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Figure 51 – Schematic Representation of Smart Water Management Technologies and Tools

Source: McIntosh 2014
Smart Water Management Technologies

Smart Water Management technologies are already currently applied to many different areas of
water management (Figure 49). These technologies when applied to cities, help acquire reliable data
and enhancement to operations and safeguard proper decision making. In this context, many of
these innovative ICT tools have been developed to shape next‐generation urban water
infrastructure systems to improve performance, increase efficiency, reduce costs, decrease
redundancy, as well as ensure negligible environmental impacts.

Figure 52 – Current Implementation of Smart Water Management Technologies and Tools

Source: Hauser 2012
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Smart Pipes and Sensor Networks
Smart Pipes incorporates multi‐functional sensors that can sense strain, temperature and pressure
anomalies, as well as measure water flow and quality during service, to provide operators with

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37 For more information: http://www.isws.illinois.edu/gws/sensor/smartpipe/

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