Digital Twinning of Secure Water Treatment Facilities (NSoE)

This project aims to develop a digital-twin system concept, termed as “Smart Digital Water Twins (SDWT)”, to protect and optimize critical water infrastructures. This project is in collaboration with CAD-IT Consultants (Asia). SDWT shall build on the ThingWorx commercial platform for real-time data communication and management. It will leverage on advanced machine learning algorithms for predictive analysis, to provide effective and instant safeguards against operational anomalies and cyber/physical-attacks in critical water treatment infrastructures. The concept of SDWT will be examined independently in SUTD’s lab-scale Secure Water Treatment (SWaT) iTrust Testbed. Predictive maintenance for the simulated units will be carried out to evaluate the amount of material and energy savings for the known intake conditions, and cyber/physical-attacks will also be simulated with and without simultaneous technical anomalies to test the capability of SDWT in protecting the system operations.