ST Engineering launches data-driven smart water solution

“By digitalising conventional water meters infrastructure at scale, BrightCity provides real-time insights, empowering utility providers and end users to manage water consumption effectively and enhance sustainability.”

Key components of the BrightCity suite include:

Meter Interface Unit (MIU): the MIU is designed in a compact form factor and can be easily attached to existing meters to provide wireless communications connectivity for digitalised data collection and transmission to a centralised meter data management system. The meteragnostic MIUs are compatible with most water meter brands, eliminating the need for costly equipment replacement, and are suitable for brownfield and greenfield implementations. They can also be paired with other monitoring devices to provide a full water utility solution. 

Meter Data Management System (MDMS): the BrightCity MDMS integrates and centralises real-time data from meters to enable automated, end-to-end monitoring and control of cities’ metering infrastructures over large areas. Its encrypted data management system enables secured data collection, trend analysis and provides real-time alerts. The insights derived can be extrapolated for predictive water leakage detection, enabling enhanced water management. 

Open wireless communications network: BrightCity is designed to work on open communications networks such as NBIoT/CatM and LoRa. This eliminates communications network and equipment lock-in to enable greater flexibility over multiple deployments. 

Customer portal: the customer portal and mobile application provides end users with real-time water consumption readings and comparison benchmarks to help them better manage water usage and detect unusual consumption patterns.