DKeau

Objective:

DK EAU aims to improve water management in the territory of the CUD (Urban Community of Dunkir). It aims to protect the natural environment and guarantee the quality of bathing water.

This operational research project combines:

• Analysis of the actors and coordination of decisions,
• The study of the complex interactions between water and territory,
• The deployment of demonstrators integrating technologies developed by IXSANE (AI for the dynamic management of sewerage networks) and DELTARES (software for the collection and analysis of territorial data).

The project is based on SOCRATIC (IXSANE) and Delft FEWS (DELTARES) offering an innovative solution to anticipate, alert and optimize water management.

DK EAU is a two-stage project aimed at improving water management in the CUD territory:

• Step 1: Analysis and modelling of the territory to identify the potential benefits of dynamic management of water networks.
• Step 2: Deployment of two complementary prototypes:
  
  1. An AI solution (Socratic d'Ixsane) to manage the wastewater network in real time and limit discharges into the natural environment.
  2. A centralized data system (FEWS) to anticipate the risks of water quality degradation at the watershed level.

Ixsane main contributions

IXSANE is the project coordinator and led the research and development work on the smart management of wastewater networks. The company carried out the specific modelling of the identified sectors and provided its expertise and technology for the dynamic management of the networks. IXSANE has also developed and deployed the prototype of the alert system, based on Delft-FEWS technology, in partnership with DELTARES.

Start date: 2020

End date: 2026

Partenaires : Ixsane (coordinateur), Deltares, Communauté Urbaine de Dunkerque, ULCO

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