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The Battle of the Water Calibration Networks (BWCN)

The Battle of the Water Calibration Networks (BWCN)

Following the Battle of the Water Networks (BWN) in 1985 and more recently the Battle of the Water Sensor Networks (BWSN) I’m happy to announce the Battle of the Water Calibration Networks (BWCN):
The BWCN calls for teams/individuals from academia, consulting firms, and utilities to propose a calibration methodology and apply it to a real water [...]

Water pressure at my home connection

Water pressure at my home connection

A few weeks ago I had a conversation with an American colleague regarding the maximum water pressure at home connections. He was amazed to hear that the water pressure at my house is about 9 bars. To show him I was not mistaken I connected a pressure gauge in my garden and took a few [...]

Bluebox Event Detection System – under the hood

Bluebox Event Detection System - under the hood

In the past year I have seen a few press releases by WhiteWater Security (WWS) regarding their WaterWall product:
WaterWall™ is a revolutionary end-to-end water security management system, designed to give decision-makers and water security operators an unprecedented level of decision-making confidence in the event of a water crisis. From prevention and detection to intelligent response [...]

xpswmm

xpswmm

XPSWMM by xpsoftwareis said to be complete software package for modeling stormwater and wastewater flows and pollutants. It may be used by scientists, engineers and resource and asset managers to simulate natural rainfall-runoff processes and the performance of engineered systems that manage our water resources.
 
xpswmm is used to develop link-node and spatially distributed models that are applied to [...]

BackSense – contamination source detection software

BackSense  - contamination source detection software

BackSense is new methodology to identify the possible sources location and time frame of a contamination that may cause the trigger of a set of water quality sensors that are part of an Early Contamination Warning System (ECWS). The basic idea of BackSense it to identify all the networks nodes that can “reach” a specific [...]