WISDOM
The WISDOM project integrated innovative technologies and services to enable efficient resource and demand management schemes in the water sector and induce changes in consumers' behaviour.
Aims
The Water Analytics and Intelligent Sensing for Demand Optimised Management (WISDOM) project aimed at developing and testing an information and communication technology platform that would allow water companies to better manage data from water networks. The overarching goal was to put in place this infrastructure to reduce water and energy consumption.
The project considered all the stakeholders involved in the water value chain, from water utilities companies to local authorities and end users. In doing so, it helped to understand the problems faced by the water industry from each stakeholder's perspective.
Outputs
At the end of the project, water suppliers’ operations had been optimized in terms of cost, water and energy consumption. In terms of technology, the WISDOM project also brought the water sector up to the same standard as the energy sector.
The first roll-out of smart meters in Cardiff was conducted by Welsh Water in the context of the project. The data from those smart meters is now exposed to customers via in-home displays and web and mobile applications that were developed in Cardiff. The aim is to raise public awareness and to achieve behaviour change by allowing water users to track and learn more about their water consumption.
Project Team
Partners
- Advantic Sistemas y Servicios sl
- Cardiff University
- Centre Scientifique et Technique du Batiment
- City of Cardiff Council
- D'Appolonia S. p. A.
- Dwr Cymru Welsh Water
- IDRAN Ingegneria e Tecnologia srl
- Imperial College London
- Intel Corporation (UK) Limited
- Provincia della Spezia
- Società Acquedotti Tirreni S. p. A.
Key publications
- Carboni, D., Gluhak, A., McCann, J.A. and Beach, T.H., 2016. Contextualising Water Use in Residential Settings: A Survey of Non-Intrusive Techniques and Approaches. Sensors 16(5), p.738
- Howell, S., Rezgui, Y., Beach, T., Zhao, W., Terlet, J., and Li, H., 2016. Smart Water System Interoperability: Integrating Data and Analytics for Demand Optimized Management through Semantics. Presented at: ICCCBE 2016: 16
th International Conference on Computing in Civil and Building Engineering, Osaka, Japan, 6-8 July 2016. Proceedings of ICCCBE 2016: 16th International Conference on Computing in Civil and Building Engineering. - Howell, S., Rezgui, Y., Beach, T.H., 2017, Integrating building and urban semantics to empower smart water solutions, Automation in Construction 81, pp.434-448 http://doi.org/10.1016/j.autcon.2017.02.004
- Terlet, J., Beach, T.H., Rezgui, Y., 2016. Smart Meters and In-Home Displays to Encourage Water Conservation through Behavioural Change, Presented at: the 18th International Conference on Sustainable Water Management, London, United Kingdom, 25-26 February 2014. Proceedings of the 18th International Conference on Sustainable Water Management.
- Zarli, A., Rezgui Y., Belziti, D., Duce E., 2014. Water analytics and intelligent sensing for demand optimised management: the WISDOM vision and approach, Procedia Engineering 89, pp. 1050-1057 https://doi.org/10.1016/j.proeng.2014.11.224