turningIBM & Smarter Water Insights

Technology

into value

26th September 2012

Nigel Broomhall – Industry Solution Executive

INTERCONNECTEDINSTRUMENTED

The world is becoming smarter.

INTELLIGENT

Water Challenge:

Whether too much or not enough, the world needs a smarter way to think about water

Three Major Technology Shifts that Will Change the way we View the World

+ StreamComputing

+ Visualisation

For decades we've plugged computers into computers.Now we can plug them into the real world.

The Water Problem is Largely an

INFORMATION PROBLEM.

Lack of Data is a Significant Barrier…

…how much might be saved by doing things differently.

Where the water is, ..where it's going..

..how much is being used and for what purposes…

Data by itself is just the start.

Measuring, Monitoring, Modeling and Managing

MeteringMeteringSensingSensing

Real Time Data Integration

Real Time Data Integration

Real Time + Historical Data

Real Time + Historical Data

Data Modeling + Analytics

Data Modeling + Analytics

Visualization + DecisionsVisualization + Decisions

Data modeling and analytics to create insights from data to feed decision support and actions

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Feedback to user and data source;Incentives and actions to change behavior

Comparison of historical data, with newly collected data

Data collection

Data Integration

Source: IBM Corporate Strategy

Most organisations are at this stage.

So IBM is continually investing in applied innovationOur Centres of Excellence (CoE)..

MontpellierHigh performance computing to

monitor and forecast the impact of climate change and severe

weather conditions on water resources.

Burlington, USGreen Sigma process

improvement methodologies and advanced operational intelligence

system to optimize water efficiency, water quality, water

energy, and water treatment solutions.

NetherlandsCollaborating with the Dutch government and disaster control agencies to improve flood forecasting and prediction modeling.

IrelandInnovative research and services for monitoring,

managing and forecasting environmental challenges such as the movement of pollutants

in fresh water, marine and oceanic environments.

..to create The Smart Water Network’ –

a 21st Century SystemSensing and monitoring of physical

infrastructure, integrated with proactive asset management

Streaming data systems for critical operations, enabling

rapid, real-time decision making

IT infrastructure to manage information across multiple water organizations & constituents, enabling system-level

decisionsAdvanced analytics with predictive capability and modeled decision support

All enabling more efficient operations and providing decision support capability

IBM Case Studies – The Hudson River

Visualising the unseen riverhttp://www.bire.org/approach/reonoverview.php

Smarter Water: SmartBay Portal – Galway Bay

• Sea conditions

• Tourism information

• Ecosystem education

• Government policy

• Renewable energy

• Coastal safety

• Fisheries

• Coastal technology

• Fine scale weather

• Pollution monitoring

Bringing together the people and data to better manage a large scale marine environment

http://www.marine.ie/home/services/operational/SmartBay/SmartBay+Research+Projects.htm

Provides up to date information about bathing areas across the country.

Anyone can see the latest results of water quality at their favourite bathing spot 

Details about lifeguard availability

Blue flag status, tides and weather forecast so that both Irish people and tourists will have information about safe bathing areas;

http://www.bathingwater.ie/epa/home.htm

Integrated Ireland Bathing Water Information System

Drinking Water: Detection of Waterborne Pathogens

First-line detection

Proof of water quality over time

Real-time, on-line, continuous monitoring

Real-time data to manage operational risk

Long-term data for trend analysis

Pulling together all aspects of drinking water production into one place

Some IBM Smarter Water Clients

We’ve only just begun to uncover what is possible