Leveraging Big Data to Improve Water System Operations

AbstractUtilities often use less than 40 percent of the data they generate, leaving potentially valuable information unused. Our goal is to avoid inundating operators with voluminous raw data, instead presenting solutions to automatically link and interpret data streams, instead providing insight and actionable information to respond to a problem. We can utilize solutions from other areas to find relationships, process data into understandable “chunks,” and provide visualizations for more direct interpretation and understanding. Gathering and monitoring data in real time allows mining these data for details that aid in day-to-day operations, regulatory compliance, and cost savings