Trevor Hill, Graham Symmonds

The Smart Grid for Water

How Data Will Save Our Water and Your Utility

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Produktbeschreibung

Smarter Water ¿ Increase Revenue ¿ Decrease Costs ¿ Delight Customers ¿ Preserve Our Most Vital Resource Solving the Water Crisis With Data Supply-side engineering - massive reservoirs, colossal water diversion schemes, pumping rivers across mountaintops, and even desalination - are relics of a bygone era in water management. The environmental and financial costs are simply too high. No supply-side solution can match the simplicity, resilience and effectiveness of a data-driven demand-side management program that reduces consumption, identifies losses, increases the life of our existing infrastructure and improves the financial capabilities of our utilities. The development of the smart grid for water is, for the first time, providing water managers with a complete understanding of not only how much water is used, but where and when. The 21st century water manager needs to manage the flow of data and information as well as the flow of water. Our future depends on it.

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Produktdetails

• Verlag: Advantage Media Group, Inc.
• Seitenzahl: 160
• Erscheinungstermin: 25. März 2013
• Englisch
• Abmessung: 246mm x 147mm x 16mm
• Gewicht: 390g
• ISBN-13: 9781599323893
• ISBN-10: 1599323893
• Artikelnr.: 37452509

Autorenporträt

TREVOR HILL is a leading voice for water scarcity management. He has led several successful water businesses, most recently founding Global Water FATHOM- a software-as-a-service company providing geospatial billing, customer service platforms and data-driven utility optimization analytics. He has a degree in Mechanical Engineering from Canada Royal Military College in Kingston, Ontario.

Inhaltsangabe

FOREWORD ACKNOWLEDGMENT LIST OF FIGURES PREFACE WHY WE NEED SMARTER WATER
RESOURCE AND FINANCIAL SCARCITY SUPPLY-SIDE WATER MANAGEMENT FINANCIAL
SCARCITY A COMBINED RAPID RESPONSE SYSTEM FOR RESOURCE AND FINANCIAL
DROUGHT THE CERTAINTY OF UNCERTAINTY WATER AVAILABILITY GROWTH WHY DO WE
PAY FOR WATER? THE COST OF WATER: THE CERTAINTY OF HIGHER WATER RATES COST
OF TREATMENT AGING INFRASTRUCTURE POWER COSTS TWENTIETH CENTURY RATES: THE
CERTAINTY OF DEMAND DESTRUCTION BEHAVIOR MODIFICATION TOOL FOR ACHIEVING
FINANCIAL AND WATER RESOURCE SUSTAINABILITY PRICE ELASTICITY OF WATER RATE
DESIGN Free Water Fixed Fee Uniform Rates Declining Block Rates Pyramid
Rates Inverted Block Rates CONSERVATION ORIENTED RATES Water Budget-Based
Rates Rebate Threshold Rate Structure RATE TUNING: THE CARROT AND STICK
WILL OF THE PEOPLE RECENT INCREASES WHAT MOST CITIES DON'T KNOW ABOUT THEIR
HUMAN AND PHYSICAL INFRASTRUCTURE NONREVENUE WATER VANISHING WORKFORCE A
CUSTOMER INFORMATION SYSTEM IS NOT A WATER MANAGEMENT TOOL DRIVERS FOR DATA
INNOVATION SMART GRID FOR WATER INCREASING DATA DENSITY INCREASING DATA
ANALYSIS INFORMATION PRESENTMENT CHANGING UTILITY DATA SYSTEMS TO
INFORMATION SYSTEMS HIDDEN REVENUE IN THE SMART GRID WATER REVENUE
MANAGEMENT: BILLING EVERY DROP, STOPPING THE REVENUE LEAKS OTHER REVENUE
ENHANCEMENTS OF THE SMART GRID FOR WATER ELIMINATING INEFFICIENCIES
IMPROVING THE CUSTOMER EXPERIENCE REAL-TIME DATA REQUIREMENTS TO CHANGE
BEHAVIOR THE DATA GATEWAY ARE YOU LEAKING DATA? LEAKING DROPS AND DATA TIME
DISPARITY OF SYSTEMS BILLING SYSTEM INADEQUACIES METER DEGRADATION FOUND
REVENUE USING THE SMART GRID TO IMPROVE FINANCIAL PERFORMANCE USING THE
SMART GRID TO PROTECT PUBLIC HEALTH Decision Support Systems Systems
Integrati on USING DATA TO DEFER CAPITAL EXPENDITURES AND REDUCE OPERATING
EXPENSES LEVERAGING EXISTING INFRASTRUCTURE AGING WATER INFRASTRUCTURE
BENEFITS OF DEMAND SHIFTING WITH OFF-PEAK STRATEGIES Pressure Management
Leak Control via Pressure Management Reducing Main Breaks Ancillary Benefi
ts of Off -Peak Strategies FATHOM(TM)- THE SMART GRID FOR WATER BENEFITS OF
FATHOM CONCLUSION: A CALL TO ACTION