Dr.

Cameron Brooks – Director, Solutions and Business Development, IBM Big Green Innovations

Let’s Build a Smarter Planet:

Smarter Water Management
7th Annual Massachusetts Water Resources Conference
April 8, 2010

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Something profound is happening…

INSTRUMENTED INTERCONNECTED INTELLIGENT

We now have the ability People, systems and We can respond to changes
to measure, sense and objects can communicate quickly and accurately,
see the exact condition and interact with each and get better results
of practically everything. other in entirely new ways. by predicting and optimizing
for future events.

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Intelligent systems that gather, synthesize and apply information will

change the way entire industries operate.

Smart water Smart traffic Smart energy

Apply monitoring and
management technologies to
help optimize the availability,
delivery, use, and quality of
water as well as related
systems including energy and
chemical treatment.
Use real-time traffic prediction
and dynamic tolling to reduce
congestion and its byproducts
while positively influencing
related systems.
Congestion
Analyze customer usage and
provide customized products and
services that help to boost
efficiency from the source through
the grid to the end user.

Water
Energy grid

Chemicals
Energy

Carbon
Carbon emissions
emissions

Noise Energy
Energy pollution sources

Public
transportation Smart home

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Organizations need to be smart about understanding their total

environmental impact

WATER

Water stress
is growing
and needed to CO2 emissions
generate energy. contribute to climate
change, which
impacts water
systems.

ENERGY CARBON

Energy production
results in CO2 emissions.
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Water Management is an urgent and complex global issue

Agriculture, domestic and

industrial sectors impacted by
increasing demand and limited
supply

Infrastructure is aging and failing

Climate change is forcing drought

mitigation measures and flood
management strategies

Fragmented water management

domains and conflicting interests
of stakeholders

Worldwide energy needs drive

water needs, and vice versa

Regulatory frameworks force

decisions

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The need for progress in the way we manage water is clear

6x 45%
Increase in global water usage
since the 1900s; twice the rate
of human population growth.
1.1 Up to 45% of water is lost
due to leaks in an aging
water infrastructure around
the world.

billion
The number of people that

10,855
do not have access to safe
water according to The
World Bank.
2/3
Two thirds of the world's
population is projected to
Estimated liters of water it
face water scarcity by
takes to make a pair of jeans.
2025, according to the
United Nations..

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The Traditional Water Network - a 19th Century System

Aging physical infrastructure with

significant leakage

Limited information on real-time

status of the water availability &
quality

Limited/No sharing of information

within water regions, often causing
water stress for “downstream”
communities

Significant manual operation

Inability to effectively measure and

manage water related risk

“One barrier to better management of water resources is simply lack of data —

where the water is, where it's going, how much is being used and for what
purposes, how much might be saved by doing things differently. In this way, the
water problem is largely an information problem. The information we can assemble
has a huge bearing on how we cope with a world at peak water.”
Source: Wired Magazine, “Peak Water: Aquifers and Rivers Are Running Dry. How Three Regions Are Coping”, Matthew Power, April 21st,
2008
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The Smart Water Network’ - a 21st Century System

Information Technology Enables
Smarter Water Management

Sensing and monitoring of physical
infrastructure, integrated with proactive
asset management

Streaming data systems for critical
operations, enabling rapid, real-time
decision making

IT infrastructure to manage information
across multiple water organizations &
constituents, enabling system-level
decisions

Advanced analytics with predictive
capability and modeled decision support

All enabling more efficient operations

and providing decision support capability

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Smarter Water Management means enabling higher levels

collaboration and innovation across value chains and ecosystems

A lot more data is Access to this Allowing us to become

needed to fully information will ensure smarter in how we
understand, model and that we don’t just fix or consume and pay for
predict how water flows rebuild existing water.
around this planet – from infrastructure, but to do it
natural water sources, to better and smarter .
how it is consumed; and Recycled/Treated
what the impacts and
dependencies are on Natural Raw Clean
Sewage
other resources. Water Water Water Consumers
Treatment
Sources Transport Supply

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Smarter Water Management is critical at three “scales”

Natural scale Enterprise Scale

Water resource mapping
Water usage tracking
and availability
Water quality control

Water quality monitoring (into and within plants,
and management discharges)
(surface and subsurface)
Supply chain

Land use analysis optimization

Extraction monitoring
Energy management
(surface and subsurface) Utility scale
Business process

Flood control
Water quality and usage improvements

Discharge, combined
Metrics and management
sewer overflow

Asset management

“Smart levees” and levee
monitoring systems

Weather event
assimilation

Energy management

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Strategic Water Information Management Platform

Intelligence networks applicable to Enterprise Water

Management, Water Infrastructure Management,
Water Resource Management scales

Provides automated sensing of physical

environments

Provides water quality, quantity, integration, storage,

analysis, modeling, and a management dashboard
on a local or regional basis

Provides records management and reporting

capabilities for regulatory and compliance
requirements.

