Yorkshire Water are partnering with Arqiva and Sensus, a Xylem brand, in a second smart meter trial in Sheffield, which they hope could play a key role in their leakage reduction strategy, ensuring security of supply into the future and saving up to 250,000 litres of water per burst.

Communications infrastructure and media services specialists Arqiva has completed an extension to its smart water metering fixed network trial for Anglian Water, one of the largest water companies in England and Wales.

In the first in a series of Expert Focus articles on technology-led solutions which can drive down leakage, Kevin Brook, Sales Director at Primayer examines the advantages of fixed networks - the results, the economics and the technology - compared with traditional approaches.