An information systems for infrastructure asset management tailored to portuguese water utilities: platform conceptualization and a prototype demonstration

• Autor(a) principal: Carriço, Nelson
• Data de Publicação: 2022
• Outros Autores: Ferreira, Bruno, Antunes, André, Grueau, Cédric, Barreira, Raquel, Mendes, Ana, Covas, Dídia, Monteiro, Laura, Santos, João, Brito, Isabel S.
• Tipo de documento: Artigo
• Idioma: eng
• Título da fonte: Repositório Científico de Acesso Aberto de Portugal (Repositórios Cientìficos)
• Texto Completo: http://hdl.handle.net/10400.26/49653

This paper presents a new information technology platform specially tailored for infrastructure asset management of urban water systems operated by water utilities of lower digital maturity level, developed in the scope of DECIdE research project. This platform aims at the integration of different data from the water utilities with several information systems and the assessment of the system performance, in terms of water losses, energy efficiency and quality of service by using developed tools (i.e., water and energy balances and key performance indicators). This platform was tested with data from five small to medium size Portuguese water utilities with different maturity levels in terms of technological and human resources. Obtained results are very promising since the platform allows to assess the systems performance periodically which constitute an important part of the infrastructure asset management for small and medium-sized water utilities