Smart GIS platform that facilitates the digitalization of the integrated urban drainage system

Technological advances in the development of tools for modelling and simulating the behaviour and characteristics of urban drainage networks, such as EPA SWMM, represent a great opportunity for managers and infrastructure planners to analyse and evaluate infrastructure resilience against several scenarios. In this sense, the digitalization of existing urban drainage networks becomes an important bottleneck for many small water entities that having the required data, lack the expertise to complete all the preparatory steps before running the simulation. The solution comes hand in hand with developing an appropriate unique tool that enables a seamless integration of heterogeneous data sources and makes simple their comprehension by the implementation of customised and integrated GIS systems that work as a specialist assistant.