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Water Loss Management Through Smart Water Systems

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Part of the book series: Modeling and Optimization in Science and Technologies ((MOST,volume 17))

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One of the most basic challenges in urban areas is providing sustainable access to adequate quantities of quality water in order to sustain livelihoods, human well-being, and socio-economic development. Water poverty affects an important share of low income urban and rural population in the forms of limited, time-consuming and unsafe access to the resource as well as a high incidence of waterborne diseases. Universalizing access to potable water and sanitation by being efficient and avoiding waste of resources may be the most important challenge of water networks in future years. ‘Smart water’ consists in a group of emerging technological solutions that help water managers operate more efficiently and, in a smaller scale, also help consumers tracking and managing their water usage. The Internet of Things, cloud-based information storage and data analytics (Big Data) are at the core of that. A smart water system is based on a network of sensors embedded with electronics and software that allow getting real-time data of any measurable parameters such as level, flow, pressure, temperature, noise correlations or even water quality parameters, and make them available online. Furthermore, the management of data through statistical tools and algorithms can allow pattern recognition and modeling of the system, thus optimizing the operational performance of the water supply network and reducing pipe bursts, leakages and energy waste in the pumps.

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Sánchez, A.S., Oliveira-Esquerre, K.P., dos Reis Nogueira, I.B., de Jong, P., Filho, A.A. (2020). Water Loss Management Through Smart Water Systems. In: Patnaik, S., Sen, S., Mahmoud, M. (eds) Smart Village Technology. Modeling and Optimization in Science and Technologies, vol 17. Springer, Cham. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-030-37794-6_12

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