Partnership-led water pressure monitoring is helping utilities reduce investigation costs, improve visibility and support non-revenue water reduction, shifting digital metering from a technology rollout to a more strategic, outcome-driven approach.
Pressure management, mandated in operating licence conditions, has always been important to utilities. But emerging use cases now extend beyond data collection, informing interventions and deeper collaboration. It’s this shift from supplier to partner that is starting to reshape how digital metering programs are delivered.
Through its work with Hunter Water, Intellihub has focused not just on deploying technology but also on collaborating on specific operational challenges. Pressure monitoring across potable and recycled networks is a clear example of that approach.
How water pressure monitoring delivers operational savings
“We are achieving greater than 99 per cent data delivery from our deployed meters, but didn’t want to stop there,” Danial Arif, Smart Water Operations Manager at Intellihub, said. “We partner with utilities to help them understand what the data is telling them and how they can act on it.”
Rather than rolling out devices at scale, the partnership has focused on where pressure data can inform issue severity and customer impact. In practice, that means working alongside the utility to determine meter placement and interpret data, reducing uncertainty and costly decisions.
