NZ IoT Alliance’s Post

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So a real world example, a customer of the councils in Queensland was signed up to the visualization tool through Green Bay and in February had a usage of 25 litres per 30 minutes. This was identified as a potential leak and the customer got a plumber to site. The plumber wasn't able to find a leak on the property but the customer over time was continuing to get persistent leak notifications and by April that was up to 40 litres per 30 minute. At that point, the customer engaged with the council and with Iota and Greenbee and actually got a specialist leak detection service on site. The leak was identified in their property, but under a concrete slab. So there's no way that that leak would ever have come to sight, but because of the digital metering data through the Lentic platform and then into the visualization tool through Greenbee, the customer was certain that there was something wrong, that there was a leak on their property and they were able to investigate and get that fixed. That's one individual customer at Southeast Water. We're seeing that at scale where with 94,000 digital meters deployed in October, we had saved customers 1.4 giga litres of water and that equates to about. 6.2 million Australian dollars. That's customers who. Previously wouldn't know they had a leak or a potential leak on their property and that's about 19% of that 94,000 All of that is possible because of Lentic, the enterprise IT platform, which brings together the digital meter data, other enterprise systems like the CRM, like the billing system and enables us to automate the process of leak notifications to customers. Without the Lentic enterprise IoT platform in the middle of that process there would. Be too much data to manage the volume of data would mean that a utility or a council wouldn't have the capability or the capacity to act on all of those notifications or to use all of that data effectively. Lentic really supports utilities and councils to understand which data to look at, which data to focus on and what can be automated in the background. Iota's role is to bring a proven at scale solution to solve the problems of the utilities and the councils. To de risk the investment that a utility or council is needing to make. And to share not only the technology but also the learnings from a utility who is deployed 94,000 digital metres and has approval now to scale up to over 1,000,000 metres over the next few years.