Objectif Drinking Water Treatment, and Sewage Water Treatment are the two main processes which determine the quality of drinking water, our rivers and our seas. Utilities for such treatment are numerous and, depending on local requirements, range from the simple to the highly sophisticated. These would include plants with state-of-the-art process control. They provide services for the public as well as specific industries and are operated by both municipalities and private organisations. What, however, appears to be well defined and local objectives to be mastered with mature and proven technology becomes more and more difficult, leading to increasingly frequent situations where the biological sewage treatment process cannot cope with the amount of waste. This can result in untreated waste water flowing into a river, or stopping the production of drinking water because of polluted raw water.Utility operators are beginning to recognise that they will have to broaden their view to monitoring large areas if they are to understand the interdependencies between pollution sources or environmental conditions such as the weather, and their effects on the control of the treatment process. However, the currently available SCADA systems are not able to deal with such data.Although techniques and methods to interpret continuous measurement data for current situation assessment, diagnosis, trend detection and decision support are applied for other process industries, the environmental monitoring, management of water resources and waste water effluents, and their effects on very specific biological treatment processes has been widely ignored. Unlike other process industries where insufficient monitoring and control in the worst case leads to diminished profits, bad control and mismanagement of the water resources has an immediate impact on the life of everybody.Consequently, the objectives of EM2S are to develop and install:- Regional environmental management systems to provide global real-time information.- Water quality monitoring and assessment methods for providing on-line quality information, allowing automatic, remote and intelligent monitoring stations.- Active decision support for operators to adapt the process control to sudden changes in the environment.The main focus of EM2S is on the integration of emerging software technologies in a framework that will allow easy interfacing to existing SCADA systems and - through one of the partners - integration in a new generation of such systems for the Water Industry. In particular this implies the use of:- Advanced algorithms for sensor data fusion and validation such as Kohonen Maps and Fuzzy Logic.- Knowledge-based and case-based reasoning techniques for decision support.- Presentation techniques addressing all levels of users, from operator to authorities.- An agent-oriented software framework integrating these techniques allowing efficient adaptation to and configuration of specific application requirements.Two applications will be set up in the project to demonstrate and validate the tools and concepts developed. Validation goes beyond technical evaluation of hardware and software: it will provide a clear view on the usability and acceptability by the user, it will indicate the commercial benefits, and it will identify impacts on general regulatory procedures.The measures for success are reduced down time of the drinking water production processes, more stable and longer living biological treatment processes, reduced communication costs for remote monitoring stations and compliance with increasingly stricter legislation of providing environmental data to the authorities. Champ scientifique natural sciencescomputer and information sciencessoftwareengineering and technologyenvironmental engineeringwater treatment processesdrinking water treatment processesengineering and technologyenvironmental engineeringwater treatment processeswastewater treatment processesnatural sciencesearth and related environmental scienceshydrologyengineering and technologyelectrical engineering, electronic engineering, information engineeringelectronic engineeringsensors Programme(s) FP4-ESPRIT 4 - Specific research and technological development programme in the field of information technologies, 1994-1998 Thème(s) 1.7 - Emerging Software Technologies Appel à propositions Data not available Régime de financement CSC - Cost-sharing contracts Coordinateur Lyonnaise des Eaux - Citi Contribution de l’UE Aucune donnée Adresse Rue Du Fonds Pernant 14 60471 Compiègne France Voir sur la carte Coût total Aucune donnée Participants (5) Trier par ordre alphabétique Trier par contribution de l’UE Tout développer Tout réduire COMPUTAS Norvège Contribution de l’UE Aucune donnée Adresse LEIF TRONSTADS PLASS 6 N-1301 SANDVIKA Voir sur la carte Coût total Aucune donnée Cnrs Delegation Regionale Nord-Pas de Calais -Picardie France Contribution de l’UE Aucune donnée Adresse Avenue Charles Saint Venant 33 59046 Lillle Voir sur la carte Coût total Aucune donnée Danfoss A/S Danemark Contribution de l’UE Aucune donnée Adresse Nordborgvej 81 6430 NORDBORG Voir sur la carte Coût total Aucune donnée Hitec Norvège Contribution de l’UE Aucune donnée Adresse Lagerveien 8 4033 Forus Voir sur la carte Coût total Aucune donnée Vki - Water Quality Institute Danemark Contribution de l’UE Aucune donnée Adresse Agern Allé 11 2970 Horsholm Voir sur la carte Coût total Aucune donnée
