Innovative Roadmap for Smart Water Cities: A Global Perspective †
Abstract
:1. Introduction
2. Issues in Urban Cities
2.1. Urbanization
2.2. Water Infrastructure That Is Undervalued
2.3. Living Condition
2.4. Strengthening of Institutional Capability
2.5. Technical Advancement
2.6. Water Logging
2.7. Water Smart City Approach
Water-Smart City Benefits
- Integrating water and green spaces into urban areas to create places where people want to live, work, or play is the first step in creating beautiful locations where people want to live, work, and play.
- Increase in the value of properties near open water and green space.
- The goal is to reduce the danger of flooding and to safeguard and enhance the quality of ground and surface water.
- Reduce the urban heat island effect and noise, and enhance air quality, to create a healthy city.
- Restoring reduced groundwater levels and improving soil moisture.
- Promoting and enhancing local biodiversity and natural environments.
- Give the community a much-needed water supply.
- Raise public awareness of and enhance knowledge of the management and utilization of runoff from their development.
3. Methodology for Smart Water City
- Acquisition and integration of data is the first step (e.g., sensor networks, smart pipes, and smart meters).
- Radio transmitters, wireless fidelity (WiFi), and the Internet are examples of data delivery methods.
- Geospatial modelling and analytics (either via the use of GIS, Mike Urban, Aquacycle, AISUWRS, or urban groundwater sustainability) is the third part of this section (UGROW).
- This section deals with the actual processing and archiving of data.
- Visualizing and making decisions (e.g., web-based communication and information systems tools).
- Data and information return to cities’ technological services and end users (e.g., tools for sharing information on water and on services).
3.1. Smart Meters
3.2. Communication Modems
3.3. Information Systems Based on Geographic Data (GIS)
3.4. Computing in the Cloud
- Data gathering and monitoring (SCADA)
- Integrating SWM: Improving Water Management in Cities
4. Results and Discussion—Global Case Study
4.1. The Netherlands—Amsterdam
Wet-Proofed City of Amsterdam
4.2. Denmark—Copenhagen
5. Conclusions
Author Contributions
Funding
Institutional Review Board Statement
Informed Consent Statement
Data Availability Statement
Acknowledgments
Conflicts of Interest
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Chicago/Turabian StyleKeriwala, Neha, and Anant Patel. 2022. "Innovative Roadmap for Smart Water Cities: A Global Perspective" Materials Proceedings 10, no. 1: 1. https://doi.org/10.3390/materproc2022010001