Main developments and achievements (Indicative pictures of some main products and technologies developed in NAIADES are attached. The full details of all products are included in the allocated deliverables):
•School Dashboard; tool for raising consumer awareness focusing on young ages, citizens.
•NAIADES cloud-based IoT platform with innovative aspects of interoperability, security, modularity and scalability (D2.10).
o Using FIWARE context broker and FIWARE-based data models, to guarantee interoperability.
o Security: KeyRock authentication and KSI blockchain data integrity.
o Modular and scalable: Dockerized Tools and components for easy integration.
•Water management DSS: designed and developed, consuming incoming information from the components, depending on the use case, in order to produceing actions and alerts. (D7.2 & D7.3)
•The toolkits which have been developed during the project: Data Validation Module and the DCAs.
•The nine intelligent services that have been produced.:
o Short term water demand forecast (D5.6 – see attached image 1)
o Long-term water demand forecast (D5.6 – see attached image 1)
o Anomalies detection (including dedicated solutions for leakages and saline intrusion detection (D5.2 – see attached images 2, 12)
o Water observatory (D5.8 – see attached image 3)
o Water quality forecast (D5.10 – see attached images 4, 5)
o Weather forecasting toolkit (D5.4) – see attached image 6)
o Dynamical treatments suggestion for drinking Water Treatment plants (D4.10 D4.11 – see attached image 7)
o Data Fusion Middleware (D3.7)
o Decision Support System (D7.2 & D7.3 – see attached image 1)
•Prototypes
o Water well prototype for salinity intrusion case (D3.5 - see attached image 8)
o Fountain prototype for monitoring water quality (D3.5 - see attached image 5)
o Urban box IoT prototypes for monitoring soil moisture (D3.5 - see attached image 9)
o Water truck consumption prototype and app for monitoring irrigation (D3.5 - see attached images 10, 11)
Main innovation aspects:
•NAIADES solution is based on an innovative microservices architecture which allows facile maintainability, flexibility and an improved stability of the platform.
•New models like: Model-based big data generation of critical events for water distribution system optimization; Dynamic drinking Water Treatment Support Tool; Model for Predictive AI Analytics of water quality; Chemical concentration estimation model.
•New methods like Methodology for SDGs Compliance; Methodology for failure and leakage prediction, methodologies for water demand predictions in short and long term forecasting. A long-term water demand model was developed, with the aim of forecasting the water demand needs on a monthly and yearly basis. Moreover, a short-term water demand model forecasts on a daily basis (detailed methods are provided in D5.6).
Dissemination - Exploitation:
Dissemination efforts were pursued to maximise the global outreach of NAIADES, through social media, website, newsletters, work with leading publishers (Springer), collaborations with global organisations (EC, ETSI, ITU), participation in international events (ex. Digital Around the World) and collaboration with DigitalWater2020 Cluster. NAIADES reported 30 publications while also disseminated at Standards Developing Organisations. Despite Covid-19, partners attended 19 water-related events in person. NAIADES project organized the session ‘IoT Applications for the Water Sector’ with the DigitalWater2020 cluster.
For the proper exploitation of the NAIADES developments, the most relevant exploitable results (KERs) were defined and dedicated analysis, including value proposition canvas, pitch presentations and business models were made. The exploitable results were also presented in dedicated webinar, while the project participated in IWA World Water Congress & Exhibition. Four KERs have been considered as the most promising joint commercially exploitable outcomes, as:
•Cloud based NAIADES IoT integrated platform
•AI-based solutions for the water sector
•Blockchain-based Data Interoperability Layer
•Advanced decision support tools for water end-users
