Itron improves Temetra platform for water utilities in Australia and New Zealand

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 offers water utilities with the pliability they should maximise enterprise worth and streamline operations on a single platform. 

Presently obtainable 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, establish irregularities and generate billing data in a method that extra precisely displays water utilization. 

With the growth 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 handbook and automatic metre studying techniques, Temetra offers utilities with true interoperability in any respect levels of the transition to a digital future. 

Moreover, Temetra features a native machine administration system and also can combine with different machine administration techniques, consolidating applied sciences and knowledge sources right into a single platform.

The advantages of including NB-IoT to Temetra embrace:

• 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 permits utilities to scale back prices by discovering and fixing leaks quicker, lowering or eliminating billing complaints and prioritising upkeep and capital spending based mostly on the most effective knowledge obtainable.
• Maximising Enterprise Worth: Utilities can monitor water utilization with greater knowledge granularity, enabling utilities to realize faster actionable insights to establish non-revenue water for buyer and water distribution system leaks. Utilities can higher prioritise future tasks with enhanced perception into the water system.
• Allows the Digital Transition: Gathering numerous knowledge sources and applied sciences from the sphere right into a single unified platform, Temetra permits utilities to decide on the most effective instrument for the job, eliminating vendor lock-in, and enabling expertise selections. This reduces integration prices and knowledge silos and permits utilities to undertake or pilot new applied sciences with minimal operational or IT impacts.

“At this time, over 40 water utilities in Australia depend on Temetra for knowledge assortment, knowledge administration, and knowledge analytics. Including native help for NB-IoT permits 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 selections in communications protocols, and endpoint distributors we’re serving to to streamline our clients’ digital transformation. We sit up for serving to extra utilities use digital applied sciences to create new efficiencies, join communities, and encourage conservation.”