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1. Leaking pipeline GOALS ACTIONS BENEFITS 2. Water infrastructure 3. Household 4. Whole city Identify leaks for high water users (such as buildings, swimming pools, agricultural sites and hospitals) including concealed leaks • Deploy DMA-connected water meters at strategic end points • Deploy consump- tion-monitoring capability for high-usage customers, known through historical billing data • Plug leaks for high-usage customers and provide an opportunity to drive behavioural changes • Improve billing efficiency • Increase visibility • Reduce environmental and social impacts • Reduce financial burden Reduce energy costs through remote monitoring and better control of power usage at water assets (including pumps, reservoirs, storage, water and wastewater treatment plants) Use LoRaWAN IoT technology to complement SCADA systems by connecting LoRaWAN- enabled sensors (including pressure reduction valves, smart valve controls, water quality probes, flow monitoring systems and water level sensors) • Manage water use more efficiently • Reduce energy and carbon footprints • Better balance supply and demand • Create digital twins of water infrastructure Empower households to better manage their water consumption and detect network leaks and water leaks Roll out automated meter reading (residential water metering) • Support water savings via water protection programmes • Improve customer experiences • Support water strategy programmes • Reach sustainable development goals Leverage the IoT LoRaWAN network to deploy third-party use cases and scale up • Use LoRaWAN network roaming capabilities to support new use cases (such as city networks and planning, other utilities and agricultural irrigation) • Enable versatile smart city connectivity for parking, smart street lighting, people counting, smart waste management, asset monitoring and other use cases • Amortise the cost of the LoRaWAN network by reaching out to new users • Create more collaboration between city agencies • Enable smart city collaborations with local governments and/or with utilities that share smart city infrastructure • Leverage LoRaWAN's versatile connectivity and device offerings to enable collaboration, resulting in a lower total cost of ownership 1. 2. 3. 4. LoRaWAN ® : THE BACKBONE OF NEXT - GENERATION WATER INFRASTRUCTURE LOW - POWER, WIDE - AREA NETWORK TECHNOLOGY Low-power wide-area network (LPWAN) technology provides wireless communications at low speeds over long distances, with low power requirements. That mean IoT devices can stay connected using battery power for years without replacement, making them ideal for water utility and smart city networks. www.lora-alliance.org p.6

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