Smart Water Network with Aqua Analytics
Smart water networks are the next generation of water infrastructure. These systems use advanced technology to ensure the safety, quality and operational efficiency of your water supply network. Aqua Analytics is proud to be at the forefront of this exciting new field. We help water utilities around Australia upgrade their systems and deliver better customer outcomes.
Our skilled team takes a personalised approach to helping you extract the most value from your IoT devices. From device installation and data management to data integration and smart water platform implementation, we support you at every stage and ensure the data from smart devices is contributing to addressing your water network challenges.
Why Choose Aqua Analytics for Smart Water Networks
Some of the reasons Aqua Analytics is the trusted smart water network provider include:
120+ Years of Industry Experience
With over 120 years of combined industry experience, Aqua Analytics has a profound understanding of water management and the challenges faced by utilities and businesses.
Highly Engaged and Skilled Technical Team
Our team of highly engaged and skilled technicians is dedicated to delivering top-notch service. Their expertise in smart water networks ensures that your water distribution system is monitored and managed effectively, providing you with accurate and timely insights that contribute to improved operational efficiency.
Trusted Reliability and Transparency
Aqua Analytics is committed to providing reliable and transparent services. Our smart water network systems are designed to ensure accuracy, efficiency, and trust in our solutions.
Advanced Technologies and Techniques
We utilise advanced technologies and techniques to deliver comprehensive smart water network solutions.
Customised Solutions
We understand that each water distribution network is unique, and we offer customisable smart water network solutions to meet your specific needs. Whether you require specialised leak detection, flow monitoring, or pressure monitoring, our solutions can be customised to provide the precise capabilities you need.
What is a Smart Water Network?
A smart water network is an integrated system that uses connected devices, sensors, and management software to monitor, control, and optimise water distribution in real time. This advanced network promotes proactive management and maintenance, ensuring that water systems operate at peak efficiency and reliability. There are two components of a smart water network:
Connected Devices and Sensors
These include a variety of IoT-enabled sensors and devices that gather data on water flow, pressure, quality, and consumption. These devices are strategically placed throughout the water distribution network to provide comprehensive coverage and detailed insights.
Management Software
This software platform collects and analyses data from connected devices and sensors, offering real-time insights and enabling automated control. The software helps detect anomalies, predict maintenance needs, and optimise system performance.
By integrating these components, a smart water network provides a holistic view of the water distribution system, allowing for more informed decision-making, improved resource management, and enhanced system reliability.
The Benefits of Smart Water Networks
At Aqua Analytics, we leverage advanced technology like AquaNRW to unlock the full potential of smart water networks. By combining AI-powered analytics with seamless data integration, utilities can achieve transformative outcomes across their water systems.
Improved Data Collection & Analysis
Smart water networks enable utilities to collect and analyse data across potable and wastewater systems with unprecedented accuracy. By integrating data from SCADA, IoT sensors, metering, and maintenance systems, AquaNRW creates a unified data platform. This ensures every decision is based on comprehensive, real-time insights.
Access to Data-Driven Technologies
AquaNRW uses AI-powered algorithms to optimise every stage of the water cycle, from source to consumer endpoints. Utilities gain actionable insights into flow, pressure, consumption, and maintenance, empowering them to reduce water loss and improve overall efficiency.
In-Depth Knowledge & Increased Control
With AquaNRW, utilities gain deeper visibility into their network’s assets, including stress hotspots, aging infrastructure, and consumption patterns. This enables precise control over operations, ensuring assets are maintained effectively and water distribution is optimised.
Real-Time Problem Detection & Prevention
AquaNRW detects and localises leaks, bursts, and abnormal flow behaviour in real-time using AI-powered sensor analytics. Utilities can respond to issues immediately, preventing disruptions, water loss, or potential health hazards.
Efficient Operation of Infrastructure
By analysing historical data and operational stresses, AquaNRW helps utilities optimise the performance of pipes, pumps, reservoirs, and valves. Proactive condition monitoring ensures infrastructure operates at peak efficiency, reducing wear and extending asset lifespan.
