Publications by authors named "Stefano Alvisi"
Article Synopsis
- A comprehensive review of residential water consumption studies highlights the importance of understanding individual water end uses to adapt urban water systems to changing demands.
- The paper systematically analyzes 114 studies, detailing significant findings and prioritizing which aspects of water end-use have been most explored globally.
- It offers insights for water utilities, consumers, and researchers on key water end use characteristics and encourages analysis across diverse geographical, cultural, and socio-economic contexts.
While smart metering applications have initially focused on energy and gas utility markets, water consumption has recently become the subject of increasing attention. Unfortunately, despite the large number of solutions available on the market, the lack of an open and widely accepted communication standard means that vendors typically propose proprietary data collection solutions whose adoption causes non-trivial problems to water utility companies in term of costs, vendor lock-in, and lack of control on the data collection infrastructure. There is the need for open and interoperable smart water metering solutions, capable of collecting data from the wide range of water meters on the market.
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