General Outline: Integrating Physics Principles with Smart Water Management and Clean Energy Transitions

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10.2991/978-94-6239-606-7_4How to use a DOI?

Keywords

Smart Water Management; IoT Sensors; Thermodynamics; Photoelectric Effect; Hydropower; Energy Efficiency

Abstract

The accelerating global demand for water and energy highlights the need for sustainable systems governed by fundamental physical laws. This review explores how smart water management strategies intersect with clean energy transitions, focussing on the core physics laws that define both systems. Smart water infrastructures depend on principles of fluid mechanics and thermodynamics to regulate flow, maintain pressure stability, and minimize energy expenditure.

Modern IoT- enabled sensing devices based on ultrasonic wave propagation, electromagnetic induction, and piezoelectric effects facilitate accurate leak detection and continuous monitoring, thereby reducing hydraulic losses. Clean energy technologies such as solar photocells, wind turbines, and hydropower installations function through core physical mechanisms: photon-electron interactions, kinetic-to-electrical energy conversion, and gravitational potential energy transformation. Their integration with water systems connects with the First and Second Laws of Thermodynamics, ensuring energy conservation while acknowledging unavoidable entropy generation. These findings demonstrate that physics -based system integration enhances the reliability, efficiency and sustainability of future water – energy infrastructure.

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TY  - CONF
AU  - D. Jeevitha
AU  - P. Padmalatha
AU  - Kiranmai Tamma
AU  - G. Suswara Deepika
AU  - P. Bhavani
PY  - 2026
DA  - 2026/03/05
TI  - General Outline: Integrating Physics Principles with Smart Water Management and Clean Energy Transitions
BT  - Proceedings of the International Conference on Resilient Innovations for Subsistence Environment (IC-RISE-2025)
PB  - Atlantis Press
SP  - 23
EP  - 28
SN  - 2468-5747
UR  - https://doi.org/10.2991/978-94-6239-606-7_4
DO  - 10.2991/978-94-6239-606-7_4
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