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Wednesday 23 May 2012: Smart Water Metering and Residential End Use Analysis: Recent Findings from Australia
Professor Rodney Stewart - Griffith University, Australia
Harrison 004 14:00-15:00
Smart metering trials and water end use studies are becoming more commonplace internationally in the quest to better understand urban water consumption generally and to ascertain the effectiveness of demand management strategies. Smart metering technology is rapidly developing in both the water and energy sectors and is rapidly becoming cost effective for widespread application. Without knowing precisely when and where water is being used in a home or business, how can you manage its demand and encourage relevant water conservation strategies?
The recent drought in Australia necessitated better management of water resources through evidence-based planning. The South-east Queensland Residential End Use Study (SEQREUS) has recently been finalised and provides a range of important findings relevant to researchers, practitioners and government officers in the United Kingdom seeking better knowledge on residential water consumption determinants.
Findings presented cover multiple residential end use summaries across a two year period, end use diurnal demand patterns, end use predictors of peak demand, energy related implications of water conservation, socio-demographic and stock efficiency determinants of residential consumption, to name a few.
Associate Professor Rodney Stewart is the Director of the Centre for Infrastructure Engineering and Management (CIEM) based at Griffith University, Gold Coast City, Queensland Australia. He is a specialist in engineering and environmental management research, particularly related to smart water metering and end use analysis. He is currently leading our completed water end use studies covering potable-only water supply schemes, dual supply schemes and internally plumbed rain tank schemes.
He was appointed as a National Water Commission Fellow in 2011 to verify the end use potable water savings achievable from a range of contemporary water supply schemes. More recently, his work is exploring the residential end use water-energy nexus as well as the development of intelligent algorithms for managing distributed battery storages in smart electricity grid networks.