Prevention of Sewer Overflows
During severe weather events, AquaNRW provides predictive insights and real-time alerts, enabling utilities to manage sewer systems proactively. This minimises the risk of overflows, safeguarding public health and the environment.
Enhanced Decision-Making & Customer Service
AquaNRW integrates data from siloed sources like GIS, CRM, and billing systems, providing utilities with a complete operational picture. This enables better asset management, smarter resource allocation, and more responsive customer service, ensuring communities receive reliable, equitable water supply.
Check Out Our Smart Water Networks In Action
Our smart water network solutions have transformed water utilities across diverse regions, addressing challenges like non-revenue water, asset management, and leak detection. Below are real-world examples showcasing how our advanced technology has improved water system performance and operational efficiency for our clients.
Case Study 1: Localising Water Loss to Optimise Field Investigations
Goal: Pre-localise water losses to guide field teams in pinpointing leaks and checking meters efficiently.
Location: Multiple cities
DMA Size: Up to 20km
Approach:
With the help of AquaNRW, we integrated geo-referenced network maps, customer locations, DMA flow and pressure data, and meter readings to create an auto-calibrated digital twin of the network. This model prioritised high-loss areas, enabling targeted field investigations.
Results:
- Achieved up to 70% accuracy in detecting leaks and unmetered connections.
- Reduced Non-Revenue Water (NRW) by 8% per DMA within six months.
Case Study 2: Revenue Loss Prediction and Customer Trend Tracking
Objective: Predict revenue loss from meter under-registration and premise leaks in a large metropolitan city.
Data Used:
- 7 years of bi-monthly meter readings
- Move-in/move-out and master/sub-customer data
- Over 1 million meters
Approach:
AquaNRW applied advanced data analysis, modelling, and dashboard visualisation to identify key issues and track trends.
Results:
- Flagged master meters with potential revenue loss, prioritised by loss amount.
- Identified submeters with potential premise leaks.
- Developed dashboards to monitor revenue and customer trends.
- Achieved 77% accuracy during bench testing on sample data.
Case Study 3: Dynamically Predicting Water Main Breaks and Leaks
Objective: Predict the likelihood and consequence of pipe leaks and failures across an 1800km water network.
Data Used:
- Network attributes
- Environmental stresses
- 3-year maintenance history
- Operational stresses
Approach:
A classifier model was developed to assign pipe scores for likelihood of leakage, failure, and associated consequences.
Results:
- Achieved 72% accuracy in predicting poor-condition pipes.
- Predicted that 35% of future leaks would occur within the top 10% of the network by length.
How Can Aqua Analytics Help with Smart Water Technology Projects?
At Aqua Analytics, we provide independent, smart water consulting advice to help water utilities navigate the water technology space. We have an intimate knowledge of which solutions will work to achieve your organisational objectives and solve your most significant water and wastewater network challenges. This includes avoiding main water bursts, reducing wastewater pipe blockages and reducing levels of non-revenue water.
We are always guided by how implementing smart technologies will improve your business’s operational performance. As we develop an intelligent water strategy, we keep the customer’s goals front and centre.
Does Aqua Analytics help technology providers and vendors with project implementation?
Absolutely! Our professional teams work regularly with global technology vendors to help them deploy and maintain technologies in pilots and projects across the region.
We hold accreditation and inductions with most of Australia and New Zealand’s major water asset owners, allowing our teams to be strong local delivery partners in smart water projects.
Contact our team today if you would like to discuss your water loss management, pipeline assessment or smart network management project.
How Much Do Aqua Analytics Services Cost?
There is no one-size-fits-all fee for a smart water technology project. As every job we work on is unique, we quote on a project-by-project basis. Whether you are looking for long-term engagement or short-term assistance, we provide clear and transparent pricing structures that best accommodate your budget without compromising on the quality of our solutions.
Contact our team today if you would like to discuss your water loss management, pipeline assessment or smart network management project.
