Improving city infrastructure resilience capacity: Water-supply network case study

Abstract

Main goal of research in this paper is to improve city infrastructure resilience capacity as well as management process of water supply network. Namely, water supply network is located over the wide city area, typically managed by company established for that purpose owned by city government. Water supply network is very important part of the city infrastructure. Hence, it is necessary to ensure high-quality and reliable water supply network management process. Our research is focused on mapping of telecommunications network management principles into water supply network management. Complete network view is graphically and geographically oriented using GPS based network elements coordinates. Real-time network control and management is based on network inventory management system which is presented in our previous work. Data from the real network are included in network management process using telemetry techniques and will enhance network management process. Finally, network model and relevant real-time data are integrated into the complete system that will cover all city infrastructure, acting as infrastructure data interchange portal usable especially in the case of disasters such as flooding, earthquakes, volcanos, etc. Indirectly, citizens will communicate with this platform through different users or services using telecommunications infrastructure.