DEMOCRATIZING WATER CONSUMPTION MONITORING SENSE...

DEMOCRATIZING WATER CONSUMPTION MONITORING

SENSE × ANALYZE # KNOW ÷ ACT

Spiros Athanasiou IMIS/Athena RC

Contents

1. Project facts 2. Water chal lenges 3. Motivation 4. The DAIAD approach

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Project facts

P r o j e c t f a c t s

DAIAD is an FP7 project

o Full title: Open Water Management – from droplets of participation to streams of knowledge

o Instrument: STReP

o Objective: ICT-2013.6.3 ICT for water resources management

o GA: 619186

o Duration: 42m (3/2014-8/2017)

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P r o j e c t f a c t s

Member of the ICT for Water Cluster

SmartH2O s o c i a l c o m p u t i n g f o r e f f i c i e n t m a n a g e m e n t o f w a t e r c o n s u m p t i o n

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DAIAD r e a l - t i m e w a t e r m o n i t o r i n g a n d b i g w a t e r d a t a a n a l y s i s

iWidget i n t e g ra t e d s u p p l y -d e m a n d m a n a g e m e n t

Wa tERP o p t i m i z e w a t e r / e n e rg y u s e a c r o s s w a t e r s u p p l y

I CEWater S W M m a n a g e m e n t , D S S a n d d e m a n d m a n a g e m e n t

UrbanWater c l o u d s y s t e m f o r w a t e r m a n a g e m e n t

I SS-Ewa tus i n t e g ra t e d s u p p o r t s y s t e m f o r w a t e r u s a g e

Wa ternomics c o n s e r v a t i o n a w a re n e s s a n d l e a k d e t e c t i o n

EFFINET o p e ra t i o n a l c o n t r o l , r e a l - t i m e m o n i t o r i n g , d e m a n d m a n a g e m e n t

WISDOM r e a l - t i m e w a t e r m o n i t o r i n g a n d b i g w a t e r d a t a a n a l y s i s

P r o j e c t f a c t s

Consortium assembled on excellence, multi-disciplinarity, and balanced participation of RTD, SMEs and water stakeholders

Athena is an RTD organization and ICT integrator focused on diverse data-intensive research (Coordinator)

Bamberg has multi-disciplinary research and applied experience in interventions for resource consumption

Amphiro is a unique SME with domestic water monitoring products

Fraunhofer ISI has theoretical and practical experience in water demand modeling and sustainability

Waterwise is a leader on social empowerment for water preservation

AMAEM is a water utility with heightened water management challenges

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Water challenges

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Let us introduce you to water

70%

Ναϊάδες naiads

The human right to water entitles everyone to sufficient, safe, acceptable, physically acceptable and affordable water for

personal and domestic uses

The Right to Water

SUCCESS!

70%

Localized

Changing

Do you know how much water you use?

I am average! Do I need to change?

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> 50% self-identi f ied as “average” water user 1/3 self-identi f ied as “ low” water user

No idea about actual water use

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Do you know how much water it takes to:

We consider water as a perishable resource

Why?

Water is cheap and rightly so!

The human right to water entitles everyone to sufficient, safe, acceptable, physically acceptable and affordable water for

personal and domestic uses

The Right to Water

No pricing incentives

50% of EUs domestic

water is not metered

sporadic water bills

We have no stimuli and incentives to

change our behavior

1970s: 12-15% 2001: 73%

2.7-22% reduction in fuel consumption

26.9% increase in physical activity

Got it! So we need stimuli to change our water use

In your face grumpy cat!

In order to provide effective stimuli to consumers,

we need data

But we do not have the necessary data.

Why?

Water meters are not enough – total consumption every

few days/months

Example: someone in the car did not wear a seatbelt last

week

OK, so why not get better data from water meters?

Well…

Frequent, highly granular, accurate, non-aggregated, real-time

Water uti li ty: No thanks, I am just fine!

Public Sector: Money? Now?! ?

Consumer: Huh?

So, to provide stimuli that affects consumer behavior and leads to self-induced changes in water use, as well as

financial benefi ts for all, we must first provide better quali ty water consumption data.

But the water meters we have cannot provide the data we need. The cost to improve them and provide data wi th better

granulari ty and frequency timely provided where and when water is used, is simply too great for them, and wi th a questionable return on investment. Water uti li ties are perfectly happy wi th how they measure and bi l l water

consumption, so why change? The public sector alone cannot also handle the costs.

WWAGD?

(*) What Would Alexander the Great Do?

Empower Consumers!

Motivation

M o t i v a t i o n

Let’s see how we moni tor consumption for electrici ty

Smart meters wi th highly granular data, low-cost off the self moni toring devices, multiple services to convey knowledge, i ntegrated in smart homes and mobi le devices

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M o t i v a t i o n

How about water?

Aggregated data every few months, sing le point metering, no personal moni toring, paper bi l ls and reports, stagnant stakeholders “ i f i t ain ’t broke, don’t f ix i t ”

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M o t i v a t i o n

Electrici ty & Water do not mix

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M o t i v a t i o n

Is the smart water meter enough?

o How do I measure hot water consumption? [energy]

o How do I measure consumption at the point of use? [stimuli, types]

o Is ‘real-time’ truly real-time? [latency, detail]

o How are data transmitted to end-user interfaces? [stimuli]

o Who pays for the SWM? [shared-investments? ROI?]

Smart water meters (SWM) are complementary but not enough; they cover sing le point metering but not moni toring.

