De Watergroep is an integrated water company that provides services within the entire water chain. Through a network of over 34,000 kilometers of pipes, it serves 3.3 million household customers in 177 Flemish municipalities in West and East Flanders, Flemish Brabant and Limburg. This makes De Watergroep the largest drinking water company in Flanders. De Watergroep has 85 groundwater reclamations and 5 surface water reclamations, together good for a drinking water production of 132 million m³ in 2020. De Watergroep is also a partner in the development of municipal sewerage networks and supplied more than 9 million m³ of tailor-made industrial water to industrial customers in 2020. De Watergroep selects a sustainable and suitable water source (such as river water, rainwater or effluent from an industrial water treatment plant) at the location of these customers and converts it to the desired final quality.
The number of assets available to an organization like De Watergroep is gigantic.
We don’t need to tell you that it’s a feat to keep track of them. A first challenge is to gain insight into where their vehicles and materials are located.
Having an overview of the locations of all these assets is of course one thing. But what can we do with them? The biggest question is of course to what extent they can automate and optimize complex processes.
To make that possible you need more than just the location of your assets.
It is in De Watergroep’s interest to know who is driving the vehicles, what materials are present in a particular vehicle or warehouse and what condition your machines, materials and tools are in. You are nothing to do with a crane that is in the right place but turns out to be faulty.
All the collected data is centralized on the Suivo IoT Cloud platform. The data can be consulted at any time, as well as reports and dashboards to visualize the data. The dashboards make the data easy to interpret and in this way De Watergroep can switch faster and make decisions.
