Spark IoT (Internet of Things) has today announced a
partnership with Iota, a subsidiary of South East Water (the
water authority for the South East of Melbourne in
Australia) to bring its enterprise IoT platform Lentic® and
a new generation of smart water meter technology to local
councils and water utilities in Aotearoa.
In
Australia, Iota is well progressed in a project to deploy
70,000 smart water meters for the Toowoomba Regional Council
in Queensland. The meters and associated data will be
managed by Lentic®, Iota’s fit-for-water IoT enterprise
platform to give the Council accurate data and real-time
water usage updates as well as early detection of customer
leaks, leading to water savings and improved planning
decisions.
The Lentic solution is a key pillar in the
Councils digital transition as they embrace IoT and the
integration of data across various enterprise systems to
provide valuable insights, help residents monitor water
usage, and enable the Council to proactively manage its
water network.
Philippe Boulanger, Spark IoT
Growth Lead says IoT and other high-tech solutions
are a natural enabler in helping local councils and
communities in Aotearoa to more effectively manage water as
an essential resource, “As we continue to face the impacts
of climate change and more frequent and extreme weather
events, it is critical to better understand how precious
natural resources such as water is sourced, treated, and
distributed. Advanced digital technologies such as IoT is an
important enabler of these processes due to near real-time
monitoring and detection capabilities of these devices over
a dedicated, nationwide NB-IoT network. IoT is now reaching
a level of maturity where they have the potential to solve
important challenges where it wasn’t possible in the
past.”
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Daniel Sullivan, Iota CEO
says, “As water authorities deploy large numbers of IoT
devices to monitor water and wastewater networks, it is
critical to manage the devices and to be able to trust the
unprecedented volumes of data coming in. Lentic is the
enterprise IoT platform designed by a water utility, with
in-built rules and alarms to validate the data and support
the many different use cases such as automated customer leak
notifications. Water is our most precious resource, and the
best way we can protect it is to be able to accurately
monitor it and the networks in which it flows.”
Last
year, Spark IoT also announced a partnership with GreenBe,
an Australian cloud-based customer engagement solution,
which utilises data from Lentic to display consumption
dashboards for customers and notifications when water usage
goes beyond a certain threshold. Lentic and Greenbe are
effectively deployed by the Toowoomba Regional Council for
their smart water meter
program.
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