Decision Support System for Daily and Long Term Operations of the System of Milan, Italy

Abstract

This study introduces the development of a Decision Support System (DSS) for daily and long term operations of the Water Distribution Network of Milan operated by the utility Metropolitana Milanese S.p.A (MM), developed during the European project ICeWater. The DSS has been developed for the two main problems of the utility by applying multi-objective optimization for pump scheduling and sectorization of the system. The DSS was built based on open source software on the server and the client side, making its applicability to other utilities possible. This paper presents the architecture of the DSS components and shows the advantages in the application of such tool in the operation for MM. A test for validation of the DSS for pump scheduling has been applied in a subsector named Abbiategrasso. Some results are presented showing the benefits for the utility by using the DSS in their daily operations.