VA Syd has been struggling with the leaking of drinking water in the pipelines for a long time causing water loss and thus impacting the economic performance of the water supply company. Subsequently, this also increased pressure on natural water resources, as more water was produced than it was actually needed. Due to leackage, the lost water has been dispersing into the ground to the underlying sewage pipelines and thus the treatment plant had to purify already clean water. Moreover, the most crucial issue was how to deal with the justified saving behaviour on the consumer's side: How can consumers be required to save water when 20% of the clean water leaks into the ground?

To get started we introduced the leak detection solution with the SIWA Leak Finder. While collecting data from consumers' smart meters, we could offer SIWA Water Meters module to administer and keep track of all smart meters in the area.
A major challenge during the project was that the VA industry in Sweden required the "on premise" solution securing that all data and calculations are not saved in the cloud. We solved this with a locally delivered hardware where the software was installed.

Leakage detection SW in water pipe system