Objective
European water utilities face many problems related to their 3,5 million km’s of distribution networks. Large parts of water distribution networks have to be rehabilitated requiring investments of € 20 billion/year. Prioritization and optimization of investments is needed urgently. In many countries, water quality needs improvement in order to reduce health risks and resources for water production and distribution must be used more efficiently. The European Innovation Partnership on Water has established priority areas related to the challenges in water supply distribution networks, focusing on resource efficiency, Smart Water Management and decision support systems. Although the technology components for Smart Water Management are available, the route to application is still uncertain. The main hurdles are: lack of integrated and open solutions; difficulty to comply with user and integration requirements; lack of clear and validated business cases for solutions; lack of business intelligence awareness and lack of political and regulatory support.
Project aims
1) To integrate and demonstrate 12 innovative solutions
2) To demonstrate 4 integrated solutions
3) To establish and guard integration and standardisation aspects
4) To establish business cases, deployment potential and market uptake routes
Solution
This project will overcome the hurdles by developing and demonstrating in 4 important Smart Water Management themes (water quality management, leak management, energy optimization and customer interaction). 12 innovative theme oriented solutions and 4 integrated (technological, financial, ICT, organisation, management) solutions will be demonstrated at 4 well-scaled and real-life demonstration sites in France, United Kingdom, Spain and The Netherlands. These solutions will be tested, validated and evaluated and business cases will be generated.
Consortium
12 innovative SMEs, 3 water utilities, 3 research institutes, 1 company and 2 platform organisations.
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FP7-ENV-2013-WATER-INNO-DEMO
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8019 BE Zwolle
Netherlands
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28033 MADRID
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RG1 8DB Reading
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59655 VILLENEUVE D'ASCQ
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WR5 2ZX WORCESTER
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7521 PA ENSCHEDE
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NR14 8FB NORWICH
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75015 PARIS 15
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1200 Vienna
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BL9 9HN BURY LANCASHIRE
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1221 CN HILVERSUM
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75001 PARIS
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3433 PE NIEUWEGEIN
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59000 Lille
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48160 DERIO
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S10 2TN Sheffield
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10001 Cáceres
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2970 HORSHOLM
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75014 PARIS
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59000 LILLE
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RG24 8PF Basingstoke
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