Real Time Metering of Residential Water Consumption and Discharge

Effective asset management requires the network to be monitored to provide real-time information and drive efficient and informed customer focused outcomes. A silo approach to asset management is currently used with data monitoring for sewer and water networks being independent of one another.This paper will demonstrate the advantages real-time data collection provides across the network with improved insight into customer patterns and how to monitor and manage the network.Data collection has reached affordable levels for organisations, combined with improved logging capability. This paper combines technologies to offer a total asset perspective for the trial site. Data from residential water consumption and sewer disposal sites are collected and analysed against the reticulated water supplied to the area.The collected data will offer a complete view of the asset and will demonstrate how an aging infrastructure can be more efficiently managed and indicate changing patterns in consumer behaviour.