Australian integrated corporate water savings company WaterGroup has sealed a multi-year deal to licence Reekoh’s IoT open integration platform for use within its range of smart metering and water savings services.
WaterGroup says the licensing partnership with Reekoh is aimed at building on its previous water and cost savings successes and is a move which will help tackle one of the major issues facing non-residential water users in Australia – losing 200 billion litres of water each year.
WaterGroup claims in the past 12 months it has helped its Australian customers realise water savings of almost 300 million litres and cost savings of over $1 million.
“With Reekoh’s new platform bringing true interoperability and flexibility to a core part of WaterGroup’s solutions, which include IoT hardware, networks and customer applications, we are confident in predicting Reekoh will play a key part in achieving the next $1 million in water savings for our existing and future clients,“ says Guenter Hauber-Davidson, Managing Director of WaterGroup.
{loadposition peter}According to WaterGroup the partnership with Reekoh is already off to a good start, with projects for Waverley Council and Coffs Harbour Council geared towards improving the way the councils collect data on water usage, the use of data to reduce the likelihood of water leaks and other such damage to their water networks and to deliver increased water efficiency and savings.
“With Reekoh’s interoperability capabilities, it’s easier for our clients to integrate data with their own existing sustainability reporting, workflow and facility management systems – and to realise savings in both water and money,” Guenter says.
Reekoh CEO and co-founder Dale Rankine says the company sees WaterGroup as leaders in not only the smart water conservation space, but more broadly in the IoT ecosystem in Australia.
“This despite the fact that the market is still maturing in terms of the hardware, networks and software solutions being adopted by customers. That‘s where the Reekoh integration platform comes in to play – it has proved itself capable of dealing with the challenge of fragmentation as well as delivering the flexibility of true interoperability to customers.
“With the Reekoh platform being used in WaterGroup’s smart water metering systems, WaterGroup customers don’t need to be locked into a particular technology if they want to realise the benefits of IoT-based solutions and services. This in turn helps ensure that WaterGroup delivers outcomes to its customers such as faster installation and tangible savings in dollars and water.”