Happy Hump Day, readers.
Today, we’re covering news that involves Yorkshire Water and Netmore Group.
If you’re familiar with both, that’s fantastic. Feel free to scroll down to the news they announced earlier this week.
For any unfamiliar, here’s the scoop on each:
Yorkshire Water is a British water supply and treatment utility company that services West and South Yorkshire, most of North Yorkshire, the East Riding of Yorkshire, and parts of North Lincolnshire and Derbyshire in England. In each of these areas, people trust the company to manage the supply of clean drinking water, to take away wastewater, and to tend to the region’s coast and countryside.(In fact, since 1989, Yorkshire Water has also made many of its locations accessible to the public; these not only cover water, but extensive woodlands and moorlands, too.)
The long-story-short of it?
Yorkshire Water considers itself an integral part of Yorkshire life that communities (and the environment, in general) rely upon. That’s approximately 5 million customers and more than 140,000 businesses, at least; suffice it to say, the Yorkshire Water team must stay up with the times in order to properly support.
And that’s where Netmore Group enters the picture.
Netmore Group is a dedicated IoT operator and all-around effective smart solutions provider. The team at Netmore Group believes that the world, quote, “has never been in a greater need of sustainable solutions than it is today.” Digitalization, in their eyes, is clearly a hefty part of the answer to the sustainability challenge; trustworthy, scalability-focused, resource-efficient technologies that create significant impacts for businesses and society overall is clearly the way to go. On top of all that, Netmore Group’s tirelessly future-proofed solutions are actively being utilized across Europe; they’re already in the process of building what is becoming, quote, “the fastest-growing Pan-European LoRaWAN network,” making the digitally powered protection of vital environmental resources a bona fide economic imperative. From logistics applications and energy monitoring to utilities and property management, the acceleration of innovation and resource conservation in tandem is the Netmore Group special, in a manner of speaking.
Now, here’s why we’re talking about both of these organizations:
This week, Yorkshire Water announced its selection of Netmore Group as its lead partner “to exchange existing meters that are reaching end-of-operational-life status with 1.3 million smart water meters across the Yorkshire region.” Though this is subject to final legal determinations (due in December of this year), the implementation of this meter program looks great, even at the onset. Under the terms of the agreement, Netmore Group will lead a group of suppliers to deliver, install, commission and maintenance this Advanced Metering Infrastructure (AMI).
This is why discussions involving smart digitalization (especially for water supply systems) remain crucial as societies transition to more sustainable ways of living and working. By providing Yorkshire Water with this AMI, Netmore Group is teeing up positive impacts for hundreds of thousands of households and businesses. Consumption data is set to be collected and delivered with ease, and Yorkshire Water would retain full control (while gaining greater insights that will be necessary for improving the efficiency of water distribution in the future).
Furthermore (since we spoke about LoRaWAN, as well), this AMI is connected by Netmore’s LoRaWAN, a “densified” IoT network enabling its Data-as-a-Service (DaaS) capabilities. And according to Yorkshire Water, this project also covers “installation of new meters to unmetered properties, as well as the upgrading of existing meter properties.” That would provide a reliable and accurate flow of data for Yorkshire Water, allowing the team to track important KPIs. This, for example, could help utilities proactively detect leaks (i.e. up 50% by 2050), reduce consumption per customer (i.e. representing a Per Capita Consumption, or PCC, goal of 110 liters per day), and reduce overall operational costs.
“Following a rigorous evaluation process and procurement analysis,” explained Adam Smith, Manager of Smart Networks and Metering Transformation at Yorkshire Water, “we are confident in the choice of Netmore and its partners for our meter exchange program, as they collectively have the ability to help us deliver our ambitious goals and success criteria related to leakage, water efficiency, customer experience, and operational carbon emissions.”
“This deal is an exciting new milestone for Netmore as we continue to expand our water utility initiatives across Europe and at a time when utilities and municipalities around the world are migrating to sensor-based solutions capable of providing new and valuable datasets for measuring and conserving water for their customers and to address environmental concerns,” added Ove Anebygd, CEO of Netmore Group. “We are very proud that Yorkshire Water has trusted Netmore to lead their AMI initiatives.”
At this time, Yorkshire Water and Netmore Group’s contract will span an initial term of five years (plus data services for the meters installed up to 2045).
Edited by
Greg Tavarez
