The document describes the development of water management apps created by the Waternomics project. It discusses creating initial ideas and paper prototypes during the apps' childhood (months 4-8), developing features and testing prototypes during their teenage years (months 7-11), creating working prototypes connected to sensors during their 30s (months 10-18). It proposes a single platform that can serve diverse users and needs with customizable apps that can be built by users to address their specific requirements.

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Project co-funded by the European
Commission within the 7th Framework
Program (Grant Agreement No. 619660)
WATERNOMICS APPLICATIONS
PLATFORM:
WATER APPS FOR EVERYONE
CHRISTOS KOUROUPETROGLOU – ULTRA4

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CHILDHOOD OF APPS (M4-M8)
• Round table discussions
• Interviews with stakeholders
• Technical meetings at pilots
• Initial ideas

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• Features list
• Scenarios draft for D1.1
• Paper prototypes
• And 2 comic scenarios
APPS BECOME TEENAGERS (M7-M9)

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APPS ENTER THEIR 20’S (M9-M11)
• User tests
– 24 users involved
– 11 hours of discussions
– 3 languages
• Many ideas tested
– Some were rejected, others evolved
and some new ones came up
• Apps start to face reality

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APPS IN THEIR 30’S (M10-M18)
• First working prototypes
• First connections with sensors
• Support from Dataspace

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KEY OUTCOME
•A “One size fits all” solution
cannot help
•But there are many common
features among user types and
pilots
•So, how can we serve them all?

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INSPIRATION
• Where else do you see a diverse set of users
being served by a single sensors’ platform?
Do you see a pattern?

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…AND ANSWER
Why not use the same?

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ONE PLATFORM FITS ALL
•Serving diverse set of users
•Serving a diverse set of needs
•Integration with user management for
easy targeting of apps
•Categorization of apps for easy
discovery
•Home app for your most important
information

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THERE IS ONE MORE THING!
… and if all this is not enough…
Since we have so diverse needs, why not empower users to build their own
custom apps for their own needs?

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APP BUILDER
•A tool that allows everyone to build their
own applications with information they
need.
•It all works like a Lego structure!
•We give you the bricks (components)
•We give you a manual ( 3 steps process)
•And you create your app!
•And if you think other people will like it…
you can share it with them!!!

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LOOK HOW SIMPLE IT IS…
Step 1: Select a row
layout
Step 2: Select the
components
Step 3: Set-up details

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EXAMPLES
Rainwater harvesting system Bathrooms check

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MORE EXAMPLES
Home app Kitchen
analysis

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BUT THERE IS EVEN MORE
Comparisons app Alarms setup app

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AND NOT JUST GRAPHS…
News app
EPANET

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AND EVEN SILENT APPS
•Drought
monitoring
•Fault Detection
•Leak Detection

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CONTACT US FOR A DEMO
If you want to “dive in” the platform…
http://apps.waternomics.eu/waternomics

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THANK YOU
Christos Kouroupetroglou
kouroupetroglou@ultra4.eu
http://apps.waternomics.eu/waternomics

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waternomics.eu @waternomics_eu

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This project has received funding from the European Union’s
Seventh Framework Programme for research, technological
development and demonstration under grant agreement no
619660.
waternomics.eu @waternomics_eu
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