Benefits of digitalisation for water utilities: watch the webinar recording

KWR WATER, the Dutch research institute for the drinking water sector and one of the 14 partners of the Fiware4Water project, is organising a series of 4 webinars to highlight the benefits of digital water. Their second webinar, held on 23 September focused on Fiware4Water and the digital water future, and demonstrated the potential of the Fiware ecosystem for water utilities and also small and medium entreprises.

A clear overview of digitalisation in the water sector - starts at 6’40Lydia Vamvakeridou-Lyroudia, Senior Scientific Researcher & Programme Director Watershare in KWR explained with simple words what digitalization, integration, interoperability mean for the water sector, and why is it so important today, linking it with EU strategy, development of smart cities and the digital transition that started in other sectors such as the energy sector. And then narrowing it down to explain what the Fiware4Water project is.

An illustration: Intelligent control for wastewater treatment Plant in Amsterdam (Fiware4Water demo case) - starts at 28’05Alex van der Helm, Consultant Water Technology in Waternet presented specifics on Fiware4Water Demo case #3, whose aim is to help Amsterdam WWTP to faces challenges of climate change and population growth by developing data driven control strategies and decision support based on newly to be developed AI models and data fusion.

 https://vimeo.com/461289662/328586f17b