Numerous studies have established a correlation between sociodemographic characteristics and water usage, identifying population as a primary independent variable in mid- to long-term demand forecasting. Recent dramatic sociodemographic changes, including urban concentration-rural depopulation, low birth rates-aging population, and the rise in single-person households, are expected to impact water demand and supply patterns. This underscores the necessity for operational and managerial changes in existing water supply systems. While sociodemographic characteristics are regularly surveyed, the conducted surveys use aggregate units that do not align with the actual system. Consequently, many water demand forecasts have been conducted at the administrative district level without adequately considering the water supply system. This study presents an upward water demand forecasting model that accurately reflects real water facilities and consumers. The model comprises three key steps. Firstly, Statistics Korea’s SGIS (Statistical Geological Information System) data was reorganized at the DMA level. Secondly, DMAs were classified using the SOM (Self-Organizing Map) algorithm to consider differences in water facilities and consumer characteristics. Lastly, water demand forecasting employed the PCR (Principal Component Regression) method to address multicollinearity and overfitting issues. The performance evaluation of this model was conducted for DMAs classified as rural areas due to the insufficient number of DMAs. The estimation results indicate that the correlation coefficients exceeded 0.9, and the MAPE remained within approximately 10% for the test dataset. This method is expected to be useful for reorganization plans, such as the expansion and contraction of existing facilities.

In recent years, Smart Water Grid (SWG) concept has globally emerged over the last decade and also gained significant recognition in South Korea. Especially, there has been growing interest in water demand forecast and this has led to various studies regarding energy saving and improvement of water supply reliability. In this regard, this study aims to develop a nonlinear ensemble model for hourly water demand forecasting which allow us to estimate uncertainties across different model classes. The concepts was demonstrated through application to observed from water plant (A) in the South Korea. Various statistics (e.g. the efficiency coefficient, the correlation coefficient, the root mean square error, and a maximum error rate) were evaluated to investigate model efficiency. The ensemble based model with an cross-validate prediction procedure showed better predictability for water demand forecasting at different temporal resolutions. In particular, the performance of the ensemble model on hourly water demand data showed promising results against other individual prediction schemes.

In this paper, an effort is exerted to the problem of short-term domestic demand forecasting of mineral water. The seasonal ARIMA models are considered in model building and in making the forecast. As it turned out, the model fits well into the given time-series data in so far as modeling procedures are relevant. A fitted model as well as modeling procedure is presented in some detail.

본 연구에서는 Wavelet Transform과 Support Vector Machine (SVM)을 결합한 Hybrid 상수도 수요량 예측 모형을 개발하였다. Wavelet Transform 방법을 활용하여 다양한 스케일이 존재하는 상수도 수요량 시계열을 분해하여 단순한 형태의 시계열로 변환하는데 이용하였으며, 비선형 예측모형인 SVM은 이들 단순화된 시계열을 예측하는데 활용하여 예측성능을 극대화시키는 방안을 수립하였다. 본 연구에서는 상수도 수요량 자료에서 내재되어 있는 주기의 특성과 비선형 예측모형의 장점을 서로 연계한 해석이 가능하였으며 시각적인 검토 및 모든 통계지표에서 개선된 예측결과를 확인할 수 있었다. 특히, 기존 ARIMA 모형 계열에서 나타나는 자기예측문제를 상당부분 개선한 결과를 보여줌으로서 실질적인 수요량 예측모형으로서 활용이 가능할 것으로 판단된다.