As part of Qatium’s mission to make digital water management available to all water utilities, we partner with other service providers across the sector who are playing their part in advancing Open Water.
One such partner is Taggle Systems: Australia’s leading supplier of Digital Water Solutions for councils and water utilities. With over 350,000 meters and sensors deployed throughout Australia, Taggle is driving digital change in IoT solutions in the water management field. Taggle provides a flexible end-to-end solution to gather and share data for purposes such as leak detection, demand management, network optimisation and billing. Delivering economic benefits, enhanced community engagement, and supporting sustainable environmental practices.
Our partnership with Taggle is a further example of Qatium’s embrace of the “Open Water” approach, which encompasses transparency, collaboration, and free sharing of information. The overall goals of Qatium’s Open Water approach are to accelerate innovation, improve accessibility, and create value through collective effort, which are highlighted in the collaboration described below.
Taggle’s unique tools
The Taggle ecosystem is open and agnostic allowing for data to flow between different business systems and partner solutions. This approach is key for Taggle customers to get the most out of their valuable data.
Data collection: Taggle offers a wide range of products for data collection including mechanical and ultrasonic integrated water meters and a variety of add on telemetry devices, which collect data from water meters of all sizes including network meters and other sensors like pressure and level.
These devices transmit data via the Taggle Byron LPWAN, Telstra NB-IoT Network or Myriota Satellite. Data can also be ingested into the ecosystem from other vendors and data sources.
Software Solution: Once collected at the source, the data flows into Taggle’s Aqualus IoT Platform. From there the data is delivered into Aqualus Water, Taggle’s Meter Data Management Platform and directed to other platforms such as Qatium’s. The data can now provide water utilities control and oversight over their water network infrastructure.
Integrating Taggle and Qatium for accurate, up-to-date network information
Data collected from water meters on every property, tank-level sensors, flow regulating valves, pressure regulating valves, flow and pressure sensors across the network is transmitted in near-real-time. With integration between Taggle and Qatium, water utilities can make more informed decisions in their network management, while speeding up implementation time.
For example, by integrating data sent by Taggle’s Digital Water Meters with Qatium’s Water Age Plugin, users can visualize water age across their network with a much higher level of accuracy, thanks to precise water consumption data. This helps water utilities make informed decisions about network operations, like flushing or water main shutdowns, preventing the kind of guesswork that could cause costly water losses and errors.
Data collected from water meters on every property, network meters, boosters, tanks levels, flow regulating valves, pressure regulating valves, flows and pressure sensors across the network is transmitted in near-real-time.
Creating and validating data in Leeton Shire, Australia
The partnership between Qatium and Taggle plays a pivotal role for water network management in Leeton Shire, Australia. This local government area in the agricultural Riverina region of New South Wales is home to 135,000 hectares of irrigated crops, including citrus, rice, cotton, grape, and walnut and wheat.
Qatium gives us access to the kind of streamlined digital solutions usually only available to Australia’s largest utilities.”
—Gerard Simms, Manager of Information and Operational Technologies at Leeton Shire Council
In response to high water loss (43%), and the water treatment plant running up to 23 hours per day during peak times, the Leeton Shire Council established a strategic goal of ensuring sustainable water management. They worked with Qatium to develop a Digital Twin designed to reduce waste, improve efficiency, and support infrastructure planning for future growth.
Council first rolled out Taggle’s digital water meters across 100% of their water network, ensuring accurate real-time data collection and monitoring. They then integrated and implemented Qatium’s Water Intelligence Platform to utilize SCADA data and customer water usage patterns. This model provides actionable insights into network efficiency, areas of water loss, and operational needs, enabling:
-Precisely targeted water main shutdowns
-More effective flushing operations
-Better understanding of the impacts of new residential developments, and
-More efficient fire hydrant testing
The future of water is open
The partnership between Qatium and Taggle showcases the potential of collaboration in the water industry. By utilizing existing platform integrations, water utilities can avoid costly and lengthy integration processes and complexities—for faster time to value, allowing them to concentrate on delivering results more quickly.
At Qatium, we strongly believe that joint efforts, especially in the realm of digital water, are vital for tackling the current and future challenges facing utilities and the broader water sector. To learn more about Qatium partnerships, visit our partner page. Visit their website for more information on Taggle.
