The SmartH2O TechnologyJacopo Mossina, Research Fellow at Politecnico di Milano

Why We Are Here• THE SmartH2O PROJECT

– The SmartH2O project receives funding from the European Commission and is part of the ICT4Water cluster

• PARTNERSHIPS– Short-term collaborations for technology development and deployment

• BUSINESS DEVELOPMENT– Investors to follow up of the project – Markets: Mediterranean area, Europe, USA

• VISION– Water efficiency requires new business link between utilities and their customers

• MISSION– Turn water consumption smart meter data into a business intelligence tool– Help water utilities predicting water demand and optimize network operations and water production– Foster behavioral change of water consumers towards a more sustainable society

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•Digital + real games•Personalized tips

WATER DATA END_USE ANALYTICS

CUSTOMER SEGMENTATION

ENGAGEMENT AND BEHAVIOURAL CHANGE

DATA acquisition and consolidation

Consumption dataREPOSITORY• Privacy• Security

CONSUMER PORTAL

Gamification And Data Analytics For Consumption Behavioral Change

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Gamified Consumer Portal

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HOUSEHOLD WATER CONSUMPTION

Users’ consumption class (label)

USERS CLUSTERING

FEATURE EXTRACTION MODEL LEARNING

HOUSEHOLD and CONSUMERS’ PSYCHOGRAPHICS

Relevant consumption determinants subset

Users’ consumption class (label)

forecast

Feature Extraction-based User Profiling

Serious Games For Engagement And Behavior Change

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Where We AreDEPLOYMENT AND TESTING TIMELINE• End of 2015

– Gamified Consumer Portal in alpha test – 400 households in Canton Ticino (CH), AMI at 1 hr resolution

• Q1 2016– Deployment in Valencia with Emivasa, Grupo Aguas de Valencia.– 650'000 smart meters (490'000 already deployed), of which 2500+ high resolution (1h)

• 2016 / 2017– Deployment in London with Thames Water

• Long term investment: 3 M smart meter before 2030 (40’000 in 2015)

DEPLOYMENT MODEL• On premises• SaaS

BUSINESS DEVELOPMENT• Uptake by 2 partners (Set Mobile, WebRatio)• Demos and contacts at major events in EU and US

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http://www.smarth2o-fp7.eu/

@smartH2Oproject #SmartH2O@JMossina@AndreaCominola

jacopo.mossina | andrea.cominola@polimi.it

Politecnico di Milano Department of Electronics,

Information and Bioengineering

consortium cluster