The smart water utility market has shown impressive growth in the past year, as utilities begin to grow their smart metering deployments. According to figures from Homerider, a Veolia subsidiary, the proportion of connected meters leapt from 1% of 1.1bn in 2015, to 8% in 2016 – potentially setting the stage for significant LPWAN growth, if issues surrounding technologies and business models can be resolved. At LPWA 2017, Riot spoke to Bruno Hamamlian, Chief Sales and Marketing Officer at Homerider, the Veolia subsidiary and a leading provider of smart water solutions, to get his take on smart water metering and the available LPWAN technologies used to connect these meters to the cloud applications used to improve operational efficiency. Hamamlian reminded…