CPD

Question 1

Application of AI in Water

Answer 1

Leak detection

Repair/revenue loss

Machine learning of why incidents happening

More intelligent chat box for customer queries

Analysis of satellite imagery, environmental data, historic pollution events

Question 2

Water towers and DMA’s

Answer 2

Water towers keep network pressurised and helps with varying demand .. superseded by pumps

Question 3

BIM

Answer 3

Level 0 (unmanaged CAD design)

Level 1 (managed CAD design)

Level 2 (3D environment with data attached)

Level 3: construction sequencing, life cycle management

Question 4

Data Centres

Answer 4

907% increase in 5 years

4 of top 20 accounts at Gleeds

-Edge data centres - close to city centres, benefit of lower latency (process data closer to users) which has improved response times/reliability (so good for hospitals/agriculture), refurb of old ones,

-Hyperscale: massive large scale computing and storage eg used by Google/Microsoft, supports AI/data analytics, lots more power needed,