{"id":142768,"date":"2016-11-09T13:11:11","date_gmt":"2016-11-09T11:11:11","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/businesstech.co.za\/news\/?p=142768"},"modified":"2016-11-09T13:11:11","modified_gmt":"2016-11-09T11:11:11","slug":"mtn-and-huawei-launch-smart-water-metering-solution","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/businesstech.co.za\/news\/it-services\/142768\/mtn-and-huawei-launch-smart-water-metering-solution\/","title":{"rendered":"MTN and Huawei launch smart water metering solution"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>MTN and Huawei have launched the Smart Water Metering solution, the \u201cfirst Narrowband Internet of Things (NB-IoT) solution in Africa\u201d.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cThe Smart Water metering solution enables the automated collection of utility meter data. Through sensors installed in water meters, customers can identify water pipeline leakage earlier,\u201d said MTN.<\/p>\n<p>The companies said household water meters will automatically report data on a regular basis, reducing fault probabilities and the operating expense.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cPowered by the NB-IoT technology by Huawei, the sensor array is designed to serve as a diagnostic spine that underpins network management.<\/p>\n<p>The data gathered can be used to control waste water flows from each property, identify faults across the network, and improve health and safety outcomes.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cThe Smart Water Metering service from MTN will be commercially deployed in 2017. MTN and Huawei will showcase a live Smart Water Metering demo and other IoT services at AfricaCom 2016.\u201d<\/p>\n<p><strong>Read this: <a href=\"http:\/\/businesstech.co.za\/news\/general\/142508\/joburg-metro-to-cut-off-water-supply-at-night-under-new-rationing-measures\/\" target=\"_blank\">Joburg metro to cut off water supply at night under new rationing measures<\/a><\/strong><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>MTN and Huawei have launched the Smart Water Metering solution, the \u201cfirst Narrowband Internet of Things (NB-IoT) solution in Africa\u201d.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":31,"featured_media":109699,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[31,34],"tags":[25],"class_list":["post-142768","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-it-services","category-mobile","tag-active"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/businesstech.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/142768","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/businesstech.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/businesstech.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/businesstech.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/31"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/businesstech.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=142768"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/businesstech.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/142768\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":142770,"href":"https:\/\/businesstech.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/142768\/revisions\/142770"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/businesstech.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/109699"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/businesstech.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=142768"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/businesstech.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=142768"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/businesstech.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=142768"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}