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JOURNAL OF WATER RESOURCES PLANNING AND MANAGEMENT
Volume 147, Issue 6, Pages -Publisher
ASCE-AMER SOC CIVIL ENGINEERS
DOI: 10.1061/(ASCE)WR.1943-5452.0001360
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- European Union [707404]
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This study aims to link smart water meter data to socioeconomic user characteristics by applying a novel clustering algorithm and testing it on single-family home datasets, showing that the algorithm performs well in determining the number of clusters and assigning patterns correctly.
Socioeconomic characteristics arc influencing the temporal and spatial variability of water demand, which arc the biggest source of uncertainties within water distribution system modeling. Improving current knowledge of these influences can be utilized to decrease demand uncertainties. This paper aims to link smart water meter data to socioeconomic user characteristics by applying a novel clustering algorithm that uses a dynamic time warping metric on daily demand patterns. The approach is tested on simulated and measured single-family home data sets. It is shown that the novel algorithm performs better compared with commonly used clustering methods, both in finding the right number of clusters as well as assigning patterns correctly. Additionally, the methodology can be used to identify outliers within clusters of demand patterns. Furthermore, this study investigates which socioeconomic characteristics (e.g., employment status and number of residents) are prevalent within single clusters and, consequently, can be linked to the shape of the cluster's barycenters. In future, the proposed methods in combination with stochastic demand models can be used to fill data gaps in hydraulic models. (C) 2021 American Society of Civil Engineers.
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