Dr. Abubakr Muhammad, Director, Center for Water Informatics & Technology (WIT), Lahore University of Management Sciences conducted a graduate seminar on Smart Water Grids: Managing Complexity via Ubiquitous Sensing and Modeling Abstractions held at USPCAS-W, Mehran University, Jamshoro.
While speaking in the seminar Dr. Abubakr said that Water is at the heart of "All development challenges in Pakistan". He was of the view that people by using this technology can overcome the challenges faced by today in the water sector in Pakistan. He said that by using artificial intelligence, robotics and other related application of computers, the demand-driven water system can be formed and implemented. While emphasizing on the Imagineering, he said that through Imagineering the sustainable solutions to the prevailing water crisis can be sought out.
In defining the contextual importance of using smart water grid technology, he said that the managing irrigation networks in the Indus river basin inspire interesting problems with an important and unique socio-economic context for Pakistan. He elaborates that river basins, when equipped with smart infrastructures, are complex cyber-physical-social systems with a unique set of Cyber-Physical Systems (CPS) problems and the Internet of Things (IoT) inspired solutions.
While concluding the seminar, he said that that socio-hydrology cross-pollinated by water informatics tools allows us to imagine new ways to manage water in the 21st century. By giving presentations, he also shared various diagrams including the Water Policy Social Network, Farmer Social Network, Social Comparison Processes, Real-Time Flow Monitoring and other related. He also shared the documentary which showed how these smart grids are working efficiently.
