Aquiba's A200 meter enables water companies to conserve water and the environment and optimise water network efficiency, while empowering their customers.
- Conserve water and the environment.
- Avoid unnecessary water abstraction – protect waterways and wetlands.
- Reduce overall consumption and the need for carbon intensive desalination and bulk water pumping.
- Influence consumer behaviour to reduce the need to pump water, and so reduce carbon emissions.
- Identify non-compliance with water use restrictions.
- Reduce embodied energy (plastic bodies take approximately 1/7th of the energy used to make metal bodies).
- Send fewer meters to landfill.
- Optimise water network efficiency
- Accurately calculate total network losses No estimation and no extrapolation.
- Separately identify network leaks unmetered usage and household consumption.
- Manage overall demand to reduce investment in alternative water supplies.
- Manage demand to reduce peak flows and associated distribution costs.
- Analyse and understand consumer behaviour patterns to enable better infrastructure planning.
- Reduce field service costs associated with meter reading and testing.
- Reduce call centre costs associated with billing enquiries.
- Reduce write-offs of challenged bills.
- Identify and collect evidence of meter fraud / tampering.
- Replace fewer meters.
- Build future applications.
- Empower consumers
- Identify household leaks and provide alerts to enable prompt rectification.
- Enable households to make informed decisions about how and when they use water.
- Encourage households to buy more efficient appliances.
- By agreement with insurance companies, reduce household insurance premiums.
- Reduce / explain billing surprises.
- Ensure fairer billing.