AquaScale - Exploring resilience of community water infrastructures

Abstract

We present AquaSCALE, a framework for enabling middleware technologies and tools to model and explore the resilience and improved performance of urban infrastructures, e.g., water/power/natural gas distribution networks and transportation network. Today, detection of anomalous events (e.g., pipe breaks/leaks, contamination) in such complex distributed settings is time consuming and often takes hours or days. AquaSCALE integrates a multiplicity of data sources and technologies to enable quick and accurate identification of failures under the environment with growing complexity and uncertainties. We highlight essential research challenges in building such a sensor-simulation-data integration platform and illustrate the value of AquaSCALE using community water infrastructures as a driving use case.