Aquiba's parent company, Sentec, wins Queen's Award for the second year running. The award recognises the innovation and commercialisation of the technology at the heart of Aquiba's A200 smart water meter.
Cambridge, UK, 21st April, 2011
Sentec, the smart grid and metering specialist and parent company of Aquiba, has been recognised with the Queen’s Award for Enterprise for Innovation. This is the second year in a row that the company has been honoured with a Queen’s Award.
The Queen’s Award for Innovation, which recognises continual innovation and commercialisation, was awarded to Sentec for its Sterling technology. The Sterling technology is at the heart of the Aquiba A200 smart water meter developed for the Australian market, featuring no moving parts, high accuracy even at low flow rates and long lifetimes. Aquiba aims to be the first choice provider of platform technologies for companies specifying intelligent, future-proof water networks.
Smart water meters are the next generation of utility meters. Offering superior metrology data, smart meters provide more accurate and detailed information on usage of water. This allows water companies to improve their network efficiency by detecting network losses and by planning infrastructure investments more accurately. It also allows consumers to be provided with high quality information and alerts to help them reduce wastage and manage their bills.
Last year Sentec received the Queen’s Award for Enterprise in the International Trade category in recognition of Sentec’s exceptional growth over the last three years, during which period the company more than trebled its overseas earnings to £4.3m. Earlier this year Sentec also won the Entrepreneur Country Green Award, recognising its contributions to the clean energy sector and its technology partner, OnStream, recently received the Metering Manufacturer & Technology of the Year Award, and the Innovation of the Year Award, at the European Smart Metering Awards.
Mark England, Sentec CEO, commented “We’re proud to be recognised with the Queen’s Award for Enterprise for Innovation. It’s a well deserved reward for the team, and we’re delighted that this is the second year in a row we’ve been honoured with a Queens Award. The team has worked very hard to produce an innovative design that appeals to global markets.”
The Queen’s Awards for Enterprise are divided into International Trade, Innovation and Sustainable Development. The Award Scheme, originally known as The Queen’s Award to Industry, was instituted by Royal Warrant in 1966 following the recommendations of a Committee chaired by HRH The Duke of Edinburgh.
About Sentec
Sentec is the world leading supplier of smart grid and metering technology and helps its partners achieve innovation led growth in energy and water markets.
Sentec’s partners have sold over 8 million meters in markets across the world and have logged over 45 billion service hours. Sentec has been involved in smart meter design for gas, water and electricity for over a decade, working with most of the largest names in the industry.
About Aquiba
Aquiba addresses the need for smart metering in the water supply chain, in particular for areas where water conservation is essential.
Aquiba is a joint venture of Sentec, UK, the smart meter and grid specialists and Takahata Precision, Japan, the high quality water meter manufacturer and engineering company.
This story was published on Thursday 21st April 2011
