Grant: Engage Grants Program

LuminUltra is a global leader in user-friendly microbiological control solutions across water-related industries.They have developed effective technology for measuring and controlling the ""health"" of a variety of watertreatment operations. To compliment this technology, the additional capability of analytics has recently beenadded, via release of their LumiCalc software. LumiCalc lets users explore water treatment data, trackingimportant variables over time and identifying correlations between these variables. This proposal seeks toaugment the statistical functionality, through the adaptation of recent time-series models to the wastewatercontext. In particular, the ""nowcasting"" model (Scott & Varian, 2012) provides a mechanism for predicting atarget time series of interest using other measured time series, and identifying the most important predictors.This methodology was developed in a very different context (economic modelling) and will be adapted toLuminUltra's area of application. This will include the extension of the search for important predictors tolagged time series (i.e., using measurements made in the past to predict the present). Software implementingthe nowcasting model will be adapted to this context, and research outcomes demonstrated using representativedata from LuminUltra applications.