SMART WATER MANAGEMENT IOT SOLUTION S TO WATER SCARCITY OFFERED BY THE IOT
Organizations, projects, and many initiatives are coming forward to control, regulate và monitor water consumption & cleanliness. There were times when all we could rely on was a set of a few techniques that promote water conservation. Those conventional methods are still followed in various projects. However, the Io T-based smart water management systems are taking water management operations more efficiently và optimistically.
Factors like continuous water supply, services, industrialization, etc., are necessary khổng lồ implement this công nghệ in the system. It boils down to more và more water companies considering Io T-based smart water management systems. These solutions are aimed at using innovative methods to lớn address various challenges in the water industry.
But how do they work?
Let’s understand how Io T changes smart water management solutions and their benefits for companies.
The global Smart Water Management market is forecast lớn reach US $13.8 billion in 2021 to lớn US $22.4 billion by 2026, at a CAGR of 10.1%. Io T-based smart water management systems offer a simplified approach khổng lồ water industries for the usage và prevention of water resources. The Io T-based smart water management systems support various water industries’ sustainable use & conservation of water. Io T smart water management solutions help monitor và control water consumption & identify leakage in real-time.
What are Io T-Based Smart Water Management Systems?
The mạng internet of Things technology introduces advanced mechanisms that allow water management boards lớn automate various operations. Different types of water sensors, such as smart water meters, Io T water flow meters, smart irrigation controllers, and Io T water valves, help water companies keep track of water pressure, level, temperature, flow, and many other factors in real-time. The information obtained using Io T-enabled smart water management systems allows companies khổng lồ predict water consumption levels in the future.
It helps them make more informed decisions on regulating water usage & effectively make changes in the utilization of water resources. Smart Io T water management systems also minimize costs associated with the operations, including construction, maintenance, và so on.
Also Read: How lớn Develop Io T-based Environmental Monitoring System?
Functions of Io T-Based Smart Water Management Systems
The rage for Io T-based smart water management systems in the water industry is soaring for all the right reasons. Since technology is mobilizing water projects with automation, it is only getting more efficient. Implementing this công nghệ has much to lớn offer, from water quality testing to lớn data analytics. On top of everything, automation & optimization pave the way for cost savings. So, companies are gradually moving toward Io T development services lớn build this robust system.
Do you want to lớn build your own Io T water management solution? If you’re planning lớn simplify your business operations with this emerging technology, the first thing to vì chưng is hire Io T developers. It is also imperative to lớn revise your plan và do complete research. When on the lookout for Io T development services, make sure khổng lồ specify your requirements for the custom solution. Keeping these checkpoints in mind will help you find the right partner for your Io T development journey.
Io T applications - Céline Bernard - Inside sales and kinh doanh - Connected Energy Division at tcnducpho.edu.vn - March 22, 2022
Water covers 70% of our planet. If you think this figure is reassuring & wonder why should we care about such a plentiful resource, then think again.
Water scarcity is a growing issue. According lớn several UN reports, it will directly affect nearly 20% of the human population by 2025. By 2040, roughly 1 in 4 children worldwide will be living in areas of extremely high-water stress. This is not limited khổng lồ developing countries. Indeed, freshwater—the one we drink, bathe, grow our vegetables with, and cook with—is incredibly rare. Only 3% of the world’s water is fresh water, và two-thirds of that is hidden away in frozen glaciers or unavailable for use.
According khổng lồ several NGO’s, about 1.1 billion people worldwide lack access khổng lồ water, & a total of 2.7 billion find water scarce for at least one month of the year. Climate change and a growing population are the main reasons for this but they aren’t the only ones: collapsed infrastructure và distribution systems, pollution, conflict, overloaded water systems, & poor management of water resources are just a few of the human factors that are increasingly denying people their right to safe water and sanitation.
And when water is scarce, sewage systems can fail & the threat of contracting diseases like cholera, typhoid fever and other water-borne illnesses surges. Ecosystems around the world are suffering. And the price of water becomes more expensive which indirectly influences the countries’ economies.
The Io T has the ability to lớn lessen this worrying picture. Smart Water Monitoring and Management Systems, based on the combination of sensors, big data and AI technologies, can provide to lớn water utility operators, farmers và companies the ability to lớn measure, monitor và control their water distribution networks as well as the chất lượng of the water distributed. Less waste, less consumption, & a better management of the water’s unique can improve dramatically the preservation of our planet’s resources.
