Fiware4Water scientific dimension What are the scientific challenges addressed by Fiware4Water? The water sector, the water utilities are a conservative industry. Consequently, it is hard for them to follow the quick evolution and the changes brought in the digital water sector. One of these changes for the digital sector is the use of Internet of Things (IoT). Internet of Things is a fancy word for including real time operational management of systems. One such type of system is a water system, a system managed by water utility. This system may involve water supply or water distribution, or wastewater, or even the communication with the consumers, which is being done through Smart Water. Our vision as Fiware4Water was to bring this advanced technology, the IoT technology to the water sector and help for the transition. The European Commission has started this with a big project where they created a platform for different sensors and different devices to talk to each other, which is called the FIWARE platform. So in Fiware4Water, we are bringing the FIWARE platform to the water sector. What are the excepted impacts on the water sector? The main scope of Fiware4Water is to demonstrate to water utilities a way of transition to real time operational management using advanced IoT, Internet of Things platforms. And this is what we expect that the impacts will be, they will see the cases we have in Fiware4Water as paradigms of this transition. Lydia VamvakeridouLyroudia KWR, University of Exeter Scientific and Technical Manager Back to content
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