AQVISER
The community of water innovators
We use social and digital innovation to offer clean and affordable water to people
by research projects for water industry, environmental protection and consumer education.
AQVISER
The community of water innovatorsWe use social and digital innovation to offer clean and affordable water to people by research projects for water industry, environmental protection and consumer education.
Environment
Sustainable Earth: Water
Clean water is essential for life, but most people in the developed world don't think much about the water they use for drinking, food preparation, and sanitation. In developing nations, however, the search for safe drinking water can be a daily crisis. Millions of...
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Solving Water Scarcity through Innovation
From California to China, the alarm bells are ringing. Fast-growing cities globally are running short of safe and reliable drinking water as they cope with population growth, climate change and unsustainable water use practices. It’s estimated that over the next three...
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The Smart Solutions for Water have just arrived!
Water is a too precious resource to be wasted by inefficient systems and the planet keeps warning us of its scarcity. Companies as well as local and central Governments have claimed as their duty addressing its flagrant waste. The new developed systems offers a more...
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Water should always be used wisely. Don’t waste water!
Mission
Creating a center of excellence in innovative water solutions.
Values
Innovation, partnership, facilitation, we are all in this together.
What is Aqviser?
Blog
…about water management fields such as:
- Economic models for water use
- Actions for environmental protection and water conservation
- Education for society and particularly for children regarding wise use of water
Community
…of water innovators that recommend:
- Water leakage detection and limitation solutions
- Devices and appliances for an efficient water use by the consumers
- Real and digital games for education regarding water use
Provider
…of consulting and solutions for:
- Digital transformation of water and sewerage service operators
- Smart metering, commercial water management, energy cost reduction in water production, water loss management
- Integration of digital platforms into the current IT infrastructures of the water companies
Partnership for the Digital Transformation
In theory, we can make a leap forward in two ways: in the hard way, by learning, testing and improving permanently, or in the easy way, by copying those who have already been recognized. In life, we know that usually no standard recipes can be applied for success, no...
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- Leonardo da VinciCommunity members
Piero Fraternali
Full Professor at Politecnico di Milano
He is Head of the Degree Course in Computer Engineering of the Como Campus of the Politecnico di Milano. His main research interests concern database integrity, active databases, software engineering, and methodologies and tools for WEB application development. He is co-inventor of WebML a model for the conceptual design of Web applications.
Professor Fraternali is the main author of SmartH2O - the software platform that creates a virtuous feedback cycle between water users and the utilities, providing users information on their consumption in quasi real time, and thus enabling water utilities to plan and implement strategies to reduce/reallocate water consumption. The SmartH2O platform adopts a gamification paradigm to motivate users to change their water use behaviour and different incentives.
Andrea Emilio Rizzoli
Senior Researcher at IDSIA, Professor at SUPSI
Andrea E. Rizzoli is a senior researcher at IDSIA (Istituto Dalle Molle of Studies on Artificial Intelligence) and Professor at SUPSI (University of Applied Sciences of Southern Switzerland).
(*) Jasminko Novak
Professor of Information Systems at Univ. of Appl. Sciences Stralsund, Chairman European Institute Participatory Media
His research interests lie in the area of Human-Centered Information Systems at the intersection of Social Computing, Gamification and Visual Analytics. This includes their application to developing new solutions for business and society.Some of his topics of interest in the water innovation refer to: Integrating Behavioural Change and Gamified Incentive Modelling for stimulating water saving, Design of Gamified Systems for Energy and Water Sustainability. Professor Novak is an author of the SmartH2O platform, developed for demonstrating the impact of gamification technologies for saving water.
Andrea Castelletti
Professor at Politecnico di Milano
Andrea Castelletti is an associate professor of Natural Resources Management and Integrated Water Resources Management at Politecnico di Milano, Italy, and a senior scientist at ETH Zurich. He is the co-funder and head of the Hydroinformatics Lab at Politecnico di Milano and scientific advisor of SoftWater, an innovative SME.
Manuel Pulido-Velazquez
Professor at Universitat Politècnica de València, Research Institute of Water and Environmental Engineering
He is the Chair of Climatic Change course of the Universitat Politècnica de València. Professor Pulido-Velazquez is author of a series of works dedicated to climatic change in agriculture.
(*) Dragan Savic
Professor of Hydroinformatics
Professor Savic (FREng, FICE, FCIWEM, FIWA, MASCE, CEng) is the UK’s first Professor of Hydroinformatics having held this post at the University of Exeter since 2001. He is also the CEO of KWR Watercycle Research Institute, the Dutch drinking water companies’ collective research organisation.
His research interests cover the interdisciplinary field of Hydroinformatics, informatics and computer science (including Artificial Intelligence, data mining and optimisation techniques) and environmental engineering. Applications are generally in the environmental engineering/science areas, water resources management, flood management, water & wastewater systems and environmental protection & management.
Jaime Barba Sevillano
Chief Digital and Disruptive Officer at GlobalOmnium, CEO Go-Aigua, Valencia, Spain
Jaime Barba Sevillano has more than 18 years working at digital transformation and management mainly at Global Omnium - the water company from Valencia, with several roles.
(*) Julien Harou
Professor of Water Management, Water Engineering Chair, University of Manchester
Professor Julien Harou is Chair in Water Engineering of University of Manchester. He has a PhD from the University of California Davis in water resources engineering and economics and an Master’s degree from Cornell University.
Julien's group contributes globally leading research in water resources planning and management, water-energy-food systems, and environmental management software.
Topics covered in its projects and studies include:
- Economic planning and interventions in the water supply infrastructure
- Dynamic pricing scheme for water as a demand management strategy
- Integration of multiple software modules into a single codebase for water resource modelling
(*) Jacob Tompkins
Co-Founder & CTO - The Water Retail Company, UK
Jacob Tompkins is co-founder and CTO of The Water Retail Company from UK. He is focused on water efficiency and application of technology to benefit customers and the environment.
Nigel Bamford
Inventor, Designer, Strategist and Company owner of Innovation brand Waterblade
Waterblade is a water saving tap adaptor with dynamic flow control. It makes a trickle of water really useful. Waterblade is already making a real difference, saving water,energy and money for thousands of people and businesses.
Spartaco Albertarelli
Professional game designer - owner of KaleidosPublishing SRL
Since 1987 Spartaco Albertarelli is in charge for the development of Risiko (the italian version of Risk) brand. He ideated DROP! a card game to engage people in a board game for offering a wide set of activities aimed at triggering water saving actions.
Andrea Cominola
Junior Professor of Smart Water Networks
Andrea Cominola teaches Smart Water Networks at the Einstein Center Digital Future (ECDF) and Technische Universität Berlin. His research interests focus on urban water and energy demand modelling and management, behavioral modelling, smart metering, anomaly detection, and data mining and machine learning applications to foster operations and management of coupled urban water supply and demand systems.
He received his PhD in Information Technology at Politecnico di Milano, with his dissertation on modelling urban water consumer behaviours and research contributions to the EU project SmartH2O, awarded in 2018 with the WssTP Digital Water Prize. He is author of more 8 scientific publications in peer-reviewed international journals, more than 20 publications/presentations in international conferences, and reviewer for several international journals.
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