Let’s take a look at how Smart water Management systems can help addressing the growing lack of available fresh water…
What are Smart Water Management systems & how vị they work?
Smart Water Management is the activity of planning, developing, distributing & managing the use of water resources using an array of Io T technologies which are designed to increase transparency, and make more reasonable & sustainable usage of these water resources.
It applies lớn multiple sectors: agriculture, farming, industry, services, cities… Monitoring water consumption in houses, checking water levels, checking the unique of drinking water, detecting chemical leakages in rivers around plants, tracking pressure variations along pipes or checking water quality in aquariums are a few examples of the many useful applications. Microcontrollers & sensors —such as ultrasonic sensors, flow sensors, temperature, salinity, conductivity, humidity, pressure, or luminosity sensors— placed on pipes or pumps measure the water levels, flow, temperature and chất lượng of the water in real time. Message alerts & data generated by the sensors are transmitted over the mạng internet to a cloud server, where it is processed, analyzed, sometimes with the help of AI, & sent to a terminal for the user to lớn consult.The system can then control and regulate the usage and unique of water resources as well as facilitate the maintenance of the default equipment.
5 benefits of Smart Water Management Systems
Here are five specific benefits of Water management technologies & activities, and how they can help address the growing problems of water scarcity.
1. Reducing waste of water-intensive industries
Agriculture, manufacturing or nguồn production use very high volumes of water. Farming alone accounts for 70% of all water consumption. The same sector is liable for wasting approximately 60% of that water according lớn the UN’s Food và Agriculture Organization.Producers have lớn contend with increasingly erratic weather patterns which result in hotter & drier growing seasons.
Real-time water metering & other applications such as smart irrigation systems or crop water management systems can help farmers reduce waste while maintaining soil health, improving water conservation, và increasing crop yield:- Water flows, humidity, và temperature data collected by Io T devices, can be used to lớn train machines to trace treatment processes.- It can be used lớn evaluate the impact of an individual treatment process.- The data collected using soil and light sensors can be analyzed to lớn recommend the quantity of water & fertilizers required in a field.
Libelium—a client of tcnducpho.edu.vn— is one of the leading companies in Io T solutions for the agriculture. Their devices cover a wide range of applications, from water distribution network management, water consumption/metering, irrigation water management, flood/disaster management, water losses and leak detection, water storage (tanks, reservoirs, etc.), Aquarium Management & more.
These installations are designed to lớn measure the essential aspects of a plantation, reducing the environmental impact thanks to lớn responsible use of energy & natural resources, & by improving soil fertility & maintaining water quality.
In this case study, Libelium explains how their connected sensors & actuators allow an organic farming plant to lower costs & increase the quality of production:Precision agriculture & automatic irrigation in organic crops with Libelium’s Io T technology.
Libelium have calculated that overall, their solutions could help reduce the water consumption per capita by 10%, reduce leakage by 20%, reduce billings accordingly, predict potential failures & diminish the maintenance costs, while helping better manage water pressure & consumption. All of which allowed their clients to lớn augment their revenue.
DFM Software Solutions, another one of tcnducpho.edu.vn’s client, has developed highly specialized hardware and software solutions such as soil moisture probes, for farmers in South Africa, victims of conditions that are drier than ever before. The system monitors critical data round the clock & continuously logs water levels, salinity, oxygen, & plant root development. Based on the data provided by soil moisture probes, farmers can optimize the management of their crops and soil và use water resources more efficiently.Read the case study: Battery solutions for smart agriculture - DFM use case.
Read our article for more innovative solutions in the farming industry: How can Io T help us solve our ecological issues? Agritech.
2. Monitoring water chất lượng to fight pollution và diseases
Manufacturing & other human activities can be responsible for polluting rivers và the groundwater table. Sensors and Io T công nghệ for real-time monitoring and control can help monitor và prevent pollution và even improve the water quality.
To vày so, Io T systems connected with AI-based software are deployed to capture standard parameters for monitoring the water quality: p H, Total dissolved solids (TDS)—including Oxygen, the Oxidation reduction potential (ORP) or the Temperature of different types of water. Using machine learning algorithms, the devices can be trained to lớn predict the unique of water, monitor the effectiveness of a sanitizing agent or adjust the water treatment plan accordingly.
