The Waternomics project is a research project funded by the European Commission to explore how ICT can help households, companies, and cities manage water more efficiently. The project has involved developing new technologies and a methodology to provide personalized water consumption and availability information to help with decision making. Pilot tests of the approaches were conducted in Greece, Italy, and Ireland. The project has generated ideas for new products and services, pursued additional research, and involved partnerships between the nine participating organizations from four countries.

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Project co-funded by the European
Commission within the 7th Framework
Program (Grant Agreement No. 619660)
THE STORY SO FAR
SANDER SMIT – BM-CHANGE

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RECAP WATERNOMICS
Research question: How can ICT help households, companies
and cities manage water more efficiently?
Goal: Provide personalised and actionable information on
water consumption and water availability to individual
households, companies and cities in an intuitive & effective
manner at relevant time-scales for decision making
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Architecture Research & Development Pilot execution Evaluation
Consortium: 9 partners, 4 countries, 4 SME’s
Pilots: Greece, Italy and Ireland
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Domains
Technology
MethodologyBusiness
WHY
WHAT
HOW

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TECHNOLOGY 4
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METHODOLOGY 5
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Exploitable
results ER1 – Flow meter
ER2 – Acoustic Leakage Detector
ER3 – Fault Detection Diagnosis
ER4 – Water Information Platform
ER6 – Methodology
ER7 – Training
ER8 – Drought Monitor
ER9 - Marketplace
Results so far
• Generated over 50 ideas for value propositions
• Two partners together requested public funding for further development innovation
• Two technical tests with two interested business partners at their facilities
• One investigation for patent started
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New products & services
Additional research
PARTNERS

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THANK YOU
info@waternomics.eu
www.waternomics.eu
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