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Water, Water Everywhere...

Moti Tabulo, Cellular Product Strategy

March 2015

Confidential

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Why bring change to the water industry?

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• By 2025 – 4 bn people

• half of the global population may be facing water scarcity/shortage

• By 2050 – 9 bn people, less than 100 litres per day

• 1 bn people < 100 litres of fresh water for basic needs

• Right now western world consumes 200-380 litres daily

Smart metering to the rescue?

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Smart Water Metering Communications; what they say and want

• ‘fit and forget for 20 years’ meters; long battery life

• Connect first time to back-end systems

• Reliable managed bandwidth; ability for OTA upgrades

• Anything that reduces revisits

• Data management and data analytics

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Cellular IoT to provide Massive Volume Low Power Wireless Connections

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Billions of connections Low cost devices

Low power operation

Deep penetration

100K per Cell

20dB+ Cell Edge

<US$5 per module

10-year battery life

CIoT

Integrates into cellular system

Easy deployment

Network

Platform

Water Meter

Cellular IoT

MDMS

(Meter Data Management

System)

Head-end System

(Meter Data Collection

System)

ApplicationCRM Billing Prepaym

entERP EMS GIS

Data bus

DMS

Module

The end to end smart meter solution

Substantially reduced deployment cost

• Case of rollout of 1.1m smart meters in a large UK catchment area

• With proprietary wireless technology

• Equipment Capex: 1700 Base Stations, 5600 Relays

• Site Acquisition & Install, Rental

• Equipment Maintenance & Spares

• ~£25M real cost, not including

• Rollout Project Management

• Server hardware

• Logistics/shipping to site

• Risk due to unlicensed spectrum

• CIoT is an upgrade to existing base stations = no need for above

Money saved, happier customer experience

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• Reduced OPEX – fewer manual meter reads

• Reduce customer complaint handling – instant verification of bill queries

• Leakage detection (Supply and customer side)

• Streamlined meter reading – no need to access property

Increased Revenue

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• Improved accuracy of meter reads

• Streamline special meter read process

• Reduce non-revenue water

Community and social

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• Increase goodwill in community

• Proactive approach approved by community

• Better education and awareness of water value

Enabling the Internet of (Real) Things

• By 2022 there will be over 3 billion low power, wide area, wireless access connections*

• CIoT will enable applications such as

• Utilities: Gas and water metering

• Smart cities: Lightening, parking sensors, waste control

• Building automation: Alarm systems, HVAC, access control

• Consumer: White goods, people/animal tracking

• Agriculture/environmental: Monitoring of land , pollution, noise, rain etc

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* Source Machina Research

Thank you!

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