Designing Smart Urban Water Systems: Marcus Quigley at TEDxBeaconStreet

We have built our cities largely assuming that water, when not of drinking water quality and properly contained in pressurized pipes, was mostly a nuisance: something to be avoided on roadways, kept out of basements, or piped to the nearest conveyance that could carry it away as quickly as possible. As a society we are rethinking these assumptions and looking more closely at the choices we make and how the actions we take affect the value of water. Mr. Quigley elucidates the complexity, scale, and hidden challenges in current urban water management as well as shows examples and live demonstrations of disruptive technologies including live feeds from intelligent and forecast integrated rainwater harvesting systems, combined gray water/stormwater systems, green roofs that think on their own, and ambient information systems that tie people to their water environment by integrating information into living spaces.
As Director of Research and Development for Real-Time Services at Geosyntec, Marcus Quigley works on solutions of some of the country's most challenging urban water infrastructure problems through a variety of innovative approaches including physical environmental computing (i.e., treating the physical world as an extension of the virtual internet).
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[@ganeshkrishnan9857]

Congratulations Marcus and team on the formation of OptiRTC, Inc. I am personally excited about the future potential for Opti. Best wishes to you on this new venture.

[@yuehhanhuang2573]

Fundamental revolutional re-inventing our cities, and it has todo with devices you guys all have in the pocket.

[@cupbowlspoonforkknif]

This is cool. We need more of this kind of thinking.

[@m.abu-naiyan9047]

Thanks

[@MsCuancuan]

Marshall?

[@jinyuanmo2960]

lmfaooo

[@danab172]

When I had my parrots...I had more drive for quality of nature as my purpose... Im having a hard time with desire with the loss of them.... You have to do something... more than what you are doing... and better if you care... if you want me to succeed.

[@ksdtsubfil6840]

I wonder if these technologies are available in low-income countries. If not, how can we still utilize water flow control without the automatic feature of Internet of Things?

[@czechgop7631]

It is still possible, but it would have to be done manually.

[@TatendaPhillipTanyara]

I have worked at a wastewater treatment plant and based in your design you can be able to control sewer overflow by having excess discharge directed to ponds for treatment or to have it flow to a constructed wetland. That's in Zimbabwe. Remember plants not meant for food production are as good treatment agents

[@georgewilber9906]

the background is very distracting

[@حسبياللهربي-ب4ث]

hello iam engineer in hydrolics any one could help me plz