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 knowledge processing, storage, operational analytics, validation, and extra. Including NB-IoT performance gives water utilities with the flexibleness they should maximise enterprise worth and streamline operations on a single platform.
At present out there for the Australian and New Zealand markets, Itron’s Temetra platform can seamlessly analyse water knowledge from multi-vendor metres to focus on consumption patterns, determine irregularities and generate billing info in a method that extra precisely displays water utilization.
With the growth of Temetra to incorporate NB-IoT, on prime of current assist for a number of communication protocols, together with LoRa and different water-advanced metering infrastructure community communications, alongside current handbook and automatic metre studying programs, Temetra gives utilities with true interoperability in any respect levels of the transition to a digital future.
Moreover, Temetra features a native system administration system and also can combine with different system administration programs, consolidating applied sciences and knowledge 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 handbook studying to drive elevated working efficiencies, together with diminished threat in associated incidents. Additional, elevated visibility from the transmission mains to the District Metering Areas, is consolidated into one platform to streamline operations. This knowledge allows utilities to cut back prices by discovering and fixing leaks quicker, lowering or eliminating billing complaints and prioritising upkeep and capital spending primarily based on the most effective knowledge out there.
- Maximising Enterprise Worth: Utilities can monitor water utilization with larger knowledge granularity, enabling utilities to realize 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.
- Permits the Digital Transition: Gathering numerous knowledge sources and applied sciences from the sector right into a single unified platform, Temetra allows utilities to decide on the most effective device for the job, eliminating vendor lock-in, and enabling expertise decisions. This reduces integration prices and knowledge silos and permits utilities to undertake or pilot new applied sciences with minimal operational or IT impacts.
“In the present day, over 40 water utilities in Australia depend on Temetra for knowledge assortment, knowledge administration, and knowledge analytics. Including native assist for NB-IoT allows our clients to seamlessly combine this expertise into their enterprise with out including complexity to their structure,” says Paul Nelsen, vice chairman of gross sales, APAC at Itron. “By supporting totally different decisions in communications protocols, and endpoint distributors we’re serving to to streamline our clients’ digital transformation. We stay up for serving to extra utilities use digital applied sciences to create new efficiencies, join communities, and encourage conservation.”