Itron expands the capabilities of its Temetra platform in Australia and New Zealand to incorporate NB-IoT communications, enabling digital transformation for water utilities. Temetra’s complete providing consists of metre information processing, storage, operational analytics, validation, and extra. Including NB-IoT performance offers water utilities with the flexibleness they should maximise enterprise worth and streamline operations on a single platform.
At the moment accessible for the Australian and New Zealand markets, Itron’s Temetra platform can seamlessly analyse water information from multi-vendor metres to spotlight consumption patterns, determine irregularities and generate billing data in a means that extra precisely displays water utilization.
With the enlargement of Temetra to incorporate NB-IoT, on prime of current help for a number of communication protocols, together with LoRa and different water-advanced metering infrastructure community communications, alongside current guide and automatic metre studying methods, Temetra offers utilities with true interoperability in any respect phases of the transition to a digital future.
Moreover, Temetra features a native system administration system and also can combine with different system administration methods, consolidating applied sciences and information sources right into a single platform.
The advantages of including NB-IoT to Temetra embody:
- Driving Operational Efficiencies: Utilities can now remotely learn water meters as a substitute of guide studying to drive elevated working efficiencies, together with decreased danger in associated incidents. Additional, elevated visibility from the transmission mains to the District Metering Areas, is consolidated into one platform to streamline operations. This information allows utilities to scale back prices by discovering and fixing leaks sooner, lowering or eliminating billing complaints and prioritising upkeep and capital spending based mostly on the very best information accessible.
- Maximising Enterprise Worth: Utilities can monitor water utilization with larger information granularity, enabling utilities to achieve faster actionable insights to determine non-revenue water for buyer and water distribution system leaks. Utilities can higher prioritise future initiatives with enhanced perception into the water system.
- Allows the Digital Transition: Gathering numerous information sources and applied sciences from the sphere right into a single unified platform, Temetra allows utilities to decide on the very best device for the job, eliminating vendor lock-in, and enabling know-how decisions. This reduces integration prices and information silos and permits utilities to undertake or pilot new applied sciences with minimal operational or IT impacts.
“As we speak, over 40 water utilities in Australia depend on Temetra for information assortment, information administration, and information analytics. Including native help for NB-IoT allows our prospects to seamlessly combine this know-how into their enterprise with out including complexity to their structure,” says Paul Nelsen, vice chairman of gross sales, APAC at Itron. “By supporting completely different decisions in communications protocols, and endpoint distributors we’re serving to to streamline our prospects’ digital transformation. We look ahead to serving to extra utilities use digital applied sciences to create new efficiencies, join communities, and encourage conservation.”