Making waves: A vision for digital water utilities

Arnell, Magnus; Miltell, Maya; Olsson, Gustaf

doi:10.1016/j.wroa.2023.100170

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“…Digitalization can help to improve efficiency and reduce costs by streamlining administration and management procedures, facilitating the monitoring and control of resource use and status, and making it easier for administrations, stakeholders, researchers and citizens to access all this information, allowing for more transparent, accountable and democratic management [19]. Along these lines, Arnell et al [20] identify a number of benefits associated with digitization in water utilities, including helping utilities to be predictive and proactive, using models for monitoring and decision support, helping to raise customer awareness of the value of water, and being financially sustainable through optimal operation and sustainable investments.…”

Section: Digitalization In Water Servicementioning

confidence: 99%

“…Furthermore, in the context of water utilities, several authors identify significant advantages of digitalization, such as helping to improve efficiency and reduce costs, facilitating the monitoring and control of resource use, and facilitating access to information by administrations, stakeholders and citizens, allowing for more accountable and democratic management, helping to raise customer awareness of the value of water, and being financially sustainable through optimal operation and sustainable investments [19,20].…”

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confidence: 99%

“…The publication of rankings of municipalities could encourage local authorities to improve communication tools and interaction with citizens in order to achieve a more open, accountable, and participatory government [21] (See Figure 1). [1,3,4,[6][7][8][10][11][12][13][14][15][16][19][20][21][22][23][24][25][26].…”

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Transparency and Digitalization in Water Services: Reality or Still a Dream?

Zafra-Gómez,

Garrido-Montañés,

López-Pérez

et al. 2024

Water

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The provision of public services, mostly by local governments, has been widely analyzed in the scientific literature. The relevance of these services has generated an incipient demand for information on the part of citizens, which makes it necessary for the bodies responsible for their provision to present adequate levels of transparency. In this context, digitalization is a crucial tool for providing information to citizens and, therefore, contributing to improving the levels of transparency of those organizations that provide public services. Among these, the drinking water supply service stands out, which is crucial for well-being and sustainable progress, and whose analysis is of vital importance, especially in countries such as Spain affected by factors such as climate change and urbanization. In this way, the aim of this paper is to analyze the degree of transparency of the companies providing water supply services in Spain, as well as their degree of digitalization. To this end, a relationship will be established between the Transparency Index of Public Enterprises (INDEP) and the Strategic Project for Economic Recovery and Transformation (PERTE), which measure the degree of transparency and digitalization, respectively. This relationship will be established for a sample of 59 companies responsible for water supply. The main results derived from this study show a wide margin for improvement on the part of the companies analyzed, both in terms of transparency and digitalization, as the vast majority of these companies show a medium–low degree of compliance in both aspects.

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Section: Digitalization In Water Servicementioning

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Transparency and Digitalization in Water Services: Reality or Still a Dream?

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Garrido-Montañés,

López-Pérez

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Water

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“…Digital applications emerge and benefit at all levels of societies and businesses, that is, from component level to cross-sectoral systems (SWAN Forum, n.d.). However, making larger impact and realizing the larger vision of digitalization requires integrating solutions on systemic level (Arnell et al, 2023). One such example is digital twins.…”

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“…An automated and continuous data connection requires soft digital infrastructure, such as standards, data models, policies, and so forth, and technical digital infrastructure such as standardized information and communication protocols, networks and services, storage, and sufficient bandwidth (Arnell et al, 2023; Barricelli et al, 2019; Schleich et al, 2017). There are several ways of automating the data transfer between the physical system and the virtual copy in a digital twin system.…”

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Automated data transfer for digital twin applications: Two case studies

Molin,

Wärff,

Lindblom

et al. 2024

Water Environment Research

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Digital twins have been gaining an immense interest in various fields over the last decade. Bringing conventional process simulation models into (near) real time are thought to provide valuable insights for operators, decision makers, and stakeholders in many industries. The objective of this paper is to describe two methods for implementing digital twins at water resource recovery facilities and highlight and discuss their differences and preferable use situations, with focus on the automated data transfer from the real process. Case 1 uses a tailor‐made infrastructure for automated data transfer between the facility and the digital twin. Case 2 uses edge computing for rapid automated data transfer. The data transfer lag from process to digital twin is low compared to the simulation frequency in both systems. The presented digital twin objectives can be achieved using either of the presented methods. The method of Case 1 is better suited for automatic recalibration of model parameters, although workarounds exist for the method in Case 2. The method of Case 2 is well suited for objectives such as soft sensors due to its integration with the SCADA system and low latency. The objective of the digital twin, and the required latency of the system, should guide the choice of method.Practitioner Points Various methods can be used for automated data transfer between the physical system and a digital twin. Delays in the data transfer differ depending on implementation method. The digital twin objective determines the required simulation frequency. Implementation method should be chosen based on the required simulation frequency.

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A Brief Survey on Exploring the Application Areas and Scope of ChatGPT

Demirok,

Özbayoğlu

2024

Engineering Cyber-Physical Systems and Critical Infrastructures

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Making waves: A vision for digital water utilities

Cited by 8 publications

References 25 publications

Transparency and Digitalization in Water Services: Reality or Still a Dream?

Transparency and Digitalization in Water Services: Reality or Still a Dream?

Automated data transfer for digital twin applications: Two case studies

A Brief Survey on Exploring the Application Areas and Scope of ChatGPT

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