Keynote presented at LPWA IoT Event 2016 in Amsterdam. I share experience about Application Case for which LPWA improves Smart Water Networks management

1. June 7th, 2016Bruno Hamamlian

2. 1. Drinkable Water supply :
today’s challenges
2. Smart Water Networks :
LPWAN has a foundation of
Digital Utility
3. The LPWAN/IoT jungle
4. Uses cases & REX
5. Corporate Snapshot
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3. 1. Drinkable Water supply :
today’s challenges
2. Smart Water Networks : LPWAN
has a foundation of Digital Utility
3. The LPWAN/IoT jungle
4. Uses cases & REX
5. Corporate Snapshot
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4. Global world water capacity: 1,424,192,640 km3 of water
97,5% sea water : 2,5% natural water
Less than 0.7% of total natural water is available for human use
Worldwide population increases and concentrate in Urban area
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Source: Iowa State University
7
billion
inhabitants
(50% urban)
9
billion
inhabitants
(70% urban)

5. In 2015, Water Crises becomes #1 Global risk, followed by infectious
diseases and weapons of mass destruction.
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1. Drinkable Water supply :
today’s challenges
2. Smart Water Networks : LPWAN
has a foundation of Digital Utility
3. The LPWAN/IoT jungle
4. Uses cases & REX
5. Corporate Snapshot

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Global IoT Network
Daily Indicators
District Metered Area
Focus on weakness
points (NRW)
Fast reaction
Reliability and
accuracy of indicators
Wide source of data Interoperability

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Supervision & monitoring Data transmission & collection Sensors Geopositioning and
info visualization

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IoT adoption for smart water is still emerging with conservative barriers to
come across
7% out of the 966 million of water meters are « automated/smart »
Source: IHS Research, World Market Meter reports, 2013 Editions
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Low Cost Radio Modem
Low Energy Consumption
Long Range
Connectivity with High SLA & QoS
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15. 1. Drinkable Water supply :
today’s challenges
2. Smart Water Networks :
LPWAN has a foundation of
Digital Utility
3. The LPWAN/IoT jungle
4. Uses cases & REX
5. Corporate Snapshot
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LTE-M NB-IoT NB-LTEEC-GSM
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Standardize an open LPWAN protocol shared
Lora Alliance members ecosystem (MNO,
Industrials,…)
Revenues based on HW (modules and
Network) and Royalties sales.
Become The Global IoT Operator
Selling Connectivity (subscription, …)
Evolve existing cellular infrastructure to make it
LPWAN
Network infrastructure (HW& SW) sales to MNO
Device management platforms sales.
SEMTECH Proprietary
Provided by other manufacturers (ST
Microelectronics, Microchip …)
SIGFOX Proprietary
Provided by other manufacturers (Texas
Instruments,..)
Standardization study ongoing inside 3GPP
Supported by Huawei, Deutsche Telecom,
Qualcomm,…
• IoT techs must evolve towards standardized Low Power and Long Range
network to ensure success for Industrial Applications

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The 3 selected LPWANs have equivalent network coverage performances
considering the Power Consumption/Link Budget ratio
Sigfox
protocol unflexible (how to adapt to limited dwell time for non European regulations)
address small segments of use cases + full dependency on SIGFOX as unique operator
claims 14 countries coverage (mainly in Europe) but is still waiting for devices to connect.
NB-IoT
Using standard batteries, NB-IoT’s energy budgetcan not reach 10 years lifetime
NB-IoT is well positioned to become a 3GPP standard but its use in LP application will
remain limited unless chipsets and protocol are optimized in terms of energy budget.
LoRa Alliance
Most suitable LPWAN for Water IoT
and Environmental Services
• Costs
• standard Protocol
• Business model
• Scalability
• Decentralised/Roaming
• Risk sharing
Turn the world

