Emergency Services & Local Government
Emergency Services & Local Government to use Qonnectis technology to manage water and energy consumption. Qonnectis plc (“Qonnectis”), the energy and water conservation IT services provider, has won orders and begun deliveries to two new customers in the UK.

A UK national water conservation consultancy has introduced Qonnectis’ remote meter reading and myMeter web services to caravan parks on behalf of its local authority customers. This will allow the local authority to remotely read and analyse the water consumption of these traditionally high consumption sites, thus enabling maximised water efficiency and minimised leakage. The first installations are taking place with a major county council in England. Country councils typically have several thousand council buildings and sites under their responsibility.

A large UK emergency services authority is also beginning multi-site use of Qonnectis’ products and services. This is a true added-value, multi-utility solution encompasing water, gas and electricity smart metering, whereby the authority’s meters will be read every 15 to 30 minutes for energy and water efficiency purposes. This represents another new market segment entry for Qonnectis and this emergency services organisation alone has over 100 sites in the UK.

Both of the above organisations chose Qonnectis because they saw the inherent value-add in its smart metering solution, which allows energy and water consumption data to be communicated remotely and securely from multiple highly dispersed sites throughout the UK back to a central data centre and to be made accessible via simple web interfaces. Qonnectis now has over 45 national and international utilities, end user businesses and public sector organisations utilising the system.

Michael Tapia, Chief Executive, stated: “We are extremely pleased that these customers have selected Qonnectis to help them meet their water and energy efficiency objectives. It is further testimony to the fact that many public sector organisations are seeking to make real financial savings in terms of their energy and water consumption, whilst simultaneously benefiting the environment. We look forward to assisting these and the many other organisations who have expressed an interest in our technologies in achieving their goals and in propagating the solution throughout their sites.”