SMART WATER METERING
A LOOMING WATER EMERGENCY IS HEADED OUR WAY
Engineering News – October 2023
- South Africa is heading towards water Scarcity by 2025 and will have a water deficit of 1.6 Billion to 2.7 Billion cubic meters by 2030.
- We consume 30% more water per person than the global
Average. - Municipalities are losing up to 50% or more of the water they supply.
- Our cost of water has risen at 4 times the inflation rate since 1995,
even higher than the cost of electricity.
CHALLENGES COMMUNITIES ARE FACING.
IF YOU CAN’T MEASURE IT, YOU CANNOT MANAGE IT.
- In eThekwini, many homes don’t even have water meters, because the municipality doesn’t have meters to install, maintain or replace faulty or damaged meters with.
- Municipal Water Meter Reading is typically performed quarterly or more recently bi-annually, sometimes even less frequently.
- The rest of the time your bill is an assumed average.
- Manual meter counting is prone to errors leading to time consuming disputes.
- An undetected leak can thus run for months, amounting to eye watering amounts by the time your next actual read / verified meter bill arrives.
PROPERTY OWNERS ARE LOSING MILLIONS TO WATER LEAKS.
- Water pipes are under constant pressure. Once a leak starts it doesn’t stop.
- Water leaks can go unnoticed for months.
- Leaking Water is like pouring money down the drain.
- Property owners and Body Corporates are finding themselves facing shock bills amounting to Millions, as a result of undetected water leaks and the intermittent counting of meters.
- The ONLY way to mitigate this risk is to check and count your water meter daily.
- IF YOU CANNOT MEASURE IT, YOU CANNOT MANAGE IT.
- There is an Automated Solution available..
South Africa is a water scarce nation, receiving insufficient and unreliable rainfall that is less than half the global average annual rainfall. Coupled with this we are facing the collapse of our water infrastructure system due to neglect and decline of government services.
The cost of water over the past 2 decades has increased at a far higher rate than even electricity, which gets far more media attention, having increased at more than double the average inflation rate.
eThekwini Municipality loses 57% of the water they buy and distribute through water leaks. Private property pipe networks suffer the same issues as Utility Supply.
As infrastructure ages, so the risk of water losses increases each year, not only for Utility supply and distribution but also in private property consumption.
Water pipes are underground, out of site, under constant pressure and as time goes by, ground movement, corrosion, degradation of piping networks leads to water leaks and burst pipes that can go unnoticed for extended periods.
As Government Services continue to decline, water and electricity meter counting is happening less and less frequently, resulting in the Utility supplier just applying averages to monthly bills which is leading to disputes.
Consumers are being forced to take control over their utility consumption and monitor and meter their own consumption directly.
Underground water losses are difficult to detect, often resulting in the first indication that there is a problem when your next water bill arrives at R50 000 or R100 000 or more.
You cannot manage what you cannot measure, so the first step in taking control over your costs and mitigating the risk of losses is to automate the measurement and management of your water infrastructure.
The AUS-iot Smart Automated Water Monitoring system manages your water consumption reporting for you.
Our Smart Water Solution measures your consumption 24/7 in real time, uploading your meter count to our online servers hourly.
As infrastructure ages, so the risk of water losses increases each year, not only for Utility supply and distribution but also in private property consumption.
Water pipes are underground, out of site, under constant pressure and as time goes by, ground movement, corrosion, degradation of piping networks leads to water leaks and burst pipes that can go unnoticed for extended periods.
As Government Services continue to decline, water and electricity meter counting is happening less and less frequently, resulting in the Utility supplier just applying averages to monthly bills which is leading to disputes.
Consumers are being forced to take control over their utility consumption and monitor and meter their own consumption directly.
Underground water losses are difficult to detect, often resulting in the first indication that there is a problem when your next water bill arrives at R50 000 or R100 000 or more.
You cannot manage what you cannot measure, so the first step in taking control over your costs and mitigating the risk of losses is to automate the measurement and management of your water infrastructure.
The AUS-iot Smart Automated Water Monitoring system manages your water consumption reporting for you.
Our Smart Water Solution measures your consumption 24/7 in real time, uploading your meter count to our online servers hourly.
SMART WATER SOLUTIONS FOR EFFECTIVE MANAGEMENT, MEASUREMENT AND MONITORING OF RESIDENTIAL AND COMMERCIAL PROPERTIES
DEVELOPED FOR INDIVIDUAL HOMES, COMMUNITY LIVING SCHEMES AND COMMERCIAL PROPERTIES.
- Community Living Schemes often have to bill residents by way of allotment, irrespective of water usage, with the result that low usage residents subsidise their heavy usage neighbours.
- No individual responsibility, penalty or financial incentive for individuals to save water.
When individual consumption based billing is done, consumption naturally reduces. Some complexes have reported savings of up to 40%. - Estates that have individual unit meters have to manage and manually count the meters themselves. This requires manpower, administration, is costly and subject to errors.
- Our Smart Water Metering Solution gives you real time cloud based water consumption management and leak detection.
Features of the System
- Property management made simple through automation. Live monitoring, automated meter counting , automated billing, minimal administration, no human errors.
- SECURE PORTAL LOGIN and DATA STORAGE with 24/7/365 access from anywhere in the world.
- REAL-TIME and historic billing information on demand.
- Meter Counts are stored on each device and uploaded to the cloud hourly, immune to load shedding.
- Daily limits set per meter. If the limit is reached, a push alert is sent to the user’s phone and an email is sent. You are never far away from being alerted to potential problems.
- Hourly, Daily, Monthly consumption data and graphs.
- Analytics for leak and burst detection that saves money, prevents water loss and property damage with direct notification.
- Tracking of unaccounted for water, and under / over recovery report for Estate/Building based on verification with incoming municipal meter reading.
- EXCEPTIONS - Tracking of exceptions, such as high, low, or no usages.
- EXCEPTIONS - Tracking of exceptions, such as high, low, or no usages.
- Monitoring via PC or Mobile Web-App or Android Mobile app. Web App functions in the same way as mobile app, can be configured as shortcut to desktop.