A smart body and nervous system for water distribution networks: the dutch approach

“Smart water distribution networks are optimally sized networks equipped with sensors. These networks allow a water utility to efficiently satisfy customers’ demand for water, and at the same time better control the performance of a network in terms of quantity, quality and pipe condition. Adding sensors can be considered as adding a nervous system to the body of the network. It enables water companies to operate their networks ‘smarter’, but it does not really make the networks themselves smarter. A network’s body of infrastructure could be designed to perform “smarter” continuously.”

(Citaat: Vertommen, I., van Laarhoven, K.A., Quintiliani, C., van Thienen, P., Blokker, E.J.M. – A smart body and nervous system for water distribution networks: the dutch approach – Smart Water & Waste World 1(2019)13, p.38-40)