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Yorkshire Water is partnering with IoT specialist Netmore Group and UK environmental company Detectronic on a multi-year smart wastewater management deployment.
The initiative, which comes alongside Yorkshire Water’s 1.3 million smart water meter exchange, involves the rollout by Detectronic of more than 90,000 sewer monitors across the company’s wastewater network as part of a major sewer network telemetry programme.
Over the next five years, 65,000 PAL pressure alarm sensors and 27,000 LIDoTT alarms are due to be installed – believed to become one of the most comprehensive monitoring networks of its kind in the world.
These PAL sensors, designed as a domestic sewer alarm with smart connectivity for residential gullies and shallow chambers, will then connect to the LoRaWAN network deployed and managed by Netmore to support Yorkshire Water’s smart water meter programme currently under way.
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“We are excited to partner with Detectronic to help ensure reliable wastewater monitoring that aligns with Yorkshire Water’s commitment to environmental stewardship,” said Vadim Lyu, UK Managing Director at Netmore.
“This partnership underscores our dedication to innovation and sustainability in the water industry and provides a powerful example of how a network deployed for an anchor use case like smart metering can be used to support numerous water management applications to meet the evolving needs of utilities and communities.”
Possibly a first, the opportunity to leverage a smart meter network in this way marks an important use case, with smart wastewater and sewer management with concerns about pollution due to overflows and flooding becoming increasingly important.
The PAL sensor is Detectronic’s first LoRaWAN enabled product.
“[It] marks the beginning of our roadmap to develop more LoRaWAN-compatible devices that enable long-range communication for battery-operated monitoring solutions,” said Gavin Wagstaff, product & data director at Detectronic, in a release.
Detectronic also is responsible for the planned maintenance of all sensors throughout the five-year framework and reports establishing a new base in Yorkshire to support it.