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M o t i v a t i o n

We don’t have detai led water consumption data, nor the means to exploi t i t

Water Demand Management is based on highly aggregated data and crude assumptions providing limi ted insights (who, when, where, why, what)

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Interventions and stimuli for water consumption sti l l paper-based and at best electronic versions of highly aggregated information

M o t i v a t i o n

We need the data f irst!

o Create real-time and detailed water consumption data

o Devise means to manage and extract knowledge

o Create interventions and stimuli that exploit this knowledge

o Apply new data and insights in WDM

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Welcome to DAIAD

The DAIAD approach

Naiads o In Greek mythology, Naiads were

nymphs that presided over fountains, wells, springs, and other bodies of freshwater

o Each Naiad protected a specific fresh water source, e.g. Limnades (for lakes) and Potameides (for rivers)

Who is DAIAD?

Data + Naiad = Daiad! o A new type of fresh water

nymph, called Daiad, which symbolizes the project’s objectives

o Daiad presides in all residential water sources, monitoring every drop of water, guiding humans towards a water saving culture, and ensuring that water is well used 10/9/2013

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Our idea

o Decouple metering from monitoring

o Consumers self-adopt low-cost water monitoring

o Harness this data and knowledge for stakeholders

o Make consumers the foundation for sustainable changes in water use

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Empower Consumers

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Consumer Benefi ts

o Emphasis on the shower (2nd largest energy use)

o Cost savings from water use (22%)

o Cost savings from hot water use (440 kWh/year)

o Maybe CO2 credits (work in progress)

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Pays itself in a few months!

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Our objectives

o Develop low cost real-time, multi-point water consumption monitoring

o Research consumer-oriented and intuitive knowledge delivery mediums

o Research and develop big data management for large scale, real-time water consumption data

o Devise and support novel resource/demand management strategies, including corresponding pricing and incentive schemes

o Perform extensive and in depth real life user trials

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T h e D A I A D S y s t e m

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T h e D A I A D S y s t e m

DAIAD @ feel will provide the missing real-time water consumption data. You simply install it in a water faucet once, no power needed. Just use water as you normally do and get instant data!

Low cost, real-time water moni toring

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T h e D A I A D S y s t e m

DAIAD@home will convert water consumption data to knowledge for consumers and utilities. A simple piece of software, install once and forget!

Consumer analysis and recommendation services

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T h e D A I A D S y s t e m

DAIAD@commons will empower consumers through social innovation towards sustainability. Share your water consumption data with others, form a community, and gain insights together

Manage and analyse water consumption for groups

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T h e D A I A D S y s t e m

DAIAD@utility will enable the application of real-time water consumption data towards novel Water Demand Management strategies. Use highly-granular water consumption data to overhaul water management and pricing

Manage and analyse water consumption for WDM and stakeholders

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T h e D A I A D S y s t e m

DAIAD@know will convey knowledge to consumers to induce behavioral change. Mobile phone, tablet, or a web application? Pick your favorite and get insights on your water consumption.

Interventions to convey knowledge and stimuli

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Early DAIAD integrated system ready!

o End to end data flow: sense, transmit, store, view

o Mobile apps (iOS, Android)

o Commercially available by July 2015

o Portable aquarium to showcase the prototypes

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Demo in a few

minutes

DAIAD prototype

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amphiro a1

Energy-autarkic water sensor Self-instal led in shower Integrated LCD for real-time i n si tu i nterventions ETHZ spin-off

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Energy-autarkic (no batteries!)

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Prototype Development

o Simultaneous and collaborative effort in Athens, Bamberg, and Zurich

o Micro-generator (increase output)

o BT4.0 integration

o Rapid prototyping (Arduino)

o BT4.0 APIs

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Prototype Development

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Prototype Development

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amphiro b1

Increased energy harvesting to power RF Better accuracy (±5% at 12 l/min) Programmable LCD for real-time in si tu i nterventions Open BT API

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Inf luencing water use (determinants)

o Our resource consumption is affected by pricing and non-pricing determinants

o Pricing: obvious!

o Non-pricing: age, income, location, weather..

o Our resource consumption is also split to elastic and inelastic

o Inelastic is the absolute minimum (e.g. drink water, sanitation)

o Our goal is to enable consumers to self-induce changes in their water use!

o How?

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Interventions

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Interventions

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1. Current/real-time/in-situ feedback systems

2. Historical/analytical feedback systems

3. Psychological nudges/Comparison features

Water as

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Cloud ready!

o Cloud infrastructure in place (IaaS) (Synnefo/Ganneti)

o VMs available, SW deployed, early benchmarking/results

o 64 cores/ 192GB mem/ 10TB storage

o Will be part of HELIX PaaS/SaaS (Greek Research Data Infrastructure)

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Early Crowdfunding Campaign

Test the waters and seek funding for mass Amphiro b1 production (BT enabled) Successful ly raised 30K and gained worldwide exposure for the project

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User Trials (12monhts)

o Alicante, Spain

o Simulates deployment by a water utility (top-down)

o Deploy DAIAD, provide support to consumers

o Access to 60K smart water meters (early data, compare accuracy, integrate in analysis)

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o St. Albans, UK

o Simulates uptake by a consumers (bottom-up)

o Hand out equipment and provide electronic-only support through social channels

o Evaluates social impact, community engagement and dynamics towards water saving

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DAIAD is an Open Knowledge project

o All software provided with an open source license (github.com/DAIAD)

o All deliverables and content provided with a Creative Commons Attribution license

o All data generated provided with an Open Database License (see labs.publicamundi.eu)

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Be a part of DAIAD!

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Be a part of DAIAD

In DAIAD we believe in open innovation and participation as the cri tical means to improve how we moni tor , understand, and use water

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Join us!

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@ DAIAD_EU www.daiad.eu

DAIAD is a research project funded by European Commission’s 7th Framework Programme

Thank you!