Data & Analytics for Water, Power & Public Utilities
Data and Analytics for Water, Power, and Utilities
Turning meter, sensor, and asset data into leak detection, condition assessment, and rate support.
Advanced metering and sensor networks give utilities far more data than billing needs. The difference between a utility that uses it and one that does not is rarely the meters; it is whether there is a platform, a set of definitions, and someone accountable for acting on what the data shows.
What utility data looks like
- Interval consumption data from advanced metering infrastructure
- SCADA historian data from plants, pump stations, and substations
- Asset inventories and condition assessments, usually split between GIS and an asset management system
- Work orders and maintenance history
- Customer information and billing records, including service history and payment behavior
- Water loss and non-revenue water calculations assembled manually
Where HQT helps
- A time-series capable data platform that brings meter, sensor, asset, and work order data together
- Leak and anomaly detection using continuous-flow and district metering analysis, feeding work orders automatically
- Outage detection from meter last-gasp signals, integrated with outage management and customer notification
- Asset condition analytics that support capital improvement planning and rate cases
- Customer-facing usage portals and conservation program targeting and measurement
- Privacy controls for interval data, which reveals occupancy patterns and is treated as personal information in many jurisdictions
How an engagement usually starts
Often after a metering deployment, when the utility realizes the data is arriving and nothing downstream is using it, or during a rate study that needs evidence the current systems cannot produce.