Thorigné-Fouillard, France and Gliwice, Poland, May 6, 2021: Kerlink, a specialist in solutions dedicated to the Internet of Things (IoT), and AIUT, an international expert in IoT-dedicated solutions, have completed Poland’s largest LoRaWAN network for water-supply monitoring and management using Kerlink Wirnet LoRaWAN gateways and AIUT’s sensors. This is the first implementation of its kind and scale in Poland, covering an entire city and utilizing LoRaWAN technology.
A press release by Kerlink said the AIUT deployed the wireless network in Piekary Śląskie, a city of 55,000 residents spread across 40 square kilometers. As part of its portfolio of Smart City IoT solutions, AIUT provides cities with flexible, easy-to-use and quick-to-implement systems for remote, stationary utility-meter readouts, measurement and leak detection based on the best and most cost-effective technologies. The hourly and daily readouts provide real-time monitoring of the municipal water supply network’s operation, while reducing operating costs for the water utility.
Commissioned by the Municipal Water and Sewerage Company in Piekary Śląskie, the system includes approximately 6,500 IoT smart devices attached to water meters for transmitting usage data via 15 Kerlink Wirnet iStations to the system’s central water-control office.
Kerlink, a leading provider of solutions for designing, launching and operating public and private LoRaWAN IoT networks, offers a comprehensive product portfolio of leading industrial-grade network equipment, best-of-breed network-core, operations and management software and value-added applications. The company has more than 120,000 installations in 69 countries in all the primary IoT verticals.
The system also opens the way for development of smart-city applications and shows that the inevitable use of IoT technology is the strategic direction for the Polish economy to develop, which has been confirmed by the Polish Ministry of Digitization.