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Making Water Systems Smarter

March 16, 2009 5:31 pm by: KUT Staff

Digital technology used to efficiently regulate electricity can be used to conserve and regulate water.

Smart grids are digitized systems used to control electricity. They’re being touted as a way for utilities to manage resources more efficiently. IBM is helping to “smarten up” Austin’s electric grid as part of the city’s Pecan Street Project. Now the computing giant wants to apply the concept to water utilities.

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