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Box 12: The readiness of Singapore’s smart water management system for
5G connectivity
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Singapore currently employs a smart water grid and supply management system called
WaterWiSe in cooperation with the Public Utilities Board of Singapore (PUB). WaterWiSe
provides PUB’s water supply network operations and planning teams with decision-support
services, including event detection (leaks, bursts, etc.), hydraulic and other system modelling,
operational/valve simulation and as a test bed to support further ongoing research into
leak and burst detection. It achieves this by using hundreds of sensors, feeding data into
data-analytic tools, that are deployed island-wide to not only detect pipe leaks, but to also
monitor the water pressure, flow and quality in the network.
The benefits for the city-state are that the system enables real-time remote sensing, ensures
faster response times, minimizes disruption to flows, reduces unaccounted water loss, and
supports planning and operations through accurate demand prediction and cost savings
via energy optimization. The sensors can be seen in Figure 16, along with a few of their
deployment destinations and part of the monitoring mechanism in the following Figure 17.
Figure 16: The WaterWiSe multi-sensor probe [xvi]
Figure 17: Deployment of the WaterWiSe multi-sensor probe [xvii]
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