A consortium comprising Cambrensis, Cardiff University, IBM, APEM, Environment Ageny Wales, Tata Steel & EADS propose to apply and test an intelligent ICT system for "real time abstraction & discharge monitoring". This will create a flexible system to optimise water resource management and replace the current outdated licensing system. An innovative "just-in time" ability will be applied to create significant water savings, whilst also enhancing delivery on EU Water Framework Directive obligations. Our project is primarily about providing tools to enable stakeholders to capture the integrated nature of catchment water management that will promote behavioural change through first hand knowledge of their actions, consequences and the economic & sustainable gains that can be made. With such knowledge is the ability to then change the way we use and protect our water resources.

Cambrensis developed (on a previous TSB project), a new interactive dependency modelling technique; that enables organisations to model and monitor, in real time, the chain of critical dependencies they rely on. The approach is top down, just in time, burrowing, fractal like into the detailed statuses of just the vital entities. It allows tracking of explicitly defined, externally provisioned state dependencies; and the calculation of the degree to which they are affected by failures of these dependencies.Together with the software developer (Intradependency Ltd.) and The Open Group, they have in this project, successfully developed an Open Standard to enable sharing of this trusted risk and dependency data to considerably anhance the power and scope of the methodology.

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