One of the world’s largest water smart metering projects have selected Sensus to support one of the world’s largest water smart metering campaigns initiated by the Department of Energy and Climate Change (DECC) in Britain, by supplying the core technology to support the rollout of smart meters to 10 million homes and small business in the north region of England.

Partnering with Arqiva, and their SmartReach solution partners, Sensus attributes their success due to their advanced FlexNet long range radio technologies, substantiated by the fact that Sensus has over 16 million end points deployed in the US and Canada.

Basil Bold, managing director of Sensus South Africa said “This is a global coup for Sensus. It is one the largest contracts awarded outside of the United States and is indicative of how the future management and metering of water in Britain has embraced smart technology by the selection of our iPerl smart meter for this project”.

“The benefits for Britain are a reduction in consumption related energy costs and lower CO²  emission. This validates the premise that our Sensus technology has no borders and easily reaches smart meters and other devices in hard to reach locations. The way forward is the integration and monitoring of not only water, but also utilities such as gas, electricity allowing for the management and dissemination of relevant information direct to consumers via the web and cellphones”.

“Our FlexNet technology offers superior customer servicing with pinpoint accuracy, near real time metering and a much longer accurate lifespan than conventional water meters. If South African local authorities and property developers undertook a leap of faith and embraced smart technology, as is the trend in the rest of the world, there would be more revenue generated through more accurate billing as well as a reduction in non-revenue water due to timeous consumer and municipal alerts offered by this technology” said Bold.

Sensus regard themselves as the smart water company who provide real world, proven solutions of high-value metering in the form of Automated Meter Reading (AMR) and Advanced Metering Infrastructure (AMI) system solutions for water. In 2012 Sensus conducted research into the effectiveness of smart water technology in over 15 countries. The resulting White Paper, Water 20/20: Bringing Smart Water Networks into Focus, report stated that smart water networks can offer savings of up $12.5 billion per year, globally, and that leaked water cost utilities an estimated $9.6 billion per year. The savings that result from the utilisation of smart water technology can enable the utilities to reinvest some 5% back into their budget to improve water networks and help address the global water scarcity crisis.

In the USA over 1,000,000 iPerl smart meters have been installed under the umbrella of the SensusFlexnet Long Range Radio smart grid which incorporates many different end points such electricity, gas and even street lighting.