Provides energy usage information to pinpoint energy

efficiency opportunities related to water

Provides advanced asset management and

advanced meter management capabilities

Provide intelligence to proactively manage risk

related to extreme weather events

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Strategic Water Information Water Management platform usage

Integrated set of Stakeholders (as examples)

Usage and
technologies, data Water Contractors/
Discharge The public
and tools Authorities customers
(from multiple sources and systems)

Run-off
Leisure Local
Agriculture
industry governments
Quantity
Data types (as examples)

Federal Other water The

agencies agencies Environment
Quality

Environment/
Ecology
Collaborative uses (as examples)
Climate
Water
Water quality Water
quantity/
management allocation
Economic source mgmt

Habitat Public
Geology/ Research
conservation awareness
hydrology
Impact Land use
Energy data assessments Compliance
planning

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Benefits of an integrated, reliable, secure & scalable platform

Builds trust between Integrated set of
Reduced operational risk

different stakeholders - technologies, data - integration of drought
less “my data says this, and tools management, flood
your data says that”, control, pollution
greater disclosure management

Enables higher levels of
Enables coordinated

collaborative decision- system-wide response to
making issues such as climate
change and development

More rational water

management decisions -
Reduces redundant effort
greater likelihood of data on data collection -
being available as information more likely to
required to enable the be available and
best decision integrated when needed

Provides a “roadmap” for
Reduces marginal cost of

coordinated information future data collection and
systems development research exercises

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Water Resource Management

2) Alternatively, data may

1) Measurements of water flow, be captured by hand and
quantity and multiple dimensions of entered manually, or
water quality are captured throughout downloaded from a PDA
the area in question. Data are sent via or similar
wireless network to aggregation point

4) Data are also used

to populate models of
3) Data are error water flow, quantity
checked, aggregated and quality for the
and are displayed natural water asset on
geographically question, to generate
and/or via a console/ insights on its natural
dashboard operation and man’s
visualization impact on that.

5) The results can then be used

to inform decisions on land use
or other impacts such as
energy generation, or to
actuate infrastructure such as Mining

Annual crops

sluice gates or pumps. Residential

(soybeans/wheat)

Fo
Perennial crops re
st
(eg sugar cane)

Annual crops
(corn)
Pastures

Land use Energy generation Sluice gates

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River and Observatory Network for the Hudson

See video at http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=RFdoH0jWh6A

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SmartBay: Galway Bay, Ireland

The Next Generation of Advanced Coastal & Marine Monitoring & Management

• IBM Centre of Excellence for Water Management in Dublin

• Collaboration with the Marine Institute, Ireland
• A research, test and demonstration infrastructure for monitoring and managing aquatic
environmental data such as tidal flow, wave heights, temperature, and phytoplankton via
an integrated network of sensors, robotics and computational technology distributed
throughout the bay.

From Gaughan and Kolar, Journal of Ocean Technology (2009, submitted)

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SmartBay Solution for Galway Bay

Shared information/
Adapted from Smart Bay reference documentation
collaboration platform for
all stakeholders
(coastguard, fishing,
leisure, shipping etc)

Streaming real-time
intelligence to allow better
decision-support:
– Weather threats
– Pollution alerts
– Algal bloom
prediction
– Rogue waves, etc

See video at http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=n2XakurQCgU

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Smart Bathing Water Quality Monitoring Project with Ireland EPA

Developed in collaboration with Ireland
EPA, the portal provides up to date
information about bathing areas across
the country.

The map-based website, provides the

latest information, supplied by local
authorities, on compliance status with
EU bathing water quality standards at
the 131 designated bathing sites around
the country.

Anyone setting out for the beach will be

able to log on and see the latest results
of water quality along with details such
as lifeguard availability, blue flag status,
tides and weather forecast

Bathing water quality data that is

uploaded directly to the site by local
authorities will be used by the EPA, to
assess the overall compliance of a
bathing area with EU standards,

http://www.bathingwater.ie/

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Smarter River Basin Management:

Water for Tomorrow Project

Combines rich graphics

and dynamic mapping
capabilities

Enables users to
visualize the effects of
different management
scenarios on the overall
health of their river
basin

Use map technologies

similar to Google Earth
to locate and analyze a
local river basin

Enables collaboration
between colleagues
working to develop
sustainable water
resources policies

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Smart Levee Example – IjkDijk

• Netherlands project to understand what this
“instrumented” levee will “look and feel like” as
it breaks

• Multiple sensor types create a reference real-

time “signature” from inside the levee, as
hydraulic pressure builds up until the levee
bursts (last burst was October 2008). Also
tests:
– Effectiveness of different sensor types and
applicability to levee management
– Applicability of numerical models
“Because of the increasing complexity of
water management in densely built deltaic
• IBM is undertaking integration, working with regions…a more accurate and more
TNO (NL Government scientific research continuous insight into the functional quality
organization) of water management infrastructures will
become increasingly important…occasional
measurement and manual data processing
procedures will no longer be sufficient…”
Source: “The Ijkdijk” (Ijkdijk brochure)

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Analytics Driven Asset Management

Preventive Maintenance Demand Management

Develop analytics which can lower Understand water usage patterns to

the cost of preventive maintenance. support pricing and demand management.

