- The largest LoRa® connected-object
deployment in France
Fully dedicated to developing innovative and largely digital
services, Nova Veolia and its subsidiary Birdz, a pioneer in the
remote metering of energy consumption for Smart Cities, have chosen
Orange Business Services to help them digitalize Veolia’s
water-related services in France. Their goal is to read more than
70% of their meters remotely by 2027.
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Nova Veolia and Birdz have chosen the
Orange LoRa® network to connect over 3 million intelligent water
meters over the next 10 years. Left to right: Xavier Mathieu
(Birdz), Helmut Reisinger (Orange Business Services) and Frédéric
Van Heems (Veolia). Source: Orange.
Over 3 million water meters will be connected to Orange’s
LoRa® network in FranceVeolia’s IoT expert Birdz collects
millions of data items daily via its intelligent water meters to
help its clients (local communities, manufacturers, third parties
and retail customers) reduce their energy bills and improve their
services. The Birdz solutions allow customers to visualize and
predict their consumption and detect atypical consumption (e.g.:
water leaks) and instances of fraud.
Following a 12-month trial period in Toulouse, Birdz has chosen
the Orange LoRa® network, an innovative and sustainable technology
with high-quality service, to connect over 3 million intelligent
water meters in France over the next 10 years. The LoRa® network,
which is an industry standard and has been deployed by many
operators worldwide, will allow Birdz to focus on their core
business and develop new services.
The Orange LoRa® network covers over 30,000 municipalities and
95% of the population of Metropolitan France. This low-frequency
radio network for connected objects consumes little energy and is
affordable. Easy to deploy, it is ideal for intelligent meters,
which are often located in hard-to-access environments, such as
building basements or within meter access hatches.
Beyond connectivity, Birdz will also rely on Live Objects, the
object and data management platform of Orange Business Services, to
collect the mass of information from the meters.
A common goal: Make IoT available to cities, communities and
citizensVeolia, Birdz and Orange Business Services share a
common ambition to promote the development of connected and
intelligent services to optimize the management and consumption of
resources and energy in cities.
Frédéric Van Heems, CEO of Veolia Water France, stated: “This
project with Orange Business Services illustrates Veolia’s goal to
digitalize our businesses and services. It is a true growth driver
that will allow us to optimize our methods and performance, and
also to propose new services to our customers, in line with their
expectations for efficiency, interoperability, and
transparency.”
Xavier Mathieu, CEO of Birdz, added: “Birdz has chosen Orange
Business Services to help it make a strategic shift from a
technology requiring deployment of a radio network infrastructure
to a solution that is open, interoperable and reversible and also a
solution which meets the needs of our customers.”
With more than 2,000 IoT and data experts, 1,300 cybersecurity
experts and teams throughout France, Orange Business Services is
close to local communities. It is aware of their energy needs,
consumption and their challenges. This makes Orange Business
Services the first trusted partner.
Helmut Reisinger, CEO of Orange Business Services, added: “We
are proud to help Veolia and Birdz with this major project. Orange
Business Services provides many companies with support on projects
regarding IoT, data collection, transport, storage, and analysis,
guaranteeing a high level of security. Our multi-technology
strategy, which includes LoRa®, 2G/3G/4G, and LTE-M, allows us to
meet each sector’s specific needs. Already a leader in France, our
goal is to become the IoT leader in Europe, and more broadly, to
strengthen our position as an operator-integrator worldwide.”
About Orange Business ServicesOrange Business Services,
the B2B branch of the Orange Group, and its 25,000 employees, is
focused on supporting the digital transformation of multinational
enterprises and French SMEs across five continents. Orange Business
Services is not only an infrastructure operator, but also a
technology integrator and a value-added service provider. It offers
companies digital solutions that help foster collaboration within
their teams (collaborative workspaces and mobile workspaces),
better serve their customers (enriched customer relations and
business innovation), and support their projects (enriched
connectivity, flexible IT and cyberdefense). The integrated
technologies that Orange Business Services offer range from
Software Defined Networks (SDN/NFV), Big Data and IoT, to cloud
computing, unified communications and collaboration, as well as
cybersecurity. Orange Business Services customers include over
3,000 renowned multinational corporations at an international level
and over two million professionals, companies and local communities
in France.
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Orange is one of the world’s leading telecommunications
operators with annual sales of 41 billion euros in 2017 and has 261
million customers in 28 countries at 30 September 2018. Orange is
listed on Euronext Paris (symbol ORA) and on the New York Stock
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About BirdzBorn from the merger of Homerider Systems and
m2ocity and a wholly-owned subsidiary of Nova Veolia, Birdz, a
pioneer in remote water meter reading, deploys its unique know-how
at the service of the Smart City. A major player in IoT in France,
Birdz offers a very large ecosystem of solutions to manage the
city's utilities and preserve the quality of the urban environment:
water, energies, temperature, pollution, noise, ... and control the
entire value chain, from sensor design to the useful valuation of
millions of data collected. www.birdz.com
About VeoliaVeolia group is the global leader in
optimized resource management. With nearly 169,000 employees
worldwide, the Group designs and provides water, waste and energy
management solutions that contribute to the sustainable development
of communities and industries. Through its three complementary
business activities, Veolia helps to develop access to resources,
to preserve available resources, and to replenish them.In 2017, the
Veolia group supplied 96 million people with drinking water and 62
million people with wastewater service, produced nearly 55 million
megawatt hours of energy and converted 47 million metric tons of
waste into new materials and energy. Veolia Environnement (listed
on Paris Euronext: VIE) recorded consolidated revenue of €25.12
billion in 2017 (USD 30.1 billion). www.veolia.com
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Press:Birdz :Jimmy Rosmade, +33 1 41 45 86
07jimmy.rosmade@birdz.com
Orange Business Services :Elizabeth Mayeri, +1 212 251
2086elizabeth.mayeri@orange.com
Caroline Cellier, +33 1 55 54 50
34caroline.cellier@orange.com
Veolia :Camille Maire/Stéphane Galfré, +33 1 85 57 33
17camille.maire@veolia.com
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