Brown and Caldwell announced Michael Karl has been recognized by The Smart Water Networks Forum (SWAN) with an outstanding leadership award for his contributions toward advancing digital twin architecture, a breakthrough optimization technology for the water industry. Karl received the award for leading a SWAN panel of worldwide digital technologists, modeling experts, and engineers from 2019 through 2020 to develop the industry-first reference architecture for digital twin. The architecture serves as a base map for utilities on planning and implementing digital twins and continues to be referenced throughout the industry today.
The leading global hub for the smart water sector, SWAN, is a non-profit that brings together leading international water utilities, solution providers, academics, investors, regulators, and other industry experts to accelerate the awareness and adoption of data-driven solutions in water and wastewater networks globally.