How Can Technology-Driven Water Networks Improve Water System Efficiency?
Smart water networks are layered (as any data ecosystem is), starting with field sensors to collect real-time data, remote control and enterprise data sources, through communication protocols, data management and display and up-to-date data fusion and advanced analytics. The latter covers many categories, including decision support, remote automation and predictive analytics solutions that can rapidly advance the repair and maintenance of water utilities.
What Are the Benefits of a Smart Water Network?
Perhaps you’re looking to make your labour force more efficient or want to provide a superior customer experience for end water users. Maybe you are looking to reduce leakage in your network, identify hydrogen sulphide build-up in your wastewater system or understand what critical trunk mains are placed under regular stress from pressure transients.
Aqua Analytics takes these objectives and develops tailored solutions for each project, ensuring a strategy and tactics are designed to achieve each goal. A key element of each project is providing a trusted interface between your digital and physical assets, ensuring project ownership from start to finish.
This includes:
- Identification of customer-side leaks causing high water bills
- Real-time customer notifications of burst water mains (along with regular SMS & social media updates on the repair status)
- Behavioural insights into water usage
- Fixing a damaged asset before the customer tells you
- Real-time acoustic leak detection from loggers
- Water quality information dashboards
- Identifying & mitigating sources of pressure transients (water hammer) on critical trunk water mains
What Role Does Aqua Analytics Play in Smart Water Network Projects?
Aqua Analytics fosters strong relationships with smart water technology providers, enabling us to seamlessly implement intelligent water projects for utility customers.
Aqua Analytics can partner with you to manage any aspect of a smart water network project. This includes program development, customisation, smart water equipment procurement, data management, installation and ongoing IoT device maintenance and management, or establishing a more comprehensive smart water portal to consolidate disparate datasets (SCADA, GIS, CMMS, etc. AMI/AMR). We can also provide smart data-driven water networks as a service, whereby smaller and medium-sized utilities do not need to outlay capital to deploy smart devices into their network.
Aqua Analytics can manage all aspects of smart water and wastewater networks in Australia, New Zealand and Asia. Contact us today to discuss your requirements confidentially.
How Can Smart Technology Help Water Networks?
Smart water networks improve the operational efficiency, longevity and reliability of the physical water network. For example, better measurement, collection and analysis of data allow for more rapid action across a range of network events leading to lower costs and improved levels of customer service. Similarly, real-time network monitoring can provide enhanced situational awareness on leakage, leading to more targeted leakage reduction efforts using fewer resources or understanding high-risk assets due to pressure transients in sewer rising mains.
What Areas Do Aqua Analytics Service?
With offices across Australia and New Zealand, we are well-placed to provide services for your water network management needs. If you are unsure whether we can reach you, contact our friendly team, and we’ll let you know whether we can help.
What Is the Aqua Analytics Stance on Safety?
HSQE stands for workplace health, safety, quality and environment and is integral to everything we do at Aqua Analytics. We take our commitment to HSQE standards seriously and hold certifications for the following standards:
- ISO 14001:2015
- ISO 9001:2015
- ISO 45001:2018
The health and safety of all our staff are paramount and we make continuous efforts to improve safety performance every year. We do this by:
- Defining clear roles & responsibilities for HSQE across the whole company
- Establishing objectives & targets with the intent of reducing & eliminating work-related injuries & incidents
- Assessing HSQE risks & taking appropriate measures to reduce potential risks
Complying with statutory HSQE requirements, codes, standards & guidelines
Some of our HSQE strategies include:
- Ensuring HSE management principles are included in all organisational planning activities
- Consulting with employees & other parties to improve decision-making on HSQE matters
- Providing enough resources to ensure occupational health, safety, quality & environment is central to the organisation
- Providing ongoing education & training to our employees, ensuring that all employees can carry out their duties in a safe manner
- Distributing HSQE information, including this policy, to all employees & interested parties
- Performing routine HSQE audits to assess compliance with HSQE laws & company policies.
