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PCP for Water Smart Metering

Objective

European Water utilities environment is embedded in a context dealing with global issues such as water scarcity and technical-economic issues such as infrastructure aging. Management of drinking water supply is facing key challenges partly related to traditional water meter, such as managing capital and operational costs; water loss (also known as non-revenue water) due to leaks and other system failures; and water scarcity/conservation.
The core of the solution lies in the renewed access and use of accurate data that Smart Water Metering can provide to decrease operating costs, identify performance issues, improve customer service and better prioritize infrastructure investments.

SMART.MET strongly paves the way to a more efficient management providing for example automatic reading of the household meters and billing, real time assessment of water balance for leak detection, identification of abnormal behaviors and awareness-raising, ability to identify user-meters defaults.

However, the lack of common European standards and lack of “open technological platforms” combined to the high transaction cost on the demand side create a lock-in situation in the market and determine a situation of long-term dependency of water operators on technology providers. This determines high average operating costs for water operators and users, as well as collective inefficiency related to the multiplication of different proprietary solutions on the offer side.

The objective of the proposal is thus to drive the development of new technologies to manage smart metering data collection and management, driven by a group of 7 water utilities through a joint Pre Commercial Procurement (PCP).
They are supported by 6 expert organizations for assessing the technologies, implement the new procurement procedures and disseminate the outcomes of the project to other utilities and solutions suppliers.
The duration of the project is 48 months.

Call for proposal

H2020-ICT-2016-2017

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Sub call

H2020-ICT-2016-1

Coordinator

OFFICE INTERNATIONAL DE L'EAU
Net EU contribution
€ 115 931,27
Address
Rue De Madrid 21
75008 Paris
France

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Region
Ile-de-France Ile-de-France Paris
Activity type
Other
Other funding
€ 17 880,91

Participants (12)

VIVERACQUA SCARL
Italy
Net EU contribution
€ 568 162,36
Address
Lungadige Galtarossa 8
37133 Verona

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Region
Nord-Est Veneto Verona
Activity type
Other
Other funding
€ 63 129,15
CONSORCIO PARA LA GESTION DE SERVICIOS MEDIOAMBIENTALES DE LA EXMA DIPUTACIÓN DE BADAJOZ
Spain
Net EU contribution
€ 471 276,23
Address
Avenida Pardaleras 64
06003 Badajoz

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Region
Extremadura Badajoz
Activity type
Public bodies (excluding Research Organisations and Secondary or Higher Education Establishments)
Other funding
€ 52 364,03
EAU DE PARIS
France
Net EU contribution
€ 464 383,15
Address
19 Rue Neuve Tolbiac
75214 Paris

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Region
Ile-de-France Ile-de-France Paris
Activity type
Public bodies (excluding Research Organisations and Secondary or Higher Education Establishments)
Other funding
€ 51 598,13
SYNDICAT DES EAUX ET DE L'ASSAINISSEMENT ALSACE MOSELLE
France
Net EU contribution
€ 491 619,19
Address
Espace Europeen Entreprise Rue De Rome 1
67013 Strasbourg

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Region
Grand Est Alsace Bas-Rhin
Activity type
Public bodies (excluding Research Organisations and Secondary or Higher Education Establishments)
Other funding
€ 54 624,35
COMPAGNIE INTERCOMMUNALE LIEGEOISE DES EAUX
Belgium
Net EU contribution
€ 500 697,88
Address
Rue Canal De L'ourthe 8
4031 Liege

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Region
Région wallonne Prov. Liège Arr. Liège
Activity type
Public bodies (excluding Research Organisations and Secondary or Higher Education Establishments)
Other funding
€ 55 633,10
VIVAQUA SCRL
Belgium
Net EU contribution
€ 464 383,15
Address
Boulevard De L Imperatrice 17-19
1000 Bruxelles

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Region
Région de Bruxelles-Capitale/Brussels Hoofdstedelijk Gewest Région de Bruxelles-Capitale/ Brussels Hoofdstedelijk Gewest Arr. de Bruxelles-Capitale/Arr. Brussel-Hoofdstad
Activity type
Other
Other funding
€ 51 598,13
FOVAROSI VIZMUVEK ZARTKORUEN MUKODORESZVENYTARSASAG
Hungary
Net EU contribution
€ 482 540,52
Address
Vaci Ut 182
1138 Budapest

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Region
Közép-Magyarország Budapest Budapest
Activity type
Private for-profit entities (excluding Higher or Secondary Education Establishments)
Other funding
€ 53 615,61
ARAGON PARTNERS SRL
Italy
Net EU contribution
€ 107 212,50
Address
Viale Delle Milizie 38
00192 Roma

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Region
Centro (IT) Lazio Roma
Activity type
Private for-profit entities (excluding Higher or Secondary Education Establishments)
Other funding
€ 11 912,50
UNIVERSITE DE LIMOGES
France
Net EU contribution
€ 56 025,00
Address
François Mitterrand 33
87032 Limoges

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Region
Nouvelle-Aquitaine Limousin Haute-Vienne
Activity type
Higher or Secondary Education Establishments
Other funding
€ 6 225,00
FUNDACION NUEVA CULTURA DEL AGUA
Spain
Net EU contribution
€ 86 906,25
Address
Callepedro Cerbuna 12 4 Dcha
50009 Zaragoza

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Region
Noreste Aragón Zaragoza
Activity type
Research Organisations
Other funding
€ 9 656,25
AQUA PUBLICA EUROPEA
Belgium
Net EU contribution
€ 64 631,25
Address
Boulevard De L'imperatrice 17-19
1000 Bruxelles

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Region
Région de Bruxelles-Capitale/Brussels Hoofdstedelijk Gewest Région de Bruxelles-Capitale/ Brussels Hoofdstedelijk Gewest Arr. de Bruxelles-Capitale/Arr. Brussel-Hoofdstad
Activity type
Other
Other funding
€ 7 181,25
BEDIN SARA
Italy
Net EU contribution
€ 115 875,00
Activity type
Private for-profit entities (excluding Higher or Secondary Education Establishments)
Other funding
€ 12 875,33