Case Study: Profit From Installing Wireless Networks For Utilities

Mandate-driven technology installations are an upward trend in the utility vertical. One example of an EPA (environmental protection agency) mandate that requires utility companies to make changes concerns the elimination of discharges from combined sewer overflows (CSOs). In fact, a requirement of this mandate is for a utility to provide real-time updates (aka public notifications) to a public utility Web site regarding CSO levels in a geographic region. A CSO is a discharge of waste or untreated storm water from a water sewage plant into the environment. An overflow typically occurs during heavy rainfall, when the excess wastewater is sometimes bypassed directly to surface water bodies via flow diversion structures (e.g. canals leading to nearby rivers). The mandate improves the general safety of the public in regard to water conditions. Used with permission from Business Solutions magazine