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Advance Water Management

Smart Water

IBM’s Corporate Social Responsibility (CSR)

Submitted by: Himanshu Mirdha

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Organizations will manage their environmental impactby addressing three critical resources:

CO2 emissions contribute to climate change, which impacts water systems.

Energy production results in CO2

emissions.

Water is needed to generate energy

and energy is need to provide water.

WATERWATER

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Something profound is happening….

INSTRUMENTED

We now have the ability to measure, sense and see the exact condition of practically everything.

INTERCONNECTED

People, systems and objects can communicate

and interact with each other in entirely new

ways.

INTELLIGENT

We can respond to changes quickly & accurately, getting

better results by predicting and optimizing for future events.

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Water Management – what do we mean ?

When you say ‘water’ there are many issues involved:

– Sources: traditional, alternative• Traditional: Lakes, Rivers, Aquifer, Wells• Alternative: Desalination, Recycled, Types

– Impact on the environment• Must monitor to be able to measure and know• Must be able to control in real-time

– Quality of water• Various quality based on usage : drinking, agriculture, industrial

– Recycling• Water purification for reuse in agriculture and industrial• Water purification to protect the underground water and rivers• Water reuse for residential use

– Wastewater• Protecting the environment• Monitor to prevent contamination

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Water Sources

Rivers and lakes

Underground water

Desalination

Water sensors and meters

Integrated View of Intelligent Water Management

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Asset Management with QoS Extension

Real-time Analytics

Historical Analytics

Water Network Design

Optimized Leakage ReductionOptimized Electrical PowerOptimal Water BlendingProactive Water Maintenance

QoS Specification

Purification plant

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Alternative Sources of Water – Desalination Plants

Must monitor to understand the impact of desalination on the environment. How do we get rid of the brine ?

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Fighting Floods

We need to be able to predict the weather within small areas. How can we help ? Require data collection.

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Fighting Draughts

We need to save water, find alternatives, control usage, predict the weather within small areas and conserve rain water. Optimization, simulation, and forecasting.

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By measuring, monitoring and managing environmental systems, decision makers will have more knowledge of how their decisions will influence the environment & business.

Managing & Monitoring Water Systems

Paraguay-Paraná River Basin, BrazilParaguay-Paraná River Basin, Brazil

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Smart Water Management system in residential areas

Machine Learning based water management to detect anomalies, analyze trends, understand behavioral models, and provide usage predictions and inputs to optimization.

Monitoring and integrate information from sewer and water systems in real-time

Collect and analyze information from water metering in real-time

Machine Learning based analysis

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Water Analytics for generating Usage Patterns, Detect Anomalies, Predict and Forecast Water Demand

Goals– Understand usage patterns to detect anomalies and predict demand – Distribute energy consumption to minimize cost based on the usage patterns– Adapt water pressure based on usage patterns

Technology solution– Machine Learning and analytics which analyze water usage data from smart metering and

smart valves/pumps generating reports and generating alerts when anomaly is detected Results

– Analytical reports, alerts, and dashboard based on smart metering data to understand usage patterns, applied clustering analysis and provided prediction

– Using GIS, map usage patterns over the geographic map based on household Scenarios

– Water utility command center receives alert, monitors and observe an anomaly in usage. Message is sent to customer

– Customer checks problem and fix it. High customer satisfaction.



IBM 200 mm and 300 mm wafer fabs – Water management

Challenge Reduce water consumption (and associated need for

energy, chemicals, maintenance and labor) to reduce operating cost and minimize environmental impacts

Leverage end-to-end data acquisition, storage and visualization techniques to monitor water usage and improve efficiency

Approach Implemented data collection and storage

infrastructure: sensors, IT network and servers Statistical process control techniques used to

continually analyze vast amounts of operational data and present information in efficient, concise interface

IBM’s Green Sigma™ methodology breaks down water usage by process:

– Dashboards convey key process indicators

– Identifies process improvements that reduce water consumption and provide other benefits, such as reduced electrical power consumption, heat recovery, cooling load reduction, process efficiency etc.

ResultsIBM has achieved over $3M in annual savings by reducing water usage by 27% and increasing manufacturing production over 30%

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Next Generation Hospital – Rambam – Technion – IBM Collaboration



Improving Patient Care Processes

The Goal: Improve Patient Care Processes in hospitals

The solution: - Three way collaboration – Rambam, Technion, IBM Research- Improvements based on advanced research capabilities- IBM OCR mechanism

Significant financial support Results are publicly available

The impact:- Ongoing improvements in hospital wards- Examples: Emergency room physical design, ward placement algorithm, ED

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Carbon management solution from IBM

The goal - Early adopters reap the benefits first

How do you measure and monitor information on energy efficiency consistently and efficiently? How do you demonstrate regulatory and policy compliance? From utility providers and governments, to chemical, petroleum, travel and transportation organizations, improving carbon management is increasingly critical. The carbon management solution from IBM and Oracle can help you implement a comprehensive policy to increase energy efficiency, and reduce materials and waste.

The advantage - A strategic plan for smart business practices

Regulatory mandates to reduce greenhouse gas emissions worldwide are compelling companies to look for new approaches to carbon management—from sourcing and production, to distribution and product afterlife.

The carbon management solution from IBM and Oracle is based on Oracle Business Intelligence Applications and can be tailored to your company's specific objectives. Our solution provides emission estimates in a consistent manner, with local and national compliance, across one or all areas of your business.

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The benefits - Smarter business practices for a smarter planet

Reduce greenhouse gas emissions and environmental impact across your organization's activities by monitoring your carbon usage.

Streamline your business processes using IBM® Green Sigma—a business strategy for carefully analyzing operations to enhance overall efficiency, increase quality, and add, change or eliminate activities and processes to improve overall performance.

Use dashboards to estimate emissions consistently across business travel, energy, distribution, manufacturing and compliance.

Collate data from disparate systems and departments into one reporting suite so you can comprehensively report your CO2 emissions to key stakeholders in a repeatable, auditable and consistent manner.

Achieve compliance with current and future local and national legislation requirements. Strengthen your brand image and competitive advantage by incorporating a commitment

to energy and environment policies into everyday operations. Attract and retain a high caliber workforce by practicing, and getting your employees

involved in, corporate social responsibility.

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