Water utilities

Of course, the required changes aren’t simple. Long lived asset investments and reliance on purpose-built networks to operate these both curb innovation and make it harder to adapt to new technologies and business needs.

Transforming to an open, standards-based IIoT operations architecture is the answer: agile, scalable, affordable and able to interwork with your current assets.

Putting in place the right network is one critical key to success. New open, standards-based Low Power Wide Area (LPWA) communications and flexible open digital platforms are enabling low-cost ubiquitous access to low power IIoT sensors and data.

Cellular network narrowband (NB) IoT has started to mature and is now delivering new cost efficiencies and enhanced battery life as a communication service provider or private LTE/4G network service.

The NB-IoT 3GPP open standard improves coverage, scalability and power draw, enabling economies of scale that make deploying IIoT capabilities realistic in many more meters and sensors.

It offers low interference and improved QoS and security in solutions based on licensed spectrum, while providing standards-based field network connectivity, creating more flexible, economic and sustainable operations.

Another critical element of any new digital strategy is enabling open, vendor agnostic lifecycle device management for IIoT and existing devices.

Your utility can freely use any IIoT device, all seamlessly integrated into a common data management and analytic system for unified operations and optimal efficiency.

Choosing LTE/4G NB-IoT communications and an IMPACT open device management platform will rapidly transform your operations. Support mission critical communications between operations centers, major locations and assets along with backhaul for private LTE network NB-IoT services with an optical, packet microwave radio and IP/MPLS network.