Water Measurement, Management and Forecasting System (PCMC)

Nov 2016 - Ongoing

Project Introduction & Objectives

 

After 4 years of working with PCMC on water billing, we proposed them a more comprehensive analytics solution solution, which provides in addition to the old services:

  • On-spot billing instead of capturing data and sending a bill to the consumer after 15 days

  • Monthly billing instead of quarterly to all high consumption customers

  • On-spot payment collection

  • Underground leak detection analysis through Geo-tagging of every water meter and its comparison with DMA-wise supply

  • Water consumption analysis and business intelligence for better water distribution

  • Policies to aid in laying pipelines and infrastructure development through analysis of past data patterns

  • Integration with all modes of digital payment system and PCMC’s accounts department

  • Integration with SCADA systems for sensor data collection and analysis

  • Integration with SLB

  • Integration with Automated Metering Infrastructure

We are proud to state that due to our efforts and optimisations, approx. 10 thousand million liters of water is being saved every year in PCMC

Impact

Increase in annual revenue from Rs.18 cr to Rs. 45 cr

We are effectively measuring approx. 95,000 million liters of water every year now

Approx. 10,000 million liters of water is being saved every year in PCMC

 

On-spot bill generation has completely eradicated the few issues we had when the bills were being generated in batches and distributed later. All business intelligence and consumption pattern analysis is now done through our app at the consumers’ premises for real time problem discovery, resolution and/or reporting.

Data analysis backed policy development is helping the water distribution department in providing a more equitable distribution. Where earlier some areas were receiving more water than need and some were deprived, data led decision making is leading to more need & consumption backed water distribution.

In our previous engagement of 4 years, we brought PCMC’s annual revenue from 18 cr. to 35 cr. Now, it has crossed 42 crores from further optimisations. And PCMC is in a position to raise their water rates which will slowly in a few years bring the revenue to 100 cr. , equivalent to their OPEX; due to our constant campaigning.

We are effectively measuring approx. 95,000 million liters of water every year now.

And are proud to state that due to our efforts, even at a very conservative estimate, approx. 10,000 million liters of water is being saved every year in PCMC alone.