Smart WAter Data Exchange
SWADE brings together an interdisciplinary team of researchers and practitioners in computer science, civil engineering, public policy, and social ecology to create a Smart Water data-exchange framework called SWADE. The intent of this framework is to connect complex information subsystems within the three water infrastructures: drinking water, wastewater, and stormwater to create a unified data system. Currently, each subsystem operates independently through local governments, water districts, and regulatory agencies. For each group, aggregate data and structural information can greatly improve planning and operation procedures within their field of operation. To do this, we propose combining water cycle information to enable new levels of efficiency and resilience. To enable this goal and ensure that it is useful to practitioners, we have engaged with a set of community partners to provide feedback and identify the critical needs and components of each system. By identifying and addressing these constraints, we have modeled an ontology and framework that we hope to extend to our industrial partners that is usable, robust, and addresses their needs and concerns.
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