Intellihub Acquires Taggle Digital Water Meters

Accelerating the Future of Smart Water

Intellihub today announced an agreement to acquire Taggle, Australia and New Zealand’s leading digital water metering provider, significantly expanding its smart water capabilities and reinforcing its commitment to building smarter, more connected utility infrastructure.

The acquisition, subject to standard regulatory approvals, will bring together two businesses with a shared belief that greater visibility of data drives smarter decisions and more valuable outcomes.

Intellihub and Taggle will combine their respective strengths in connected infrastructure, communication networks, digital metering, data services, and financial capacity to help water utilities modernise operations, improve efficiency, preserve valuable water resources, and deliver stronger customer experiences.

The acquisition will expand Intellihub’s digital water footprint to include Taggle’s established network of more than 400,000 connected meters and sensors deployed across municipalities, councils, and water utilities throughout Australia and New Zealand.

“Our acquisition of Taggle will create Australia & New Zealand’s most advanced digital water metering provider. Through Taggle’s extensive digital water metering footprint, existing customer base and digital water technology, combined with Intellihub’s advanced metering technology, market leading deployment, operations, and financial capacity, we believe we can help transform water metering in this country, said Wes Ballantine, Chief Executive Officer of Intellihub.

“Water is one of our most precious resources, yet many water networks still operate with limited visibility between manual meter reads. Intellihub and Taggle will help water providers unlock the benefits of real-time data, digital communications, and intelligent network management – at scale.”

David Peters, Chief Executive Officer of Taggle, said the acquisition marks an exciting new chapter for the business and its customers.

“Taggle has focused on helping councils and water utilities better understand their water networks through high-quality data analytics and proven digital metering solutions. Joining Intellihub will enable us to scale our business more quickly with Intellihub’s deep expertise in digital metering at scale, field services and large-scale infrastructure deployments.

“Together, we can accelerate innovation, expand our reach, and provide even greater value to water utilities seeking trusted and future-ready digital metering solutions at scale.”

Why Digital Water Metering Matters

As climatWe variability, population growth, ageing infrastructure, the expansion of AI data centres, and increasing operating costs place pressure on water networks, the industry is rapidly recognising the value of digital metering and real-time network visibility. Digital water meters provide utilities with timely, accurate data that supports customer-side leak detection, improved customer-side demand management, identification of network-side leaks, more accurate billing, and better infrastructure planning.

For consumers, digital water metering offers greater transparency, faster leak alerts, improved bill accuracy, and more visibility over household water usage. For water providers, it delivers deeper network visibility, reduced non-revenue water, operational management and efficiencies, and stronger long-term planning capability.

Intellihub & Taggle

Just as smart energy meters transformed the electricity sector, the water industry is now entering its own period of digital transformation.

Taggle’s large footprint of digital meters is already enabling reduced network losses, improved revenue recovery, informed infrastructure spending, and increased water security among the typical outcomes achieved through smart water programs.

Intellihub has successfully scaled the largest smart energy meter fleet in Australia and New Zealand, managing more than 3.5 million devices and adding approximately 40,000 devices each month, and believes many of the lessons learned in energy, including large-scale deployments, connected networks, data management, and customer engagement, can now help accelerate the adoption of digital water infrastructure.

Mr Ballantine said the acquisition aligns with Intellihub’s broader strategy of building connected infrastructure platforms that simplify increasingly complex utility networks.

“We’ve seen first-hand in the energy sector how better information leads to better decisions. Smart energy meters have transformed visibility, customer engagement, and network management. We believe the water sector is approaching a similar turning point, and we’re excited to support utilities on that journey.

“Whether it’s electricity, water, electric vehicles, batteries, or other connected assets, the future is being built on intelligent infrastructure and actionable data. This acquisition strengthens our ability to help utilities, communities, and customers navigate that future with confidence.”

Mr Peters said the partnership serves an important role for water utilities and customers.

“For over 15 years Taggle has been an Aussie tech innovator in Digital Water Metering.  This partnership bring scale and expertise to accelerate growth, and help water utilities deliver better outcomes for customers, reduce water losses, and strengthen long-term water security.

“This acquisition supports Taggle’s goal to provide a resilient water supply for a sustainable and healthy planet.”

Intellihub is delivering the infrastructure that connects utilities, technology, and customers through connected hardware, intelligent software, and real-time data.

What began with smart energy meters has evolved into a broader platform supporting electrification, grid optimisation, consumer energy resources, electric vehicle charging, battery orchestration, and increasingly, digital water networks.

The addition of Taggle strengthens Intellihub’s water metering capability and positions the company to play a larger role in helping modernise utility infrastructure across Australia and New Zealand.