'Smart Water' Technology Sparks Spending Change For Municipal Water

摘要

Solutions to the continuing conflicts between aging infrastructure and pressure on utilities to ensure a safe, resilient water supply, are increasingly focused on software, data and analytics. In US Smart Water: Defining the Opportunity, Competitive Landscape, and Market Outlook, Bluefield Research quantifies the trend, predicting that utilities will spend more than $20 billion over the next decade on such "smart water" technology. "Historically, utilities have been hobbled by their inability to generate actionable insights from disparate networks and water usage data, but this is changing with more advanced data management and cloud-based solutions," said Will Maize, senior analyst at Bluefield Research.