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Grundfos Partners with TaKaDu
A partnership between Grundfos and TaKaDu
is set to ramp up the companies” capabilities
within digital water management systems.
The collaboration will combine Grundfos”
technological expertise and experience with
TaKaDu”s analytical event management
solutions to transform raw data into end-
customer value.
“Being a global leader in our segment, we have
worked with connected solutions for quite a
while, and we have got the experience and
technological capability to offer monitoring
services to our customers. However, the
partnership with TaKaDu accelerates our
efforts in the digitalisation journey, and allows
us to speed up the process of providing our
customers with best-in-class, data driven
solutions,” said Kenth Hvid Nielsen, Group Vice
President, Global Water Utility, Grundfos.
The two companies are already in the process
of exploring the partnership opportunities
by running a joint pilot at Frederikshavn
Forsyning, a Danish water utility company.
Here the high-tech solutions are employed and
tested in a “live” environment.
“We are very excited to partner with Grundfos
in the global water market, and expand our
comprehensive event management solution
to new dimensions of data, related to energy
and network operations. Data analytics
yields a wide spectrum of benefits, and we
are confident that this partnership will boost
efficiency of both water and energy,” said Amir
Peleg, TaKaDu”s Founder and CEO.
Using data analytics in water utilities helps
optimise operations and decision making
with real-time information about events, such
as leakages or assets failures, including the
time it started, magnitude, location, etc. This
helps utilities detect any incident at an early
stage, increasing visibility, and making it easier
to reduce water loss and improve customer
service.
Future digital offerings leveraged by this
partnership can help water utilities on a global
scale to fulfil new operational targets for saving
energy and water, as well as managing water
network assets in the most economical way.
Water Leaders • June 2017
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