Dong-hoon Cha

Dong-hoon Cha is responsible for research project management and research water policy such as efficient asset management in water infrastructure and digital transformation for water utilities. Before he joined SWI, he designed water and wastewater treatment facility and researched water resource management and demand side management in private companies.

About Seoul Water

Seoul Water (Arisu) is Seoul Waterworks Authority of Seoul Metropolitan Government and has a history of over 110 years and has been supplying tap water to 10 million Seoul citizens.

Sang-hoon Cha

Sang-hoon Cha is a smart city expert with a background of IoT platform, digital transformation, and smart energy management of water supply system. He brings experience to support smart water management initiatives and projects in urban development. Before he founded WI.Plat in 2020, he worked in K-water (Korea Water Resource Corporation) for 23 years.

About WI.Plat

Sam Kim

Sam Kim is currently in charge of the overseas marketing of Shindonga Electronics (SDE). He was already engaged in electronic products marketing for 20 years before he joined SDE.

Abouth the Shindoga Electronics

SDE is an electronic parts manufacturer equipped with surface amount technology (SMT) facilities and processes, including manual insertion, assembly, test, and inspection of raw and subsidiary materials against environmental contaminants.

Sang-young Park

Sang-young Park is a water resource management specialist with a background in integrated water resource management (IWRM), smart water management, and climate change mitigation measure. He worked at Korea Water Forum as an Executive Director and ADB Indonesian Residence Mission as an international consultant. Currently, he works for the Korea-Mekong Water Resources Management Research Center, which promotes and improves the Mekong-Republic of Korea cooperation on sustainable and integrated water resources management.

About the Korea Water Resource Corporation

Utility Management System by Maynilad

One key innovation that revolutionized Maynilad's customer data management and billing is the Utility Management System (UMS). It was designed using Maynilad's Enterprise Resource Planning system as its building block.

The Maynilad UMS is especially designed for small and medium enterprises and water utilities to address common pain points in customer data management, meter reading and billing, customer collections, and subsidiary ledger.

Urban Flood Forecast Early Warning System

Numerous studies rank Kolkata among the top ten most vulnerable cities in the world due to high exposure to flooding under climate change projections. Kolkata City faces most of its floods from local rains. High spatial inhomogeneity in rainfall distribution makes urban flood forecasting a challenge. Therefore, real-time rainfall and inundation monitoring are more appropriate in the absence of microscale (with resolution of 1-kilometer or better) forecasts.

SES Smart Metering Solution

The SES Electronic Water Meter has the following features:

  • It's made of POLYKETONE (Engineering plastic) / No hazardous materials are used.
  • It could be installed Vertical or Horizontal.
  • NB-IoT, Bluetooth 5.0 and LoRa module inside the meter to communicate with a data logger, mobile application and web server.