Smart water sensors and devices can make water management safer and more efficient for workers and consumers through a real-time collection of data, alerting and taking actions to prevent the occurrence of issues.
Securely
integrate new devices
It
is very important to ensure that your devices and network are secure to ensure
no one can cause problems on the system. It is also essential to safeguard a
secure start by mapping and identifying out all of your assets to know the
right security strategy for your network. Forgetting one device can leave the
entire network vulnerable. This means that both new devices and legacy should
be identified as needed or in-place.
It
is crucial to isolate the network into zones to reduce the risk of an attack
spreading through the entire network. You should build real-time threat
detection in your smart water solutions systems so that your IT
team can be notified of threats or vulnerabilities and address them
immediately.
Putting
operational efficiency into consideration is very important when adding new
devices. This will increase the amount of data collected. All utilities aren’t
built equal. Adding IoT devices that have a greater impact on your customers
and network, whether that be public safety, operational efficiency, public awareness
or some other issue of great importance to your goals.
Process
data at the edge
Integrating
IoT devices across the infrastructure will create a lot of new data to process.
Moving the data to the cloud or enterprise could be a costly and heavy lift. It
can also delay the alerting of essential data for promptly triggering a
response to a potential hazard.
To
reduce the costs of the overall network and speed up the processing of smartwater data, intelligence should be embedded at the point it is collected.
This is known as edge computing and it can allow different types of automated
processes across the system.
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