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Water Distribution - Water and Wastewater
Managing a water distribution network brings many challenges. Water leakage is one of them and is associated with tremendous costs, not only for utilities in every activity from planning to operations but also society as a whole. Leakages and the costs associated with them are prone to increase over time as networks expand while renewal rates for the water network is far below than what is needed to maintain the current standard.
- Additional emergency repairs
- More time spent dedicated to searching for leaks
- Unnecessary production, distribution and diversion of water (which include using more chemicals)
- Unnecessary production, distribution and diversion of water (which include using more chemicals)
- Sub-optimal planning of pipe renewal
- Additional deterioration of water resources
- Delivery interruptions
- Traffic disruptions
A modern measurement strategy for a water distribution network requires you to collect real-time data from all parts of the network, not only where you already have access to electricity and fiber optics. With the Fenix Hub this is no longer a problem, you can simply pick the most strategic locations to measure at and add a measurement node as the Fenix Hub powers all the locally connected sensors. This allows you to acquire a higher sensor density, to a much lower investment cost compared to using grid connection for power.
Multiple Fenix Hub versions are applicable in this application, 150, 200 and 250. Combine the Fenix Hub 200 with the D100 energy harvesting device and you get a flexible wireless system which doesn’t require electricity or fiber cables.
The system utilize the future-proof communication technologies Narrow-Band IoT, LTE-M and LoRa-WAN which enables wireless communication from the inside of manholes, without any adaptation to the manhole cover.