Smart Technologies for Water Resource Management: An Overview

Abstract

The latest progress in information and communication technology (ICT) and the Internet of Things (IoT) have opened up new opportunities for real-time monitoring and controlling of cities’ structures, infrastructures, and services. In this context, smart water management technology provides the data and tools to help users more effectively manage water usage. Data collected with smart water devices are being integrated with building management systems to show how much water is used by occupants as well as to identify the consumption areas to use water more efficiently. By this approach, smart buildings represent an innovative solution that enhances a city’s sustainability and contributes to overcoming environmental challenges due to increasing population and climate change. One of the main challenges is resource-saving and recovery. Water is an all-important need of all living beings, and the concerns of its scarcity impose a transition to innovative and sustainable management starting from the building scale. Thus, this manuscript aims to provide an updated and valuable overview for researchers, consumers, and stakeholders regarding implementing smart and sustainable technologies for water resource management, primarily for building-scale uses.

From Radio to In-Pipe-Acoustic Communication for Smart Water Networks in Urban Environments: Design Challenges and Future Trends

“…It is intended to provide some details regarding the possible applications, the sensors exploited, and the characteristics of the wireless communication channel. More exhaustive reviews on such topics can be found in the literature [2,4,6,[28][29][30][31].…”

“…As was presented in the previous Sect., SWGs deal with the management of water distribution networks [1]. As far as the communication network of such SWGs is concerned, it results from previous reviews [2][3][4][5] that the vast majority of the cases employ radio wave communication for information transfer between sensor nodes of the network. However, the review [1], among the various wireless techniques, also considered acoustic wave-based communication as a possible way to transfer information, since it is effectively a wireless communication technique.…”

“…In recent years, the paradigm of Smart Water Grids (SWGs) has arisen, in an attempt to improve the management of water resources through constant monitoring [1][2][3][4][5]. Such paradigm is enabled by the Internet of Things (IoT) technologies, which allow for network of smart nodes, deployed over an Urban Water Supply Network (UWSN), to continuously acquire information on the state of the UWSN.…”

IoT Innovations in Sustainable Water and Wastewater Management and Water Quality Monitoring: A Comprehensive Review of Advancements, Implications, and Future Directions

“…Despite the growing importance and progress of IoT technologies and the high demand for smart cities that require IoT applications in managing infrastructure, systematic reviews (SR) about using IoT applications in infrastructure management are few and far between [34], [35], [36], [37], [38], [39], [40], [41], [42], [43], [44], [45], [46]. While existing reviews have concentrated on specific dimensions of IoT applications in water management, such as IoT's role in stormwater management [45], leakage monitoring [36], and the implementation of intelligent utilities in urban contexts [41], [42], [43], [44], the demand for a more all-encompassing review is discernible.…”

Testing Thermostatic Bath End-Scale Stability for Calibration Performance with a Multiple-Sensor Ensemble Using ARIMA, Temporal Stochastics and a Quantum Walker Algorithm

“…Consequently, high quality of life in a green economy will only be possible by effectively orchestrating a great wealth of fused information, which will be created from an immense number of smart sensor networks. Smart sensors are already in demand in diverse areas of utilization, including modern energy systems, energy-smart buildings, water resource management in urban and farming applications, healthcare operations, as well as in environmental air-quality monitoring and processed food improvement [ 11 , 12 , 13 , 14 , 15 , 16 , 17 , 18 , 19 ].…”