SmartWater 2020

SmartWater2020: Comprehensive design and implementation of a networked music performance system

Dates: 12/2017 – 05/2020
Funded by: : European Territorial Cooperation (ETC) Interreg V-A Programme GR-CY 2014-2020
Project Coordinator: Marios Polycarpou (KIOS, University of Cyprus)
PI for FORTH: P. Tsakalides
Funding: total : € 907,000 , FORTH-ICS cost/funding: € 200,000

Summary: The The action "Smart Water Networks for Loss Reduction" (SmartWater2020) concerns the modernization of four water supply organizations in Cyprus and Crete, through the development of smart software and smart devices to monitor the network for leaks and quality problems, as well as the creation of an innovative control system of network pressure in real time.
Specifically, in the context of the act:

Smart software will be designed and developed by the partners with the aim of early diagnosis of problems such as leaks and contamination, thereby enhancing the ability of water utilities to manage the ever-increasing flow of data from state-of-the-art sensors to monitor their networks. an innovative network pressure control system will be implemented in real time using automatic valves. These will result in the reduction of water losses and the cost of non-billed water, through the reduction of leak detection time, the early diagnosis of water quality problems, and the more efficient regulation of pressure in the various zones of the network. The Water Supply Councils of Limassol and Larnaca, the Municipal Water Supply-Sewage Company of Malevizio, as well as the Water Development Department of the Ministry of Agriculture, Rural Development and Environment of Cyprus are participating in the operation. Beneficiaries of the improvement of the quality of water supply services will be more than 350,000 inhabitants in the areas of the project's activities. The technical-scientific part of the project will be undertaken by two renowned research centers in Greece and Cyprus: the "Koios" Center of Excellence for Research and Innovation of the University of Cyprus, which specializes in intelligent monitoring and control of critical infrastructures with 20 years of application experience in drinking water networks , and the Technology and Research Foundation's Informatics Institute, which specializes in intelligent signal processing and water resource management and control applications.

The main outputs of the operation include:

• the installation of new sensors to measure pressure, water quality and consumption
• the development and implementation of an intelligent software for network monitoring and control the design of new methods to reduce networking costs and
• the study of using moving sensors that float in pipelines for fault detection.

Training actions will increase the capabilities of human resources, and through the Open Science strategy, the results of the project will be disseminated to a wide range of stakeholders. Through cross-border cooperation, the risk of integrating cutting-edge technologies is reduced and scientific cooperation to transfer know-how between partners is enhanced. As an added value of the project, it is the training of the staff of the organizations in new technologies, the interconnection of research and industry, and the creation of new jobs in the project areas.
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