The development of robust Stormwater systems presents a sustainable and efficient solution to the urgent need for water conservation and reuse and to reduce the reliance on centralized water distribution systems. Hence, maintaining adequate levels of water quality and quantity in Stormwater systems is critical and would require continuous monitoring, involving the collection and analysis of information from various Stormwater system infrastructure.  Stormwater systems present several challenges – 1) Geo-distributed infrastructure with dynamically changing environments, 2) Heterogeneous data sources at varying granularities, and 3) Multiple stakeholders requiring different combinations of information. Current data collection and management solutions require significant manual efforts by different stakeholders which can lead to delays in information processing and high levels of data redundancy since there is no robust methodology in place for information sharing and exchange.  We propose to build a smart Data Exchange framework for Stormwater systems that leverages Internet-Of-Things (IoT) device capabilities for data collection, that can store and disseminate requisite information accurately to different stakeholders. The framework would leverage low-cost computational devices near the information sources to transform and combine data and dynamically allow the addition and removal of data sources and stakeholders resulting in a more robust and efficient data exchange platform. This can be visualized as a hierarchical structure where data from geo-distributed Stormwater infrastructure can be combined as needed and quickly accessed by different stakeholders which would allow them to obtain relevant information in a timely manner.

IoT enabled data exchange for stormwater systems

2019 Fall National Meeting

The official archive and repository for all ACS Meetings & Expositions abstracts and select posters or presentations.