Smart Technologies for Urban Water Systems

Dear Colleagues,

Thanks to the widespread implementation of digital information and communication technology (ICT), our cities are progressively turning into “Smart Cities”as the critical infrastructure components and services, including city administration, education, healthcare, public safety, real estate, transportation, and utilities become more intelligent, interconnected, and efficient. Among the various fields of application, ICT can be successfully implemented to improve monitoring, control and management of urban water systems, namely water distribution and drainage networks. The application of ICT enables constructing a digital twin capable of following the operation of the original system in real time. This yields significant benefits in ordinary operational scenarios for various purposes, including management of:

• demand, service pressure, leakage and pumping systems in water distribution networks;
• pollutants and combined sewer overflows in urban drainage networks;

Significant benefits can also be achieved in extraordinary scenarios such as those associated with the identification of anomalous events, e.g., contamination and pipe bursts.

As the digital transition is in progress, increasingly modern and sophisticated algorithms, devices and technologies are being developed and deserve to receive the attention of the scientific audience of the journal “Water”, in the context of the present Special Issue.

Dr. Stefano Alvisi
Dr. Caterina Capponi
Prof. Dr. Enrico Creaco
Dr. Attilio Fiorini Morosini
Dr. Carlo Giudicianni
Dr. Silvia Meniconi
Dr. Carla Tricarico
Guest Editors

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