Innovative smart metering based applications for water utilities

Abstract

Smart metering (SM) has the potential to improve distribution systems planning and operation and the overall system’s water-energy efficiency. Although numerous water utilities already explore SM systems, the main focus has been water loss management and control of large consumers’ consumption and most of the existing SM technologies are often used in isolation. Therefore, there is a need for a more integrated and complete approach that covers non-current applications of SM data on water and energy consumption. The work presented in this paper identified and validated a set of relevant applications derived from SM real-time data, that are valuable for the water utilities. Moreover, it is presented a method to test the ICT tool development that implements the applications.