysis, sensing and system monitoring, and intelligence such as historical and predictive analytics. Today’s Energy Smart Grid initiative proposes a highly decentralized and flexible energy supply and distribution by taking advantage of ICT infrastructures. In contrast, many water utilities do not ...

Ant algorithm for smart water network partitioning

Applying ICT devices to WDS makes it possible to introduce also the new concept of Smart WAter Network (SWAN), as a key Smart City subsystem, improving the traditional management of WDS. The possibility of inserting remote-controlled valves and flow meters in a WDS allows to divide a water network into k smaller subsystems, in order to improve the management and protection of WDS. This study pr...

A Stochastic Model for Water Resources Management

Irrigation water management is crucial for agricultural production and livelihood security in many regions and countries throughout the world. Over the past decades, controversial and conflictladen water-allocation issues among competing municipal, industrial and agricultural interests have raised increasing concerns. Particularly, growing population, varying natural conditions and shrinking wa...

Adaptive water demand forecasting for near real-time management of smart water distribution systems

This paper presents a novel methodology to perform adaptive Water Demand Forecasting (WDF) for up to 24 hours ahead with the aim to support near real-time operational management of smart Water Distribution Systems (WDSs). The novel WDF methodology is exclusively based on the analysis of water demand time series (i.e., demand signals) and makes use of Evolutionary Artificial Neural Networks (EAN...