Water 4.0: enabling Smart Water and Environmental Data Metering

Smart metering represents an interesting field, where IoT can bring huge benefits to collect and analyze water and environmental data. However, it presents well-known issues such as the presence of high heterogeneity at the hardware, software, and network layers. This is even amplified by the vendors’ tendency to adopt proprietary solutions and different low-power wireless communication protocols for IoT sensors and metering devices. Realizing an interoperable platform for the collection and analysis of smart Water and environmental data metering thus becomes a complex task, that needs to address multiple requirements at several levels, starting from the collection of data on the field (IoT sensors, smart meters) and its processing on Cloud Computing platforms. The Water 4.0 project, which involves a collaboration between universities and private companies, including Dipietro Group, aims at addressing these challenges. This paper presents the comprehensive smart environmental data metering solution that we realized within Water 4.0, that enables data collection, data-processing, and Over-The-Air (OTA) for IoT devices, with the ultimate goal of reducing water losses and monitoring water quality.