A good example of a project initiated by a Delft company and facilitated by Delft Kennisstad is the development of an integrated system for water management. Combining devices to measure water quality and quantity with radio waves and internet technology to provide data to all the organisations active in the field has proved a ready success. Delft not only facilitates such projects. It is also part of them.
Delft wishes to be the laboratory for such new developments.
This means that Delft will order 150 instruments and will use these for the water management within the city boundaries. The project includes the installation of 1000 measure systems within a radius of 10 kilometres from the Delft New Church Tower. An important side effect of the project is that all the different players in the world of water management are now in a more comfortable position to work together. Until now everybody tried to do their own job as well as they could without really integrating their own information with the information of other organisations. In this way Waterstad 2000 contributes to a real integrated system of water manegement.