Compared with the previous smart water meter, the performance of this narrow-band IoT water meter has been significantly improved. By embedding modules, narrow-band IoT water meters can rely on communication operators to achieve wireless remote data transmission, achieving wide-area coverage. Since the data is online in real time, it can be easily managed remotely, and once a leak is found, it can be discovered in time to improve customer response time. In addition, low power consumption, long battery life, and reduced installation and maintenance costs have fundamentally improved the operational stability of the water company and the urban water efficiency.

Melbourne's South east Water, the world's first deployment of narrowband IoT water meters, is also confident in this technology. Kevin Hutchings, executive director of South east Water, said on the social platform LinkedIn that the potential benefits of narrow-band IoT technology are enormous. The application in the water supply industry is the best embodiment of technology development, as new technologies continue to be standardized, stabilized and low-cost. The future is worth looking forward to.

With the advent of smart cities, cloud services, the era of big data, and the availability of all core technologies such as low-cost sensors, the Internet of things has become the trend of the times. As early as December 2015, EMI Technology launched the tracking and development of IoT water meters based on narrowband IoT(NB-IoT) communication technology, and the smart water big data cloud platform supported by the network operator's networked cloud narrowband IoT infrastructure.