6 March - 10 March 2022
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You’d think on a planet of oceans as blue as ours, clean drinkable water is abundant. If current usage trends persist, by 2040, roughly one in four children will live in areas of extremely high water stress. By 2050 half of the world’s population will face water shortages. The agriculture sector alone needs almost three-quarters of the water we use every year to feed our ever-growing population. It’s time to make a change, and change starts with every one of us.
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At Expo 2020 Dubai, we invited passionate people with inventive minds to make the most of data, cloud, and IoT to help make the way we handle water – the key to our life on Earth – more sustainable, reliable, and efficient.
It was a privilege to welcome so many inspiring teams at the Future Water Hack. From improving water supply networks to helping enterprises manage water, from protecting ever-growing cities from floods to boosting water efficiency, the solutions developed at the Future Water Hack tackled the decisive trends shaping the future of safe and sustainable water. Here are the creative water solutions that impressed the MindSphere jury most.
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Using a combination of industrial IoT services in MindSphere and low-code applications the startup developed a solution that is able to monitor, predict and control the water levels across the city and ultimately mitigate the risk of flooding in Bangkok.
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Combining a unique hardware solution with industrial IoT services in MindSphere and low-code to reduce costs and increase value to their customers through services such as intelligent flow-based leak detection.
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Designed for water utilities, this solution uses MindSphere to connect, manage, monitor and analyze a network of wireless self-powered water meters (PT1) to gain powerful insights into the operation of water networks.
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The startup has integrated industrial IoT services in MindSphere and low-code in their solution, to reduce waste of water, CO2, and energy consumption for their customers by monitoring, analyzing, and improving the efficiency of urban street sweepers.
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By using edge computing, industrial IoT services in MindSphere, and bi-directional communication, Scubic is able to reduce energy costs and strain on infrastructure by monitoring, predicting, optimizing, evaluating, and ultimately controlling the flow of water across water networks.
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The ground-breaking MindSphere Smart City App and its IoT framework helped make Expo 2020 Dubai the most sustainable Expo in the history of World Expos. Their success in combining individual applications to address the specific needs and circumstances of an urban environment has created a blueprint for smart cities everywhere. This open, flexible, and synergetic approach to solving complex challenges inspired the MindSphere Future World Series.
Whether you get value from your data through our IoT apps and solutions or develop your own, learn how to use MindSphere step by step.
Are you curious about ideas developed for the MindSphere Future World Series or the hackathon teams that built mobility solutions? We’d love to hear from you!