Smart city: Suez presents ON'connect

Suez introduces ON’connect, its new generation of long-range radio network, a technology to securely connect large-scale objects, to collect and process mass data for city actors (water counting or Energy, air quality, filling voluntary buckets, noise ...).

These data enable Suez to design new services (alert in the event of suspected leaks, monitoring the occupancy rate of housing for communities in tourist areas, etc.) through collaborative approaches with the territories and their ecosystems including Citizen organizations and the local economic fabric. These services aim to increase the well-being of city users while encouraging responsible consumption of resources.

The new generation of long-range radio network in Suez is intended for the use of smart cities. In particular, it benefits from the best performance for the connection of hard-to-reach objects (buried, installed in deep cellar, without power supply) with a minimum of necessary equipment. The long range Suez operating on the frequency 169Mhz is also bidirectional, interoperable, and conforms to the European standard EN13757. This solution uses the same technological platform used by GRDF to deploy the 11 million gas communicating meters in France.

In France, Biarritz has already adopted this technology. With the help of tele-readers, Suez is working on the prediction of the use of the territory using water consumption data to manage the attractiveness of the city, to monitor and anticipate the attendance of tourist accommodation and second homes. In Mulhouse, the Water Department decided to continue the installation of the communicating water meters to the 13 other municipalities in the agglomeration. 40,000 meters will be managed by the public authority by the end of 2020.