Brentan, Bruno; Carpitella, Silvia; Izquierdo Sebastián, Joaquín; Luvizotto Jr., Edevar; Meirelles, Gustavo(R. Company, J. C. Cortés, L. Jódar and E. López-Navarro, 2019-07-12)
[EN] Service quality and efficiency of urban systems have been dramatically boosted by various high technologies for real-time monitoring and remote control, and have also gained privileged space in water distribution. ...
Brentan, Bruno M.; Carpitella, Silvia; Izquierdo Sebastián, Joaquín; Luvizotto, Edevar, Jr.; Meirelles, Gustavo(John Wiley & Sons, 2022-04)
[EN] The design of district metered areas (DMA) in potable water supply systems is of paramount importance for water utilities to properly manage their systems. Concomitant to their main objective, namely, to deliver quality ...
[EN] Agent-based algorithms, based on the collective behavior of natural social groups, exploit innate swarm intelligence to produce metaheuristic methodologies to explore optimal solutions for diverse processes in systems ...
[EN] Equitable distribution of water is a growing source of worry, and concerns water systems' managers as water-stressed areas steadily increase and situations of water scarcity are becoming more frequent. The problem ...
Brentan, Bruno M.; Campbell-Gonzalez, Enrique; Meirelles, Gustavo L.; Luvizotto, Edevar, Jr.; Izquierdo Sebastián, Joaquín(Hindawi Limited, 2017)
[EN] Management of large water distribution systems can be improved by dividing their networks into so-called district metered areas (DMAs). However, such divisions must be based on appropriated technical criteria. Considering ...
[EN] To satisfy their main goal, namely providing quality water to consumers, water distribution networks (WDNs) need to be suitably monitored. Only well designed and reliable monitoring data enables WDN managers to make ...