Central Device Management
Connecting all of your logging devices from anywhere in your network and providing detailed feedback - all from one portal
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Pressure logging or acoustic logging?
Stuart Mawditt asks a great question: what delivers the best benefits acoustic or pressure logging?
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i2O one of the 10 GreenTech companies to watch
i2O has been named one of the Top 10 Sunday Times Tech Track BGF Green Tech to Watch.
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Exciting time for water sensors
Ofwat associate director Alison Fergusson is reported as saying that the cost of monitoring and having real-time data has really come down.
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SMS fallback? Do you have a typewriter in the office?
Using SMS as a fallback is like keeping a typewriter in the office in case the printer breaks. If you’re old enough, you’ll remember when offices only had typewriters. Then electric ones. Then word processors. Then computers. Let’s not mention fax machines.
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Before the clock starts ticking
Last week’s blog focused on managing incidents once you become aware of them, noting how i2O’s eNet solution can support you in being more effective at this.
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Organisations struggle to corral data into useable and actionable intelligence
PWC’s CEO survey reports that organisations struggle to corral data into useable and actionable intelligence, and the main reason for their frustration is ‘lack of analytical talent’, followed closely by ‘data siloing’ and ‘poor data reliability’. i2O’s new iNet solution helps water companies address these three issues, and deliver actionable insight that will help identify and resolve network problems quickly (before customers call, reputation is damaged, and regulatory penalties apply), and schedule maintenance efficiently on the basis of condition rather than time/risk.
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i2O continue to contribute innovative thinking to the water industry – 2018 in review
In 2018, i2O added new clients, extended its smart network solution set, enhanced quality, further reduced hardware cost and passed it onto clients, and continued to contribute innovative thinking to the water industry.
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i2O launches new network monitoring, insights and analytics software solution
i2O is delighted to announce the re-launch of iNet as a full-blown network monitoring, insights and analytics software solution. Basic functionality—graphing of data and threshold alarms—will in future be provided as standard as part of the dNet solution.
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Detecting network problems before customers do
Pace “Detecting Network Problems Before Users Do” by Stefano Gridelli of NetBeez, 13 June 2017 In a perfect world, water networks have 100% uptime and adequate pressure. In reality, customers experience loss of pressure, water quality issues, and outages. In under-invested networks, this is even more frequent. Yet, providing a good customer experience is possible. Detecting problems before customers do is not a fortune teller’s trick, but something that can be achieved with the right tools and processes in place. So how can Network Engineers achieve Zen for their networks?
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i2O ships first 4G NB-IoT logger
i2O, the smart water network solutions company, has today shipped its first 4G NB-IoT (Narrow Band Internet of Things) logger. NB-IoT is a low power wide area network (LPWAN) technology from mobile phone companies that is now being switched on in a number of countries. It is designed to enable industrial devices to have access to wider and deeper network coverage with longer battery life and lower cost, at scale.
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Summertime and the livin' isn’t easy
The UK Climate Projections 2018 study says that summer temperatures could be 5.4C hotter by 2070. The chances of having a summer as warm as this year’s summer (2018) is currently 15-20%. That’s going to rise to 50%. In other words, as likely as not. The warmer summers will also be much drier, with average summer rainfall dropping by 47%.
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i2O partners with Ubisense to deliver powerful network monitoring and analytics solution for water utilities
i2O, the smart water network solutions company, today announced a new partnership with Ubisense, the global leader in enterprise location intelligence solutions. The resulting integration of Ubisense’s myWorld platform with i2O’s network monitoring and analytics iNet solution provides water utilities with a powerful new way of identifying issues on the network and assessing the condition of assets on the network.
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i2O launches new Control Logger as part of its iNet network monitoring and analytics solution
i2O, the smart water network solutions company, has today announced the launch of its new Control Logger. The device is a pressure and flow logger with 3 pressures and bidirectional flow capability. This would typically be used at the entry to a zone on a PRV to measure upstream, downstream and control space pressures and record flow from the pulse output of a flow meter.
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Environmental extremists and overzealous bureaucrats
We often cite as the challenges that water companies face: increasing and urbanising population, ageing infrastructure, water scarcity and more extreme weather events, more demanding customers, an ageing workforce, and difficulties in raising or accessing capital. The congressmen who are pictured around the President of the United States of America when he signed the Presidential Memorandum on Promoting the Reliable Supply and Delivery of Water in the West, issued on October 19, 2018, believe that it is environmental extremists and overzealous bureaucrats who have created the water crisis in the West of the USA.
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No water for 300 families in Greater Noida for 2 days
Greater Noida City is a north Indian city with a population in excess of 100,000, located in the Gautam Budh Nagar district of the northern state of Uttar Pradesh. A valve in the pipeline failed on Saturday. Residents complained about the lack of water. Water tankers were dispatched to provide temporary supply. Supply was resumed on Sunday evening. So reports the Times of India. It could have happened almost anywhere in the world.
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Loggers in Lebanon
EBML, the water authority of Beirut and Mount Lebanon, has installed i2O’s dNet solution to gain detailed insight into the performance and condition of its water network.
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SCADA isn’t a panacea
Kristina Foster, Marketing Communications Manager at Sensus and formerly of Schneider Electric has written an interesting post about asset maintenance.
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False alarms
How many false alarms do you get from monitoring equipment on your treatment works and distribution network? How many times are alarms cancelled with no need for further action? How often are you woken in the night by a car alarm going off? All too often, no doubt.
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That sinking feeling
Sinkholes make great pictures. There’s something unsettling about the idea of the ground opening up and swallowing houses, cars, even people.
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Mei Carmel selects i2O loggers to monitor water network performance
i2O, the smart water network solutions company, today announced that Israeli water utility Mei Carmel has selected its loggers to monitor and measure the performance of its water network.
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South West Water selects i2O for loggers
South West Water, the provider of water and wastewater services to 1.7 million residents of Cornwall, Devon, Dorset and Somerset, has selected loggers from i2O to instrument its clean water distribution network.
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South West Water becomes first client for new iNet solution
South West Water, the provider of water and wastewater services to 1.7 million residents of Cornwall, Devon, Dorset and Somerset, has adopted new data analytics software from i2O, the smart water network technology company, to monitor the condition of Pressure Reducing Valves (PRVs) on its 15,000 kilometre network.
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Water utilities gain new insight from network data
i2O, the smart water network company, today launched a new software tool to help water companies monitor their networks and improve performance using data. i2O’s iNet software increases the ability of water companies to analyse and make automated decisions based on pressure and flow data and is the first software product available that diagnoses problems with Pressure Reducing Valves (PRVs) automatically.
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Anglian Water selects i2O Water
i2O Water, the Smart Water Networks Company, today announced that it has been appointed by Anglian Water to help meet future demand for water, improve service levels and reduce its environmental impact.
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