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city : strategy
smart : one
PROJECT KOMMUNAL 4.0 CONTRIBUTES TO DIGITALIZATION OF WATER INFRA-
SMART cities need SMART infrastructure
STUCTURE IN GERMANY. IN LONG TERM, INVESTMENTS TO PUBLIC WATER SECTOR INFRASTRUCTURE REACH € 7 MLD EVERY YEAR. MANY YEARS DEVELOPED SYSTEMS OFTEN REPRESENT THE MAJOR PART OF THE CITY PROPERTY. ITS 70% CONSIST OF THE WASTEWATER AND RAINWATER FACILITIES, SUCH AS SEWERS, TREATMENT PLANTS OR RAINWATER RETENTION SITES.
In the past, the design and proportion planning of sewerage networks carried out considering the evolution of population growth, industry or weather forecast for a very long period. From today’s perspective, some of these assumptions seems to be weak or even inadequate. Nowadays, water network operators have to deal with the optimization of the infrastructure in the view of climate change and public sector needs and wants. Finally, changes in legislation require general paradigm shift and change in approach to planning and operating these often-complicated structures. Adaptation to new circumstances is necessary. To ensure the flexibility and optimization, real-time, well processed and evaluated data driven operation and planning is the way to go.
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: Project KOMUNAL 4.0 The KOMUNAL 4.0 project is one of 16 selected projects out of a total of 130 registered, in the selection of the German “SMART SERVICE WELT” Ministry of Economy and Energy (BMWi). This project is part of the so-called „Digital Agenda“ of the Federal Government of Germany. Launched in April 2016 and is due to end in 2019. The project is being processed by a consortium of three technology companies and three academic institutions led by HST Hydro-Systemtechnik GmbH & Co. The goal of the project is to develop a digital data and service platform that would allow flexible design in the future and operating all water infrastructure based on an already built or newly created Internet network.
: Problem definition
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The current state of digitalisation development, Internet-based industry called as Industry 4.0 seems very inspiring. The principles, ideas and products as well as services can also be implemented into municipal water-infrastructure. Based on this idea, a project called KOMUNAL 4.0 was created which aims to implement a wide range of digitalisation into the public sector. The two main areas, such as wastewater management and drinking water distribution were selected.
Designing and project works in municipal water sector is usually at local level. For example, sewerage sizing systems are always suitable for one limited area, so the excessive rainfall in another area may lead to overloading a wastewater treatment plant or a relief chamber. Thanks to system integration of all infrastructure that goes beyond regional arrangements, better utilization of the wastewater treatment volumes and adequate operation strategies can be designed and selected as gover-
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