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Cloud-first strategy for water metering at Northumbrian Water Group - UK
With Gridscale X Meter Data Management SaaS; Essex and Suffolk Water, UK

Water

Northumbrian Water Group

Durham United Kingdom

Northumberland, UK
Siemens Xcelerator
Sustainability
  • Reduce water usage 
  • Detect customer side leakage 
  • Large-scale roll-out of 1 million smart meters by 2030 
  • Northumbrian Water Group (NWG) needs to meet UK water regulator Ofwat’s targets for reducing leakages and per capita consumption. 
  • Identify water wastage 
  • The utility services 4.5 million people in the North East of England, and in the South East as Essex & Suffolk Water
Cloud-first strategy at Northumbrian Water Group with Gridscale X Meter Data Management (MDM) SaaS from Siemens
  • NWG is enhancing its ability to detect and reduce household water leaks by connecting more than one million smart water meters to MDM software from Siemens
  • The system will ultimately help NWG to meet UK water regulator Ofwat’s targets for reducing leakages and per capita consumption. 
  • 15 minute interval reads provides critical data to a utility that services 4.5 million people 
  • SaaS solution allows IT resources at NWG to focus on other tasks needing their attention
We ran through a process, looked extensively at quality and costs. Siemens came out on top. It was the smoothest software implementation I've seen in this job.
Nigel Watson, CIO, Northumbrian Water Group
  • Improve customer engagement and satisfaction 
  • SaaS complimented NWG’s cloud-first IT strategy and implementation completed before deadline 
  • Smart metering data and communication to customers enable a reduction in usage 
  • Siemens came out on top for quality and costs 
  • Siemens solution represents the company’s largest ever deployment of grid software 
  • Smoothest implementation ever seen at NWG
Northumbrian Water Group plc is the holding company for several companies in the water supply, sewerage and waste water industries. Its largest subsidiary is Northumbrian Water Ltd., which is one of ten companies in England and Wales that are regulated water supply and sewerage utilities.
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