Interoperability & STANDARDISATION (I&S) I&S.1 To develop an European Catalogue of ICT4Water standards including: Adoption of Priority and Feasibility of integration INMEDIATE ACTION Activity 1: Develop guidelines for the adoption of ICT standards and emerging digital technologies in the water sector. Activity 2: Propose good Practices on the implementation of water , and their right portfolio, considering a cross-sectorial interoperability approach and supporting technologies (data management, IoT, Cloud, LPWAN, 5G, among others). Activity 3: Develop interoperability recommendations and specifications in due consideration of the Communication on ICT Standardisation Priorities for the Digital Single Market. Activity 4: Provide guidelines for the inclusion of ICT Standards public procurements. Activity 5: Link water standards with the Rolling Plan for ICT Standardisation Activity 6: Promote standardisation and interoperability through the deployment and application of standards. 2018 Procurement < 15.000€
Complementary activities on standardisation (ANNEX-II) I&S.2 Development of information exchange water standards including common languages to properly contextualise the business processes in the water domain (E.g. SAREF, HyFeatures, etc.) Activity 1: Identify and develop interface standardsessential for the integration of systems. Activity 2: Develop specifications for interoperability and data sharing across services (water, energy, assets, etc.) and their infrastructures. Activity 3: Promote and accelerate the development on standards and ontologies on data 2019- 2023 Promote in the framework of standardisation bodies Digital water interoperability award Dedicated research and innovation actions Cross European Association / ICT4Water cluster working group Data sharing (DS) DS.1 Develop recommendations ensuring interoperability and data sharing across services, making special emphasis on the free flow of data Activity 1: Define, develop, improve, operationalise, maintain and promote interoperable services and tools, standards and specifications following existing directives and initiatives: WFD, INSPIRE, GEOSS … Activity 2: Contribute to existing repositories by Improving collection, access and retrieval of coherent water related data. For instance, European Environmental Agency data and maps; WISE portal (Water Information System for Europe is the European information gateway to water issues). Activity 3: Cross European Associations working group H2020 and following Funding Schemas Current funded activities European, National, Reginal Funding schemas
Engagement with other interconnected domains (e.g. climatology, agriculture, geography, etc.) for multidisciplinary systems with interoperable solutions. To integrate existing European public platforms (e.g. by JRC) and services (e.g. Copernicus by ESA) European-wide water data-sharing regulations DS.2 Development of cross-domain data sharing mechanisms (Water-Energy-Food - Land use – Climate Nexus) Activity 1: Develop and provide cross-domain alignment open interfaces and establishing Open Data (or meta data) policies to facilitate the data flow between different systems and domains. 2021-2025 Dedicated Research and Innovation actions
Consequently, efficient data quality standardsare required in order to provide information to decision makers in periods not covered by water related directives. Distributed high performance computing infrastructures such as Grids or Clouds appear as promising supporting technologies. 17 POL.2 Data sharing and privacy management policies Activity 1: Upgrade legislation providing common sets of terms and conditions to be used. Provide a policy framework to include open data clauses in contracts between local authorities and operators. Furthermore, identify potential privacy risks and propose solutions (at the technical and policy levels) to facilitate data sharing. 2021-2025 Cross European Associations working group. DGs 18 POL.3 Promote the links with the existing and future water legislation by deploying ICT4WATER Activity 1: Reduction of legislative fragmentation and establishment of clear water governancy bodies.Water is a fragmented domain where decision-making legislative responsibilities in some cases are overlapped or unclear; Activity 2: Promote a legislative framework for the application of INSPIRE Directive for Geospatial data in digital public services. 2021-2025 DGs Stimulate water private sector investments European, National, Regional Funding schemas 19 POL.4 Integrate digital water components into water eGovernance (new or existing urban plans; emergency plans; infraestructures plans; etc.) Activity 1: Develop and deploy data-intensive services for policy-making Initiatives by promoting the usage of effective data management infrastructures including hybrid approaches supporting (i.e for Water Security Plans). Activity 2: Develop and deploy smart water solution to improve management of governance complexity, uncertainty, 2025-2030 Dedicated Innovation Actions Stimulate water private sector investments European, National, Regional Funding schemas
divergent economic and political interests and cultural discourses. BUSINESS MODELS (BM) 20 BM.1 Further developing digital water bussines models for different smart approaches (Smart Cities, Smart Agriculture, Smart Industry) Activity 1: Definition and development of data driven and business built on digital water value (rural, domestic, industrial regional cases). Further explore options such as: ownership, as a service bussiness models, fix rate... Activity 2: Research on optimal solutions for the decentralised exchange of value and creation of digital assets (e.g. blockchain) 2019-2023 Data-Water Association/ICT4Water cluster working group Sector investments Innovation actions 21 BM.2 Reducing Total Cost of Ownership for Water ICT Activity 1: Strengthening research and innovation to deliver: Cost-effective technical solutions addressing water consumption monitoring and allowing massive implementation of solutions. Technical synergies and business models with energy consumption monitoring, Smart Cities, Smart Home, Smart Agriculture and Smart Industries ecosystems. Improvement of circular economy business models leveraging the circular characteristics of water. 2021-2025 H2020 Funding Schemas Dedicated Research and Innovation actions Stimulate water private sector investments European, National, Regional Funding schemas 22 BM.3 Developing tools for assessing the maturity, costs and benefits of smart water deployments including Activity 1: Develop, identify and summarize key performance metrics and indicators in order to develop benchmarking framework and assessment methodology of smartness or digitalisation levels (considering already established Cross European Associations working group H2020 and following funding Schemas