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Q&A: Gearing up for smart meter mass rollout

Envirotec Magazine

Smart meters are prominent in water companies’ 2025-2030 business plans, in line with regulatory expectations for large-scale rollouts. What are the key benefits of smart meters for utilities and their customers? What are the key benefits of smart meters for utilities and their customers?

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Comment: Massive IoT enables massive opportunities for utilities

Envirotec Magazine

Massive IoT , alias massive Machine-Type Communications (mMTC), is already impacting multiple industries. From fleet management to environmental monitoring and smart grid management, to consumer applications including smart watches, smart buildings and, ultimately, entire smart cities.

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Monitoring for flood management

Envirotec Magazine

Launching a consultation on the agency’s flood strategy, she said: “We can’t win a war against water by building away climate change with infinitely high flood defences.” Flood risk management therefore focused on measures to protect communities and industry in affected areas. Monitoring NFM.

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Post pandemic environmental monitoring

Envirotec Magazine

The Environment Agency’s Environmental Sensor Network (ESNET) comprises modular water quality monitoring systems that can be quickly and easily deployed at remote sites. By Matt Dibbs, Managing Director of Meteor Communications, a firm that designs, builds and installs remote environmental monitoring systems.

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Plugging into electricity’s energy challenge

Envirotec Magazine

How is technology helping to address the challenges faced by power grids? According to the International Energy Agency, global electricity demand rose by more than 6% in 2021, the largest increase since the recovery from the financial crisis in 2010. The energy distribution model is becoming decentralised.

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Kwasi Kwarteng says biomass wood imports are “not sustainable”

Envirotec Magazine

Business Secretary Kwasi Kwarteng told a private meeting of MPs this week that Drax’s imports of US-made wood pellets to be burnt for energy are “not sustainable” He added that it “doesn’t make sense” and told MPs the government had not fully investigated the sustainability of burning wood pellets, a type of biomass.

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The rise of smart water

Envirotec Magazine

It’s a multi-billion-dollar (per annum) market, explains Dr Mikael Khan, business development manager with consultancy firm Aqua Enviro. With a burgeoning human population, the lightning pace of industrialization, and now climate change, the stress on freshwater water availability has never been so great. Smart water metering.