Customer Service Lower Costs – Work Management

Develop analytics which can improve the Lower the operational cost of water
quality of service (uninterrupted, high utilities by effective crew scheduling
quality water) for water utility customers and optimal rolling stock use

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Smarter Stormwater Management - Optimizing Existing System Capacity

Innovative technologies such as High resolution weather and flooding models
Smart Manhole Covers are used are used to generate accurate flood maps with
to detect sewer flow levels specifics on impact areas
Wireless network links
monitoring devices to
central command center

Stormwater Management
Data can also drawn from more Command Center
traditional SCADA/sensors systems.

Advanced analytics and

optimization engines
generate recommended
actions for flood avoidance

Search for all assets of the

Type ‘natural channel’ with
Valves, pumps or inflatable
condition = 3 in this area.

Sewer system data can also be Results are highlighted in

blue dams are controlled
linked with asset & workflow tools All assets of the same
type in this area
highlighted in blue
dynamically to balance
to manage any specific inline sewer storage and
maintenance requests avoid potential overflows.

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Smart Water Network Management:

Facilitating a paradigm shift in how water networks are managed
Innovative technologies such as on-line leak
detection and water quality monitoring are High resolution weather models are used to
used to predict potential network generate accurate forecasts of supply & demand
interruptions

Wireless network links

monitoring devices to central
command center

Network Management Command Center

Increasing knowledge of real-time
customer use
Advanced analytics and
optimization engines generate
supply network plans

Search for all assets of the

Type ‘natural channel’ with
condition = 3 in this area.
Results are highlighted in
blue

All assets of the same

type in this area
highlighted in blue Predictive water treatment plant
production planning to reduce
Increased remote
overall supply cost
operation of valves &
pumps to automate
network
Network system data can also be linked with
asset & workflow tools to manage any
specific maintenance requests
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Smart Water Metering: managing customer water use in areas of

increasing water stress
IBM / partner install, upgrade
and/or network advanced
wireless meters in homes and
businesses.
Meters report as frequently as
every 15 minutes either via
cellphone or Wimax, or less
frequently via short range
protocol to a drive-by reader.
IBM installs or provides as a service
the main billing system, or can run
the entire billing service on an
outsourced basis.
IBM Maximo / SAP enables
meter management and
maintenance - meter
performance and failure
can be tracked remotely.

Meters can provide the home The system as a whole provides More accurate meters provide
or business owner with more granular data on usage better information in assets to
immediate data on water trends and can alert of immediate inform capital & operational
consumption. This is known and longer term problems. investment decisions
to promote water economy.
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Water Metering – Advanced Analytics

Machine-learning based techniques to detect anomalies, analyze trends, understand
behavioral models and provide usage predictions

Normal Consumption Low Consumption Anomaly

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Green Sigma™ methodology to address challenges systematically

Deploy
Define Metering & Green Optimize Control
KPIs Baselining Sigma TM
Processes Performance
Reporting

Green Sigma™ is an end-to-end solution aimed at reducing energy usage, water usage,
carbon emissions and waste generation throughout a company’s operations, resulting in:
– Lower environmental impact
– Increased efficiency
– Reduced costs

A Green Sigma™ solution includes:

– A Lean Six Sigma approach to define Key Performance Indicators, and to drive
continuous improvement over time
– An integration framework to capture, filter and present information from multiple,
disparate systems into an operational control dashboard
– An operational dashboard to monitor operational control and provide enterprise oversight
of energy usage, water usage, carbon emissions and waste generation
– Data hosting and management

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IBM Centers of Excellence for Water Management

Located in the Netherlands

Helping IBM clients and partners this center is initially
focused on collaborating
worldwide to develop enhanced with the providing Dutch
government and disaster
water management prediction and control agencies to improve
protection systems flood forecasting and
prediction modeling.

Leveraging IBM Research and

Located in Dublin, thisfacility
expertise in smart sensors, serious is focusing primarily on
gaming technology, 3D internet innovative research and
services for monitoring,
skills, and high performance managing and forecasting
environmental challenges such
computing to create realistic as the movement of pollutants
modeling and simulations. in fresh water, marine and
oceanic environments.

Serve as collaborative innovation Located in Montpelier,

hubs for addressing specific client France, this newest center will
focus primarily on using high
needs and developing additional performance computing to
water management offerings over monitor and forecast the
impact of climate change and
time. severe weather conditions on
water resources.

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We’ve only just begun to

uncover what is possible on
a smarter planet.
The world will continue to become smaller, flatter and
smarter. We are moving into the age of the globally
integrated and intelligent economy, society and planet.

By systemically managing water and energy use, as

well as carbon emissions, smart organizations will
realize true sustainability while achieving real business
benefits—driving growth at the individual,
organizational and population levels.

Let’s work together to drive

real progress in our world.
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For more information & materials

Smarter Water Management Thought

Leadership
http://www.ibm.com/smarterplanet/water

Smarter Water Management

Solutions Home Page
http://www.ibm.com/green/water

GIO Report on Oceans and Water

http://www.ibm.com/ibm/gio/water.html

IBM Water Management Pains

Summary Report
http://www-
935.ibm.com/services/us/gbs/bus/pdf/i
bm-water-pains-report-jan09.pdf

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