ENOLA – facilitating decision making with a web based water information system

For a thorough understanding our water resources and enabling stakeholders to make informed decisions, it is vital to have a detailed and always up to date knowledge on all components of the water cycle with their interactions. To be able to achieve this, it is important to meet certain prerequisites:

• having an extensive monitoring of all components of the water cycle with a high degree of automation
• having the data stored centrally in a homogeneous way, thereby assuring immediate access from all stakeholders to exactly the same dataset
• being able to quickly and easily visualize and analyze all relevant data in an integrated way

However, current monitoring systems and workflows often do not meet these prerequisites. Commonly, data storage is decentralized and inconsistent while software solutions are fragmented to data management and analysis tools with rigid data exchange formats. As a result, experts and researchers are regularly forced to waste numerous hours on formatting and organizing dataset before being able to approach decision makers. In addition, time is wasted by the necessity of manual data exchange.

To address these challenges, we are developing ENOLA, a web-based water information system. ENOLA is built upon the mentioned prerequisites: It facilitates the monitoring of all components of the water cycle by enabling automated raw data processing and plausibility checks, centralizes data storage in a cloud solution and integrates analysis tools into a user centered interface. The service is designed for collaboratively working on one common dataset, no matter if directly from the field, the office or a conference. Yet, detailed control over access permissions accommodates security needs. It is possible to grant access to your data to externals, as well as including readily available public datasets into your analysis. Standart as well as highly-specialized visualization and analysis tools enable users to quickly assess the system state. Furthermore, data can also be directly be accessed in external software via an API.

Our solution provides a modern and efficient approach to water data monitoring, tailored to meet the needs of research institutes, authorities, water supply companies and environmental consultancies. With ENOLA, organizations can enhance water resource management and decision-making as everyone is immediately on the same page.