The Sensors for Water Interest Group (SWIG) will be presenting an event at the forthcoming WWEM show (Telford, 21-22 November) called “Industrial Discharge Monitoring & Smart Water: Extracting Value and Insights from Data”.
A morning session will focus on implementation of the ‘polluter pays’ principle. There has been increasing awareness in recent years of the work by the Environment Agency to implement this principle, and there have been well-publicised prosecutions of large organisations. The ‘polluter pays’ principle is also at the heart of current governmental discussions on implementation of a Green Brexit. The aim of the morning session is to provide industrial dischargers, water companies, contractors and instrumentation providers with an update on how to implement successful monitoring systems which ensure compliance and show how industry can benefit from discharge monitoring.
An afternoon session will explore the way that insights and value can be extracted from the huge amounts of data that is either already available or will be generated in the future. The focus will be on the way issues such as data availability and data validity are addressed to allow powerful analytics and human examination to focus on outliers and events. One key aim of any potential user of smart water systems is to move from a largely reactive world to a predictive world. This session will give insights into how that is possible, according to SWIG.
