Cranberry Analytics, a water management company based in India, is using SenRa’s public LoRaWan for its upcoming smart water metering project in Goa.

Recently, India’s Panaji PWD awarded its smart water metering contract to Cranberry Analytics with an initial phase of replacing 3094 consumer-grade mechanical water meters with LoRaWan-enabled ultrasonic smart water meters. In support of this project, SenRa will be deploying its public network across Panaji to enable the streaming of the smart water meter data.

“Having worked on multiple such projects in the past ten years, both with mechanical water meters and smart devices, we understand the nuances of this technology spectrum and how critical it is to have a stable and reliable network partner for the success of such projects,” said Shishir Thakur, CTO of Cranberry Analytics. “Since SenRa is one of the very few network providers in India which has worked on LoRaWan-related products extensively and has a good presence in the region, we have chosen to partner with them for this project.”

Cranberry Analytics’ smart water metering provides a more sustainable approach to managing water supply and distribution by analysing water consumption data daily to detect anomalies in water distribution and consumption. Correlation of those data with other data streams helps cities effectively plan water distribution, mitigate water wastage and improve consumer billing.

“Assuring a regular and long-term supply of potable water to Indian households requires constant monitoring of service level indicators,” said Kush Mishra, CTO at SenRa. “We are excited to partner with Cranberry Analytics and utilise our expertise in LoRaWan-based metering systems to solve this problem with reliable LoRaWan services.”

The Panaji smart city project is the latest in a slew of metering projects that SenRa is supporting to improve water sustainability in India. SenRa’s commercial grade public network is connecting tens of thousands of smart meters in smart cities, smart societies, and industrial facilities across India.

In addition to SenRa’s progress in the Indian market, SenRa has seen an increase in demand for LoRaWan services in the MEASEA region focused on environmental and sustainability efforts.

Cranberry Analytics works with government, semi-government and water infrastructure companies to boost established, often archaic processes with technological expertise, R&D and policy frameworks. It is especially known for unrolling a spectrum of functions and technologies to Pimpri Chinchwad Municipal Corporation (PCMC), Pune, India, for effective water supply management of a population of 25 lakh citizens. Since the project’s inception in 2012, the company has been able to deliver value in terms of water savings, increased revenues for the municipal body and heightened customer satisfaction. This has resulted in savings of 31 billion litres of water annually, measuring 95,000 million litres daily.