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Making the case for investing in smart water networks: Water companies can now deploy multiple sensors and advanced smart meters to give a real-time view of operations. But does the investment case stack up? Elaine Knutt reports from the UWL Summit's Smart Water stream

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• Utility Week, 2021-06, p.34

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2021

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• Niko Louvranos, commercial and product lead for 5G communications at the Digital Catapult, suggested that water companies need to adopt a wider definition of value, visualising benefits across the full spectrum of their activities and into new territory - such as the digital modelling of their systems, benefits flowing in to call centre efficiency, or new partnerships with other utilities built on shared, accurate real-time data. "For every dollar we spent on sewer monitoring, we get about $3 in benefits - in early warning of sewer overflow, the avoidance of massive clean-ups and regulator fines," Sullivan said, describing how triangulating the data from different vibration sensors integrated into customers' meters had allowed it to locate a sewer blockage at one property with pinpoint accuracy. Nearly 4,000 data streams - from customer meters, acoustic loggers, water quality sensors, transient pressure monitors, flow sensors and reservoir levels - feed into an integrated network management so ware platform. [...]this so ware is really trying to do what Apple did, because it's drag and drop, continued from previous page Utility Week Live Summit Utility Week Live Summit united a stellar line up of speakers, solution providers and handpicked, frontline industry leaders in an exclusive closed-door, virtual think tank that focused on the most business critical challenges facing utilities today, including: creating the conditions for innovation; delivering on net zero; transforming field operations and workforce; delivering a smart energy network; delivering a smart water network; managing, maintaining and planning assets; delivering system flexibility and the EV rollout; improving wastewater treatment and resource recovery; delivering the smart meter rollout; and transforming customer service post pandemic.