In the UK for example, outbreaks of the Legionnaires’ disease have been reported over the past few years. It is caused by Legionella, a bacteria that develops in uncontrolled soil and water environments. It infects the body toàn thân through inhalation of contaminated water droplets and can cause a potentially fatal khung of pneumonia. Lớn combat this illness, Wavetrend, created legionella detecting sensors that use tcnducpho.edu.vn batteries. The Io T actively monitors hot & cold outflow, và will activate an alert on high-risk temperatures that could lead lớn spread of the bacterium, enabling quick action to be taken. Read the complete case study here: Helping to protect UK’s water from Legionella with their temperature sensors.
3. Improving the efficiency of water systems
Smart water systems allow the collection, treatment, distribution and recycling of water. These systems, often deployed underground, can leak, freeze, or breakdown. These systems are widely deployed on infrastructures nowadays.By monitoring the pressure, flow, moisture, temperature, time difference between points & other parameters directly within the systems, the Io T can facilitate maintenance prediction and avoid breakage, leakage, and equipment downtime.
One such example is Fuji Tecom’s“Quatro Core” LC-5000, a system powered by tcnducpho.edu.vn batteries, that can automatically pinpoint the location of a leak by calculating the time difference of the detected noise caused by the water leakage between sensors. A combination of 4 sensors allows for complete accuracy of the system & distance calculation from the measuring point. The sensors are also used as a radio repeater, extending the wireless communication, & avoiding poor connections due to lớn obstacles. The solution can record up to lớn 6 routes simultaneously & display the data on one screen, which expedites maintenance operations. Find out more about their product in our case study: Fuji Tecom is offering more efficient operation thanks to an innovative water leakage detector.
4. Creating awareness of household water use thanks khổng lồ smart meters
Many households are guilty of wasting water, without really knowing how or how much a change of behavior could benefit them.Most utility providers have now deployed smart meters to easily & remotely monitor and bill consumption. The information is also readily available khổng lồ final users, which is a real incentive. Individual consumers can now make savings by lowering their water bill while preserving water supplies on a daily basis.
Techem, is the European leader in individual water và heating metering in collective housing. The company created an innovative smart reading system for utility meters connected to over devices wirelessly per OMS throughout a building. These smart readers send consumption và status info per mobile communication via cloud to the Techem data center which then automatically creates billing & energy reports for the properties.Not only does the system offer precise và automatic monitoring and billing, but the residents are informed of their exact consumption & are subsequently incentivized to reduce consumption. The combination of billing & consumption monitoring verifiably reduces heating và water consumption by about approximately 20%. Read the article “Techem- providing value to lớn residents with smart metering” và the case studyand the case study “Battery solutions for smart utility metering systems - Techem case study”.
Similarly, in Saudi Arabia where drinking water is a scarce resource, Io TSens developed a network of Watchmeter data loggers. The system monitors consumption patterns, without having to lớn break into water mains lớn install an inline-meter, thanks lớn the detection of high-frequency vibrations in the water distribution network. The result is that customers can monitor, control —and reduce!—their own consumption. Find out more in our case study: Battery solutions for smart water networks - Io Tsens use case
We discussed further how the Io T can be used in Smart Cities to lớn help us solve our ecological issues. Head over here lớn read the article: How can Io T help us solve our ecological issues? Episode 3 - Green cities.
5. Providing running water through innovative solutions all around the worldManaging water is not just about delivering it efficiently. Sometimes it is about delivering it to lớn all. In many developing countries, many people vày not have easy access lớn running water. Water utility infrastructures suffer from lack of investment, lack of public water points, irregular delivery services. Chlorine pills are expensive và unreliable. As a result, people with irregular or low incomes are faced with daily hardships in procuring water.
City Tapshave developed an innovative solution lớn address the problem: the first prepaid water service, CTSuite. The software & pay-by-phone solution relies on a smart and prepaid water meter. Customers can pay money with their phone on their water trương mục using mobile Money. When the account is charged, water becomes automatically available until the money runs out. The Smart Prepaid Water Meter measures and sends water usage data in near real-time. It also provides the water utility with live key hydraulic & commercial indicators and identifies thefts và leaks to lớn reduce Non-Revenue Water (NRW). Find out more about this project we proudly contributed to “City Taps: when Io T empowers people with a fundamental human need - access to lớn water”.
Smart water giải pháp công nghệ brings transparency and improved control to lớn the whole water supply chain, from freshwater reservoirs khổng lồ wastewater collecting và recycling. By allowing a better management of the production, distribution and consumption of water & enabling smart water treatment practices, the Io T is widely contributing lớn preserving our scarce resources. Over the years, tcnducpho.edu.vn has become the go-to brand to lớn power multi-technology meters for the water industries.We are proud lớn power this movement for tomorrow!
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