Significance of xOps Functions in Sustainability of Water Management through AI/ML

Water Management Sustainability

Water is one of the most essential natural resources for life eco system in the earth. Rapid population and urbanization are increasing the water demand. 3% of the entire water resource is freshwater and 1/3rd. of that is available for agriculture and urban requirement. Over-all water demand is increased by 600% in recent years.

Sustainability consists of satisfying the needs of current generations without compromising the needs of future generations. Sustainable water management means the ability in meeting the water needs of the present without compromising the need for the future generations. It also should ensure the balance among the economic growth, environmental care, and social well-being. A few probable solutions are

·       A sustainable surface water impact assessment should be performed to make water drinkable.

·       Ground water supply should be consistent.

·       Refrain from water pollution for human and animal use.

AI/ML can play a vital role here to focus to assess, detect, predict, and automatically heal the issues and keep the available finite source of water sustainable.

AI/ML Implementation for Sustainable Water Management

AI/ML is one of the vastly used modern technologies applied in all the fields in every industry. When we are talking about sustainability of water management, it can be used to analyse data of wastewater treatment and provide predictive recommendations so that plants can get clean water at the optimally best-operating costs. IoT sensors are plugged in many water-utility systems to continuously extract data for the AI-enabled program to track, predict and respond to water demand levels in the most effective, efficient and sustainable way. 

·       Melbourne Water, an Australian water utility organization, calibrated the optimal usage of water through pumps automatically which eventually saves cost by 20%. (as per World Future energy Summit). This not only supports to control the water wastage; but takes care of the water conservation as well.

·       As per the study, 7 Bn Gallons of drinking water/day are being wasted only in the US in contrast 60% of the population the Earth has little or no clean drinking water. To avoid water wastage, AI/ML can play a significant role to send alerts and stops system to flow water from pump to taps automatically after analysing the water flow, individual’s water usage fashion or water wastage pattern on real time.

·       Agriculture is the most water consuming sector. As per the UN report, 605 of the water being used in agriculture gets wasted. Crop management decisions based on climate, temperature, humidity, rainfall, wind speed etc. can be analysed by AI/ML to decide the water requirement for agriculture demographically.

·       AI can further enhance current systems by identifying bacteria, harmful microorganisms, chemicals, poisonous & fatal substances mixed in water to protect life from contaminants.

What is xOps?

xOps is an umbrella of all kinds of ops. It includes DevOps, DataOps, MLOps, AIOps, PlatformOps, SecOps, NetOps etc.

·       DevOps is the unification and automation of processes that increases the ability of an organization to deliver applications and services at high velocity than that of using traditional software development and infrastructure management processes.

·       DataOps is the collaborative practice that focuses on the integration of automation of data flows among the data management systems and consumers.

·       MLOps is the process to focus on productionizing machine learning models and then maintaining and monitoring them in regular basis.

·       AIOps is one of the top strategic technology trends that leverages enabling the concurrent use of variety of data sources, multiple data collection methods, analytical technologies (batch, near real-time or real-time) and machine learning to automate IT ops processes.

·       PlatformOps streamlines the processes like curating, maintaining, connecting, and securing the platform that provides development of xOps (mainly DevOps, SecOps, NetOps).

·       SecOps improves the level of protection by prioritizing security of the pipeline through monitoring and assessing risk and protecting corporate assets.

·       NetOps focuses on the strategy to maximize agility, velocity, and automation for rapid deployment through automation, virtualization, and orchestration.

How xOps helps AI/ML to implement Sustainability on Water Management more effectively?

DevOps scales AI through operationalizing AI/ML models from design to production. DevOps will facilitate CI/CD/CT and the monitoring of models through reducing time for non-value-added activities in AI Delivery, accelerating data cleansing, ensuring scaling of models on demand and monitoring, and deploying stable and reliable models. e.g., in the case of sustainable water management, the data features of water in some demography can change frequently and hence the current AI/ML model needs frequent retraining through MLOps. The renewed model needs DevOps support to productionize in different environments through CI/CD/CT.

The huge amount of data is generated for the water sustainability programs which needs appropriate management to get the inference through AI/ML. DataOps unifies these huge datasets, governs them, and delivers scalable AI/ML solutions for a seamless data management and operational optimization. In addition, these huge sustainability data are collected through different data ingestion strategies from diversified primary and secondary sources.

Data are extracted, sometimes, are pushed into the system. Ingestion might be in batch or real-time mode. Sometimes CDC needs to be implemented as well. Metadata management and schema validations are also part of accurate data extraction. All of these are taken care of by AIOps along with the ML automation and implementation of relevant ops processes.

Platform on which this AI/ML models built on water management datasets runs, needs to be curated, maintained, and secured for faster and secured processing. PlatformOps streamlines these processes.

There is always a chance of the AI/ML models to be stolen or being contaminated by injecting unwanted and irrelevant data by the intruders, SecOps and NetOps play also a vital role to protect such scenarios automatically in continuous fashion which essentially help the AI/ML models and water management data in safe hands and extracts and transfers data through a secured channel.

However, there are many more functions under the xOps umbrella like CloudOps, GitOps, BizDevOps etc.

In summary, xOps plays a very influential role to orchestrate data and analytics operations including AI/ML discipline. AI/ML, on the other hand, is one of the most significant technologies to implement sustainability on water management. Clearly, xOps, AI/ML and sustainability are eventually linked together and AI/ML implementation for better sustainability (water management in this case) depends largely on different xOps functions.

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