Politecnico di Bari, via Orabona, 4, Bari, Italy.
Acquedotto Pugliese S.p.A., via Cognetti, 36, Bari, Italy.
Water Res. 2024 Jul 1;258:121765. doi: 10.1016/j.watres.2024.121765. Epub 2024 May 10.
The digital transition is meant as the review of processes using digital technologies and strategies to increase efficiency based on a simpler collection of representative data. The process of interest here is the leakage management in systems distributing water.
To develop a novel key performance indicator (KPI) for leakage management considering the needs of ongoing digital transition in the water sector, which is opening a new era in the management of drinking water infrastructures.
The novel KPI, named Asset Management Support Indicator, is developed starting from advanced hydraulic modelling and the physical laws governing leakage outflows, in order to be physically based and rational for increasing the efficiency of leakage management activities using representative process data.
The Asset Management Support Indicator supports effective leakage management strategies by driving towards efficiency, as discussed and demonstrated using several real case studies.
The novel indicator is consistent with the digital transition perspective and current need of increasing the efficiency of water utilities, and it is also suitable to be adopted by water authorities to benchmark their performances, because it overcomes the weaknesses of traditional KPIs.
数字化转型是指利用数字技术和策略来审查流程，以基于更简单的代表性数据收集来提高效率。这里的关注过程是在分配水的系统中进行的泄漏管理。
为了在水务部门正在进行的数字化转型需求下开发一种新的用于泄漏管理的关键绩效指标（KPI），这为饮用水基础设施管理开辟了一个新时代。
新的 KPI，命名为资产管理支持指标，是从先进的水力建模和控制泄漏流出的物理定律开始开发的，以便为使用代表性过程数据提高泄漏管理活动的效率提供物理基础和合理性。
资产管理支持指标通过提高效率来支持有效的泄漏管理策略，这是通过几个实际案例研究进行讨论和证明的。
新型指标符合数字化转型的视角和当前提高水公用事业效率的需求，并且也适合水管理部门采用来对其绩效进行基准测试，因为它克服了传统 KPI 的弱点。
