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Kerlink Gateways and LoRaWAN Network Delivering Water-Monitoring Systems at UN Refugee Camps

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Context The United Nations High Commissioner for Refugees (UNHCR) is charged with providing water to millions of people worldwide. In addition to the daunting logistics of delivering fresh water to refugees, the agency is charged with monitoring water supplies and paying the entities that deliver the water to refugee sites in many countries. Water trucking can be a fast method of providing a refugee population with access to life-saving quantities of safe drinking water. However, water trucking operations can be inefficient, expensive, time-consuming to administer and hard to monitor. Challenge In its ongoing search for reliable water monitoring and delivery programs, UNHCR was determined to find a ground-level solution that provides accurate and efficient data about quality and quantity of the water Kerlink Wirnet TM Station Kerlink Gateways and LoRaWAN ® Network Delivering Water-Monitoring Systems at UN Refugee Camps "The LoRaWAN ® IoT technology is mature, extremely cost effective and scalable. The static reservoir-monitoring technology works extremely well." Ryan Schweitzer, United Nations HCR Water, Sanitation and Hygiene (WASH) Officer Company name: GreenCityZen Headquarters: Marseille, FRANCE Year founded: 2015 Industry use Case: Smart Metering Organisation name: UNHCR Headquarters: Geneva, SWITZERLAND Year founded: 1950 Role : High Commissioner for Refugees 1 J u n e , 2 0 2 0 | V e r s i o n 1 . 0

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