Winter product update
Welcome to Qatium’s Winter product update! Check out the latest features and advances to our water management platform. Don’t forget to share your feedback, and now you have an additional channel to share it: the Qatium community. Join us for exclusive updates, networking, and Qatium support. So, what have we been up to? Our SDK […]
Why it’s important to connect your hydraulic model with SCADA?
Every day, water utilities face the task of making decisions that ensure the maintenance of high-quality services while minimizing costs and disruptions. The pressure to make the right decisions is only intensified by climate change, aging infrastructure, and large-scale population growth. Smart decision-making is essential for both large and small utilities, and for consumers. But […]
Distilled — Conversation with Koldo Urkullu, Bilbao Water Consortium
We maintain the same tariff for everyone—that’s our main principle—and also the same quality of service, no matter whether it’s a very little town in the mountains, where sending them drinking water or taking the sewage is very, very expensive in per capita terms, or whether they live in the center of the town. In […]
Chatting about ChatGPT, AI and water
[QTalks Ep.14] The momentum surrounding Artificial Intelligence (AI) has never been higher, and the arrival of ChatGPT has all industries considering what the future of work really looks like. The question is, can ChatGPT make the process of water management easier? Is it just a productivity-enhancing tool? Or, will it change the water sector forever? […]
Digital transformation of the water sector as a game changer
This article was originally published on Smart Water Magazine here. The United Nations held its first Water Conference in 50 years, this March in New York City. The conference highlighted the growing concern and the need to tackle the global water crisis and ensure a future with adequate access to water and sanitation for all. More […]
Is AI the right fit for your utility? How to approach AI effectively
This article was taken from the paper “AI & Water management — What utilities need to know now.” You’ll find the full paper here. Problem identification AI often gets imbued with the sense that it’s going to solve everything and work everywhere. And while optimism about AI’s potential in the water sector is important, it’s best […]
AI applications in water management
This article was taken from the paper “AI & Water management — What utilities need to know now.” You’ll find the full paper here. The future of chatbots: Imagining a more intelligent customer service interface for water customers You can see how ChatGPT, limitations aside, could have helpful applications when it comes to more intelligent customer service chatbots […]
AI Deep Dive: How has AI changed, and what does that mean for the water sector?
This article was taken from the paper “AI & Water management — What utilities need to know now.” You’ll find the full paper here. If you want to understand the opportunities and barriers to the water industry’s use of AI, it’s helpful to understand how AI works, how it’s recently changed, and where we are now […]
Ring the bell: It’s time for the water sector to converge on AI
This article was taken from the paper “AI & Water management — What utilities need to know now.” You’ll find the full paper here. It’s time to ring the bell and rally the water industry around game-changing AI models and tools, or risk being left behind. The newest iteration of OpenAI’s Large Language Model (LLM) GPT-4 […]
AI & Water management: What utilities need to know now
Ready or not, here AI comes: What every water utility needs to know Since OpenAI’s ChatGPT broke into the public sphere in November 2022, anyone who logged on fast enough—and that was a record-breaking number of people—suddenly had the future of chatbots at their fingertips: an artificial intelligence (AI) we could talk to, and it could talk […]
Solving water scarcity through digitalizing water utilities
Water scarcity is a huge problem in the modern world, and one of the primary ways to address this growing challenge is to take opportunities to innovate using digital technologies. Overall, the way we work with water needs to change — and one way to do this while tackling the causes of water scarcity is […]