Journal:Data and information systems management for urban water infrastructure condition assessment
| Full article title | Data and information systems management for urban water infrastructure condition assessment |
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| Journal | Frontiers in Water |
| Author(s) | Carriço, Nelson; Ferreira, Bruno |
| Author affiliation(s) | Polytechnic Institute of Setúbal |
| Primary contact | Email: nelson dot carrico at estbarreiro dot ips dot pt |
| Editors | Vladeanu, Greta |
| Year published | 2021 |
| Volume and issue | 3 |
| Article # | 670550 |
| DOI | 10.3389/frwa.2021.670550 |
| ISSN | 2624-9375 |
| Distribution license | Creative Commons Attribution 4.0 International |
| Website | https://www.frontiersin.org/articles/10.3389/frwa.2021.670550/full |
| Download | https://www.frontiersin.org/articles/10.3389/frwa.2021.670550/pdf (PDF) |
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Abstract
Most of the urban water infrastructure around the world was built several decades ago and nowadays they are deteriorated. As such, the assets that constitute these infrastructures need to be updated or replaced. Since most of the assets are buried, water utilities face the challenge of deciding where, when, and how to update or replace those assets. Condition assessment is a vital component of any planned update and replacement activities and is mostly based on the data collected from the managed networks. This collected data needs to be organized and managed in order to be transformed into useful information. Nonetheless, the large amount of assets and data involved makes data and information management a challenging task for water utilities, especially those with as lower digital maturity level. This paper highlights the importance of data and information systems' management for urban water infrastructure condition assessment based on the authors' experiences.
Keywords: condition assessment, data, information systems, management, urban water infrastructure
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