Standard Versus SMART Options of Water Saving Determination

Buildings water management is nowadays focused on ensuring the greatest water savings. Usually as an answer of rising water shortage, or the sustainable treatment with water is becoming a new lifestyle in developed countries. According to philosophy of sustainable water treatment, there are several...

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Published in:Procedia engineering 2016, Vol.162, p.112-119
Main Authors: Rysulova, Martina, Kaposztasova, Daniela, Purcz, Pavol
Format: Article
Language:English
Subjects:
estimate method
measure method
SMART application
Water savings
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Summary:Buildings water management is nowadays focused on ensuring the greatest water savings. Usually as an answer of rising water shortage, or the sustainable treatment with water is becoming a new lifestyle in developed countries. According to philosophy of sustainable water treatment, there are several options how to ensure the water savings, mainly related with alternative water sources utilization. Focusing on the grey water systems, which are nowadays considered as another tool of sustainable water management in buildings, there are several options in water savings determination. Certainly, the measure or estimate methods can be used. This methods - standard methods, can determine the exact water consumption and water, which could be spared. In this paper we focused on the water consumption and potentially saved water in family house, ensured by the standard methods and based on them to design the SMART application, which can represent a new approach in water savings determination.
ISSN:1877-7058
1877-7058
DOI:10.1016/j.proeng.2016.11.025