1. Optimization through the
Internet of Stormwater (IoS)
Lessons Learned from Austin, Texas

2. Acknowledgements

3. Focus of Presentation
-Internet of Things for Stormwater
-Challenges associated with the Internet of
Stormwater
-Future opportunities for Civil Engineering

4. Mission Statement
From the Plenary: Why are we here?
2008-2014
Get my hands dirty, and change the world.
2015-
Bring Civil Engineering into the 21st Century.

5. What is State of the Art?
Innovation
Acceleration
Adaptation
Collaboration
Dedication
Aspiration
How about Revolutionary?

6. World Smart Cities Expo
Energy, Transportation, Resiliency, Clean Water
Next to nothing on Stormwater

7. The Face of Opportunity

9. How it Works

10. API: Application Programming
Interface
-A modern way for different programs to
exchange information
-It means we don’t have to develop the full
stack
-Promotes leverage and collaboration with
other software applications

11. Something Useful!

12. How Can We Engage in IoS?
-Don’t wait for Google X
-Get to know our local Universities
-Meet computer scientists and electrical
engineers
-Hire brilliant interns to work on hard problems!

13. Bridging the Gap
-If you’re in this room, you’re an expert at LID
-Computer Scientists will never be Civil
Engineers…and vice versa
-Opportunity to leverage a different skill set
-Most students would rather work on real
environmental problems

14. What is your most exciting problem?

15. Conferences: The Morning After
That sounds like a lot of work.
-Few things worth while are easy
I’ll just do it the same way I always have.
-Prone to risk aversion
It’s too fancy, too many moving parts.
-Modern, elegant design approaches

16. Endless Possibilities
-New ways of public engagement: Public displays showing
the real-time impact of LID
-Organic analysis (metadata): Let the public provide input
through citizen scientists
-Network-level effects: Real-time analysis of the watershed
-Continually driven by ubiquitous sensing

17. Come Talk to Us
Scott Landers, EIT, CPESC
slanders@optirtc.com
Marcus Quigley, PE, CPESC, D.WRE
mquigley@optirtc.com