Challenges and objectives

BIOFOS takes care of wastewater treatment in Copenhagen, whilst HOFOR supplies 1.1 million customers with drinking water, district heating and wastewater management. Current challenges are:

• real-time control of stormwater being hampered by lack of accuracy of the wastewater treatment plant’s flow forecast 
• lack of interoperability between the data management systems of BIOFOS and HOFOR

The objectives for Copenhagen are to:

• reduce environmental impacts and flooding
• improve the stability and biological capacity of the wastewater treatment plant (WWTP)

Therefore, digital-water.city will reduce environmental impacts and flooding through flow forecasting and real-time control between the sewer network and a wastewater treatment plant.