19. 1. Drinkable Water supply :
today’s challenges
2. Smart Water Networks : LPWAN
has a foundation of Digital Utility
3. The LPWAN/IoT jungle
4. Uses cases & REX
5. Corporate Snapshot
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20. Multi-LP-RF protocols (HR, HR-LoRa, upcoming in EN 13757-4, LoRaWAN, Sigfox)
Support all AMR/AMI (single or multi-modes)
Rich dataset for advanced service delivery (Water)
Safe & Secure (AES 128k encryption)
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The very first wireless device able to adapt seamlessly
to any kind of architecture and environment

21. Marseille Metropolis
18 municipalities for 1,045,823 inhabitants, over 600 km2
186,000 Smart Water Meters fully installed inn 1.5 year
Star Apps: Billing on real consumptions / individual water footprints / Water Hydrants
Project Outlook:
Roll-out planned from Jul-2014 to Jun-2017
186,000 Smart Water Meters operated in LoRa
105 LPWAN concentrators and 13ku Repeaters
to compare LoRa Performances vs legacy protocol
D&B&C by Endetec Homerider
Monthly average SLA/QoS:
• 99,3% data/meter/day
• 96,4% LoRa network availability
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CR+1000 coverage in HR-NET protocol
(2400 SWM connected)
CR+1000 coverage in HR-LoRa protocol
(12,600 SWM connected)X 5
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23. Grand Lyon : Water syndicate
56 municipalities
400 000 Smart Water meters installed until 2018
Star project: Online Water leak detection and repair
6 000 Acoustic Correlators from Gutermann
Top 3 Smart Water Networks in EU
Roll-out planned from Feb-2015 to Dec-2019
O&M over 10 years duration
Reference Project in terms of
KPI and SLA for Water Conservation
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24. Seek for The « Bridge » !
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25. 1. Drinkable Water supply :
today’s challenges
2. Smart Water Networks :
LPWAN has a foundation of
Digital Utility
3. The LPWAN/IoT jungle
4. Uses cases & REX
5. Corporate Snapshot
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€ 23.9 billion revenue
187,000 employees in 77 countries
The global benchmark
for water services The global benchmark
for energy optimization
The global benchmark
for waste management
and resource recovery
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16 years of experience in Environmental IoT
5,000,000 connected objects operated
200 billion object data managed per year
• Founded in June 2000
• acquires Homerider Systems in 2009
• 2014 & 2015 Award : Smart Water Metering innovation
• 2015 : Founding Sponsor of
promoting Wide Area Network for IoT
• for Paris (2001) – starter for smart water
• for asset management optimization in gas
station (10 000 gas stations daily monitored)
Key dates
Innovation
Historical customers
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28. Discover more on
Bruno HAMAMLIAN
CSMO
bruno.hamamlian@homeridersystems.com

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30. Smart Metering /
Customer services
Water Network
Optimization
Water
Leakage
Management
Water Quality
Monitoring
41,3%36,5%
2,1%20,1%
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*Source: GWI Survey – Smart Water Networks 2013

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32. Public water municipality with:
3,000,000 consumers
2,200,000 inhabitants
90,000 customers
Smart metering Focus
Installation completed in 2009
Cellular Concentrators : 100 units
Repeaters: 29,000 units
Smart Water meters: 64,000 units
Customer services
Monthly Billing based on real consumption
Leak notification on webportal
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33. Water conservation issue
8 hydraulics sectors (14 district meters)
Initial network efficiency 67 %
Main concern: Leak Management
First Smart Water Networks
6 200 Smart meters
14 Pulse track modules for District Meters monitoring
80 acoustic loggers
DMA service : network efficiency control, leak detection
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o Results:
Network efficiency increased by 10 points (to
reach 77%)
300,000 m3 saved (13%)
250,000 kWh energy saved (pumping stations)

34. Facts:
1st Private Business Park in Europe
500 companies
Main concern: customer’s satisfaction
Level-up C&I value proposal
290 Smart meters monitoring (Large DN meters)
SCADA Interconnexion for District Meters monitoring
DMA service : network efficiency control
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o Results:
Detailed Consumption control for customer’s
Network efficiency control by the Business
Park Management