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Building the business case for satellite IoT

Envirotec Magazine

Eric Ménard writes The Operational IoT market continues to expand as organisations across the world imagine an extraordinary range of opportunities to leverage sensor technology. The shipping industry is improving cargo traceability to mitigate on-going disruption.

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Smart water meter based on Sigfox Technology

Smart Energy International

Sigfox, as one of the Low-Power Wide-Area (LPWA) wireless communication technologies, is designed to connect sensors and devices securely at low cost in the most energy-efficient way to enable Massive IoT. In June 2024, Sigfox SA was selected as the network to support South Africa’s transition to smart water meters.

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Why water companies choose LAISON for smart prepaid water meters

Smart Energy International

Recently, some water companies in the Middle East have started to tender for the STS prepaid water meter, arousing new discussion on smart water metering, as a solution for improving billing efficiency, in African countries and beyond. Prepaid water meters are not a new thing, even in Africa, but most projects failed before 2010.

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Placing consumers at the heart of smart metering

Smart Energy International

Edwin Sibiya, chairperson of the South African Metering Industry Association, stated during Enlit Africa 2022 that consumers should become more of a priority when utilities develop and install smart metering systems as part of efforts to future-proof the grid in Africa. Edwin Sibiya.

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How do smart water meters help drive revenue?

Smart Energy International

Nowadays, there is a growing discussion in the newspapers and media about smart water meters. But each person has a different understanding of the smart water meter and how it helps to improve the operational performance of water companies. Smart water meters: challenges in Africa. Smart water meter technology.

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Funding for Internet of Trees

Envirotec Magazine

Seed funding of 1.8million has been secured for a large-scale IoT network to detect wildfires. Solar-powered sensors and wireless gateways attached to trees are the basis of the system developed by environmental IoT startup Dryad Networks , in addition to a patent-pending distributed mesh architecture.

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DEWA nanosatellite improves management of power and water networks

Smart Energy International

Dubai Electricity and Water Authority (DEWA) plans to offer satellite-as-a-service to the utility industry globally. This will improve the efficiency of DEWA’s operations and support the digitalisation of energy and water transmission and distribution networks. It will also integrate IoT data using DEWA’s cloud services.”.