Household Smart Water Metering in Spain: Insights from the Experience of Remote Meter Reading in Alicante
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Título: | Household Smart Water Metering in Spain: Insights from the Experience of Remote Meter Reading in Alicante |
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Autor/es: | March, Hug | Morote Seguido, Álvaro Francisco | Rico, Antonio | Sauri, David |
Grupo/s de investigación o GITE: | Agua y Territorio | Clima y Ordenación del Territorio |
Centro, Departamento o Servicio: | Universidad de Alicante. Departamento de Análisis Geográfico Regional y Geografía Física | Universidad de Alicante. Instituto Interuniversitario de Geografía |
Palabras clave: | Smart meters | Remote meter reading | Water utility | ICT | Water demand-side management | South Europe |
Área/s de conocimiento: | Análisis Geográfico Regional |
Fecha de publicación: | 11-abr-2017 |
Editor: | MDPI |
Cita bibliográfica: | March H, Morote Á-F, Rico A-M, Saurí D. Household Smart Water Metering in Spain: Insights from the Experience of Remote Meter Reading in Alicante. Sustainability. 2017; 9(4):582. doi:10.3390/su9040582 |
Resumen: | Since the past few years, the smart city paradigm has been influencing sustainable urban water resources management. Smart metering schemes for end users have become an important strategy for water utilities to have an in-depth and fine-grained knowledge about urban water use. Beyond reducing certain labor costs, such as those related to manual meter reading, such detailed and continuous flow of information is said to enhance network efficiency and improve water planning by having more detailed demand patterns and forecasts. Research focusing on those initiatives has been very prolific in countries such as Australia. However, less academic attention has been paid to the development of smart metering in other geographies. This paper focuses on smart water metering in Spain and, more particularly, documents and reflects on the experience of the city of Alicante (southeastern Spain), a pioneer case of massive deployment of remote reading of water meters at the household level and for large urban customers. Through data and interviews with water managers from the water utility, we shed light on the costs and early benefits, as well as the potentialities and (unexpected) problems of this technology to contribute to more sustainable urban water cycles. |
URI: | http://hdl.handle.net/10045/65488 |
ISSN: | 2071-1050 |
DOI: | 10.3390/su9040582 |
Idioma: | eng |
Tipo: | info:eu-repo/semantics/article |
Derechos: | © 2017 by the authors. Licensee MDPI, Basel, Switzerland. This article is an open access article distributed under the terms and conditions of the Creative Commons Attribution (CC BY) license (http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/4.0/). |
Revisión científica: | si |
Versión del editor: | http://dx.doi.org/10.3390/su9040582 |
Aparece en las colecciones: | INV - CyOT - Artículos de Revistas INV - Agua y Territorio - Artículos de Revistas |
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