Integrated intelligent water-energy metering systems and informatics: Visioning a digital multi-utility service provider
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Khoi, Nguyen
Beal, Cara
Zhang, Hong
Sahin, Oz
Bertone, Edoardo
Vieira, Abel Silva
Castelletti, Andrea
Cominola, Andrea
Giuliani, Matteo
Giurco, Damien
Blumenstein, Michael
Turner, Andrea
Liu, Ariane
Kenway, Steven
Savic, Dragan A
Makropoulos, Christos
Kossieris, Panagiotis
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Advanced metering technologies coupled with informatics creates an opportunity to form digital multi-utility service providers. These providers will be able to concurrently collect a customers’ medium-high resolution water, electricity and gas demand data and provide user-friendly platforms to feed this information back to customers and supply/distribution utility organisations. Providers that can install low-cost integrative systems will reap the benefits of derived operational synergies and access to mass markets not bounded by historical city, state or country limits. This paper provides a vision of the required transformative process and features of an integrated multi-utility service provider covering the system architecture, opportunities and benefits, impediments and strategies, and business opportunities. The heart of the paper is focused on demonstrating data modelling processes and informatics opportunities for contemporaneously collected demand data, through illustrative examples and four informative water-energy nexus case studies. Finally, the paper provides an overview of the transformative R&D priorities to realise the vision.
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Environmental Modelling & Software
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Water resources engineering