Matthias Paetsch, Dr.-Ing. Civil Engineering

Matthias Paetsch, Dr.-Ing. Civil Engineering

About

I am Matthias Pätsch, 58 years old, a water management and hydraulic engineer by training. I have worked in the water sector for more than 25 years, in various positions, in different companies and in different contexts. During this time I have learned more than I could teach an I was also very lucky to work in different countries with so many different people. There was one thing that has grown steadily over these years, and that was my own passion for so many different water problems and especially the solutions, on which I was fortunate to work with others, and I have met so many passionate, extremely well educated and very dedicated men and women throughout the water industry.

 

I am convinced that this time has prepared me extremely well for my current position as Business Development Manager for Water Management at IAV. I hold this position for IAV, a german

engineering service provider to the automotive industry, since 2016.

 

IAV has the idea to work in new business fields with its procedures, technologies and methods, e.g. water management.

 

My first project in this very new field of work for IAV was the use of vehicle sensors to support water management in mapping heavy rain events. Here, we use the rain sensors and the wiper speed during rain events to obtain and condense information on heavy rain events. The obtained vehicle data are merged with data from other sources (radar, pluvios) and mapped in a resulting multi-source precipitation map.

The next approaches from automotive engineering are the application of control and regulation strategies to water management systems. For this purpose we can draw on a wide range of approaches, experience and knowledge from the control systems of automotive engineering. These maps are used in further processing to determine discharge scenarios. The benefit of the use, the additional use of vehicles as a source of rainfall events, lies in the temporal and spatial compression of the previously available information by moving vehicles.

Another approach to transfer technological approaches from the automotive context to water management is the development of event-controlled sampling in the sewerage system.

Data technology, digitisation approaches, data analysis and the use of IoT platforms are relevant to all projects. These are all areas in which IAV has acquired experience, knowledge and competence and has applied these in projects in the automotive context.

 

Increasingly now also in the water industry.

 

Please contact me for any questions related to water management. I will not be able to answer them all, but together we will find answers or we will find someone who can. Cheers. Matthias Pätsch

 

 

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Industry experience

Education: PhD

Seniority: Manager, Director, Professor

Years of experience: 20 years or above

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