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LoRaWAN® is Transforming Water Network Operations To Become More Sustainable

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TABLE OF CONTENTS FOREWORD .............................................................................................................................................................. 3 THE AUSTRALIAN CONTEXT ...................................................................................................................................4 The World's Driest Continent ....................................................................................................................................4 Policy and Social Settings ........................................................................................................................................4 Industry Challenges ..................................................................................................................................................5 Digital Transformation of Water Management Sector in Australia ............................................................................5 LORAWAN ® : THE BACKBONE OF NEXT-GENERATION WATER INFRASTRUCTURE ........................................6 Low-Power, Wide-Area Network Technology ..............................................................................................................6 LoRaWAN ® Use Cases................................................................................................................................................8 Water Metering ...........................................................................................................................................................8 Water Supply Network Monitoring ...............................................................................................................................8 Sewage Systems ........................................................................................................................................................9 Ensuring Water Quality ...............................................................................................................................................9 Energy Usage and Net Zero Emissions .....................................................................................................................9 EIGHT REASONS WHY LORAWAN ® IS THE BEST CHOICE FOR WATER UTILITIES ........................................10 1. More Cost-Effective Coverage ...........................................................................................................................10 2. Better Ground Penetration, including for Underground, Hard-to-Reach, or Deep Indoor Locations ..................10 3. Much Longer Battery Life of Up To 10 Years ...................................................................................................... 11 4. Two-Way Communication .................................................................................................................................. 11 5. In-Built End-to-End Security .............................................................................................................................. 11 6. Lower Total Cost of Ownership with Battery Consumption up to 5 Times Less than NB-IoT ............................. 11 7. Complementary to SCADA Systems by Adding Additional Data Points With LoRaWAN At A Lower Cost ......... 11 8. Multi-Service Platform for Smart City Use Cases .............................................................................................. 11 CONCLUSION .........................................................................................................................................................12 Case Studies Case Study 1: Using LoRaWAN ® and Tanks to Solve Water Scarcity on Remote Islands - New Zealand ............7 Case study 2: City of Gold Coast Tracks Down Non-Revenue Water with Smart Meters - Australia .....................8 Case study 3: Western Municipal Water District Taps LoRaWAN® for Advanced Metering Infrastructure-as-a-Service - USA.............................................................................................................................9 Case study 4: Goanna Ag Enables Smarter Cotton Production, Australia ............................................................10 Case study 5: Real-Time Water Network Monitoring in France's Second Largest City ........................................12 Photo credit: IStock www.lora-alliance.org p.2

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