Towards smart water-Democritus impact project
June 2024 – June 2025
Objective
This impact project focuses on one of the main areas of the Democritus collaborative project, the digitization of drinking water and wastewater networks. Based on the results of the Democritus project, the objectives of this impact project are the following:
- Demonstrate the viability of theoretical modelling to the water industry by applying the project results to address practical water network problems defined by SVOA and Stockholm City. The collaboration will increase digitalization-related know-how in the Swedish water sector.
- Demonstrate the theoretical results on pollutants and leak localization in small-scale water network testbeds within the international collaboration. This way, we connect the communities of experimental and theoretical research on water distribution networks.
The results will be disseminated through stakeholder workshops, open-source software and accessible video material.
Background
The Smart Society critically depends on large infrastructures like electrical grids or water distribution networks that need to operate efficiently, with predictable performance and meet strict safety and security requirements. In the Democritus collaborative project, we have investigated the problems of monitoring and managing these large critical infrastructures with the help of digitization. Within this large area, we focused on three main topics: (a) distributed learning over wireless networks, (b) learning accuracy and security in large systems, and (c) learning for detection and localization with application to water networks.
Cross-disciplinary collaboration
The team consists of experts from the School of Electrical Engineering and Computer Science and the School of Engineering Sciences at KTH, from Stockholm University and RISE, with research experience in network design and optimization, learning and decision making, security of cyber-physical systems, and large-scale experimentation. The project collaborates with SVOA, the Stockholm Water company.
Contacts
Viktoria Fodor
Professor, Division of Network and Systems Engineering at KTH, Member of the Executive Committee, Associate Director Strategic Research and Chair of the Strategic Research Committee, Working group Cooperate, PI of research project Decision-making in Critical Societal Infrastructures (DEMOCRITUS), Digital Futures Faculty
+46 8 790 42 68vjfodor@kth.se
Bengt Ahlgren
Senior Researcher at RISE, Member of the Executive Committee, Associate Director for Testbeds and Data, Co-PI: Decision-making in Critical Societal Infrastructures (DEMOCRITUS), Digital Futures Faculty
+46 10 228 43 24bengt.ahlgren@ri.se
Carlo Fischione
Professor, Division of Network and Systems Engineering at KTH, Co-PI of research project Decision-making in Critical Societal Infrastructures (DEMOCRITUS), Digital Futures fellow, Digital Futures Faculty
+46 73 632 25 61carlofi@kth.se
Sindri Magnússon
Associate professor, Department of Computer and Systems Sciences at Stockholm University, Vice Chair Working group Cooperate, Co-PI: Decision-making in Critical Societal Infrastructures (DEMOCRITUS), Former Co-PI: Data-Driven Control and Coordination of Smart Converters for Sustainable Power System Using Deep Reinforcement Learning at C3.ai DTI, Former Co-Supervisor: Distributed Optimization and Federated Learning in Emerging Smart Networks, Digital Futures Faculty
+46 8 16 11 15sindri.magnusson@dsv.su.se
Johan Karlsson
Professor, Optimisation and Systems Theory at KTH, Member of the Executive Committee, Associate Director Executive Research, Co-PI of research project Decision-making in Critical Societal Infrastructures (DEMOCRITUS), Digital Futures Faculty
+46 8 790 84 40johan.karlsson@math.kth.se
Henrik Sandberg
Professor, Division of Decision and Control Systems at KTH EECS, Member of the Strategic Research Committee, Chair Working group Trust, PI of research project Learning in Routing Games for Sustainable Electromobility (RoSE), Co-PI of research project Causal Reasoning for Real-Time Attack Identification in Cyber-Physical Systems, Co-PI of research project Decision-making in Critical Societal Infrastructures (DEMOCRITUS), Digital Futures Faculty
+46 8 790 72 94hsan@kth.se
Rolf Stadler
Prof. and Head of Division, Division of Network and Systems Engineering at KTH, Co-PI of research project Decision-making in Critical Societal Infrastructures (DEMOCRITUS) at Digital Futures, Digital Futures Faculty
+46 8 790 42 50stadler@kth.se