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AQUADVANCED an innovative IT solution

AQUADVANCED helps water operators to reduce operational costs, control water quality, and save
water and energy. Its intuitive and modular interface gives operators a comprehensive view of the
water network performance in real time, and enables them to efficiently manage their distribution
networks. AQUADVANCED makes complex data actionable by gathering and analysing all the data
coming from GIS, SCADA, sensors, data historian, workforce management, customer relation
management in one single platform and turning it into a simple decision‐making tool. More
precisely, AQUADVANCED easily manages sectors by monitoring flows, pressure, water quality, and
energy. It offers advanced event management (leaks detection, pressure level drops) in order to
identify abnormal events and their causes, locate them accurately and monitor their resolution. The
software analyses hydraulic behaviour in order to anticipate failure risks and simulate the impact of
interventions. It also continuously monitors water quality throughout the water distribution
network, as well as energy performance and provides optimal energy operating strategies.

Figure 13 – Screenshots of AQUADVANCED interfaces

EU UrbanWater project

UrbanWater is a collaborative ICT project co‐funded under the 7th Framework Programme of the
European Commission. The project is expected to be completed in 2015. It seeks to create an
intelligent web‐based urban water management system for effective urban water management. The
platform will incorporate advanced metering solutions and real‐time consumption data to equip
water utilities with the information necessary for proper decision‐making.

By integrating water availability estimations based on weather prediction and surface water
reserves data, demand estimations based on household consumption data and consumption
patterns and models, the water distribution network data, as well as automatic billing capabilities
including adaptive pricing and customer engagement tools and using secure and cloud‐based data
management, both utilities and customers alike will be able to obtain the right information to effect
change in consumption patterns in urban areas.

Further information about this initiative is available at: http://urbanwater‐ict.eu/the‐solution‐2/

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