EventLab–Online Water Quality Monitoring for Smart Water Networks Optiqua EventLab is a solution for real-time monitoring of water quality in networked applications such as drinking water distribution networks. EventLab is designed for deployment as a high density sensor network, with distributed sensor nodes connected to a central server for data collection and processing. A network […]
Research to tackle ‘grand challenges’ for water sector gets £3.9m boost A new £3.9million research project has been awarded to ensure the UK maintains a clean, sustainable water supply for the future. The project – led by the University of Sheffield – will help the UK water sector tackle key challenges, including population growth, ageing […]
A month scientific visit From France to the United Kingdom Elias Farah, PhD student in Civil Engineering on the subject “Use of the Smart Water System for the detection and localization of water leakage – Application to SunRise demonstrator” at University Lille I – Sciences and Technologies – Laboratory of Civil Engineering and geo-Environment, spent […]
Syrinix hosts delegation from Hong Kong Hethel based engineering company Syrinix recently hosted a delegation from the Hong Kong Water Supplies Department. In conjunction with Professor Dragan Savic of the University of Exeter, Syrinix was delighted to visit a site where TrunkMinder has been deployed in Reading that is part of the Smartwater4Europe project… To […]
Vitens is nominated for a Aquatech Innovation Award 2015 in the category ‘Not-yet-to-market’ with CAGIS: Real-time Customer Alert GIS, Vitens. CAGIS is a geographical operations dashboard displaying customer interactions (phone calls, tweets) and sensor alerts used by the operations department to identify events as pipe leaks and water quality problems much faster, ideally before a […]
Network of online sensors monitors Burgos water quality 24/7. The city of Burgos is one of four demonstration locations in the SW4EU project. One of the focus areas in the Burgos demonstration site is the detection of anomalies in water quality and integration of this information with other data streams into the water management solution […]
Mr. Jorge J. Malfeito, the R&D Director of ACCIONA Agua, attended the recent ACQUEAU workshop on Making Water Smarter, held in Paris on September 16th. The workshop offered a deep insight into real-time systems and water management. Monitoring system, sensors, mapping, data management, low energy communication tools will be the main topics addressed by the […]
Acciona Agua has validated the nano::station from s::can at its R&D facilities in El Prat del Llobregat. Different experiments to assess the response of s::can sensors to sudden changes of water quality were carried out by spiking different substances into the medium. As a result, nano::station presented a rapid response to change of salinity, turbidity […]
Dr. Steve Mounce, from University of Sheffield, presented his paper “Cloud based machine learning approaches for leakage assessment and management in smart water networks” at the Computer and Control for the Water Industry 2015 on Wednesday September the 2nd The 13th Computer Control for Water Industry (CCWI2015) conference was organised by De Montfort University in […]
This future has a TWIST in the tale! Matt Hawkins explains how big data and neuroscience will revolutionise the water industry Technology is advancing faster than ever and our lives are quickly becoming entwined with our devices. Take smartphones for example, we all have one. Whilst sat on our desks they are soaking up data […]
