Smart Water
Smart metering system for above and below ground water systems monitoring
The opportunity for a water utility to leverage wireless technology to transform its operations, reduce costs and drive new revenue streams is enormous by enabling the cost-effective collection and analysis of data from across the service area. In addition to supporting applications such as automated meter reading, remote leak detection and water quality monitoring, wireless networks can also provide both consumer and enterprise customers with the actionable data needed to monitor and control water use. These innovative applications are just the beginning as utilities and their partners discover new ways to optimize water assets.
However, the large geographic areas over which water utility assets are distributed along with the sheer number of potential endpoints create enormous challenges for any wireless network. These challenges are compounded by the large number of underground assets as well as the requirement that many applications operate in the field for 20 years on battery power alone. Finally, the intelligent wireless network must also support the business case for the application and therefore fall within defined capital and operational cost parameters which are constantly under pressure with competing infrastructure demands.
On-Ramp Wireless’ Ultra-Link Processing™ (“ULP”) system provides water utilities with a strategic wireless communications platform that dramatically improves the ROI for current sensor and metering applications, while offering the flexibility and scalability to add future applications without a substantial investment in additional network infrastructure.
Applications
Water metering
Leak detection
Multiple I/O remote sensing
Gas metering
Electrical metering