Smart Technologies for Urban Water Systems
A special issue of Water (ISSN 2073-4441). This special issue belongs to the section "Urban Water Management".
Deadline for manuscript submissions: closed (10 August 2023) | Viewed by 23930
Special Issue Editors
Interests: water demand modelling and forecasting; water consumption smart metering and end-uses characterization; optimal management of water distribution systems; leakage detection; transient analysis of water distribution systems
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Interests: time- and frequency-domain modelling of transients in pressurized pipe systems; fault detection in water transmission mains; transient analysis of water distribution systems; leak characterization; use of machine learning for fault detection in pressurized pipe systems
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Interests: water distribution modelling; protection of water distribution networks from contamination events; urban drainage modelling; real-time control; sediment transport in sewers; sustainable solutions for urban drainage systems; flood control in urban areas; modelling of landslides
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Interests: water distribution system; calibration of hydraulic network; WDS management; leakage detection; coastal engineering
Interests: smart water systems; water distribution network modelling; management and monitoring; urban drainage systems; hydroinformatics; complexity science
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Interests: pipeline systems; advanced anomaly detection in pipe systems; transient dynamics analysis
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Interests: water demand modelling; probabilistic analysis of water consumption; water distribution systems rehabilitation/design and management; water systems optimization modelling
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Special Issue Information
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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Keywords
- smart water grids
- advanced metering infrastructures
- Information and Communication Technologies (ICT)
- Internet of Things (IoT)
- low-cost monitoring technologies
- hydroinformatic
- sensor networks
- non-intrusive load monitoring
- real-time monitoring
- dynamic and adaptive control
- artificial intelligence technologies
- wireless communication technologies
- big data analysis
- machine learning techniques
- data-driven approaches
- nowcasting and forecasting models
- advanced automation
- cloud computing
- digitalization
- cyber-security
- time series analysis and synthetic patterns generation
- optimal devices' placement
- rainwater harvesting
- energy recovery
- life cycle assessment (LCA)
- smart asset management
- integrated urban water management
- smart water management
- transient test-based techniques
- fault detection
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