Sensus, a Xylem trademark, helps a wide range of public service providers, including utilities, cities, industrial complexes, and campuses, do more with their infrastructure to improve community quality of life. The business enables its clients to go farther by utilising technology and data-driven insights. As a consequence, efficiency and responsiveness improve. With innovation in sensing and communications technology, data analytics, and services, it collaborates with them to predict and adapt to changing business demands.
For more than a decade, utilities, cities, and universities have relied on Sensus to connect to ‘things’ in order to acquire the data they need when they need it in order to improve the quality of life in their communities. With our Sensus FlexNet® communication network—the industry’s quickest, most secure, and cost-effective solution—over 2,000 cities and municipalities have enabled more than 38 million smart devices for water, gas, electric, and street lighting applications.
Why Sensus?
Every city needs water and energy infrastructure, and improved management of these systems is the cornerstone for smart city IoT. Sensus’ smart networks connect residential and commercial metrology and sensors with the FlexNet® communication network, software, and services, whether you require AMI, AMR, CVR, or DR. It’s an unparalleled combination that enables clients to move beyond metering and into truly intelligent resource management and asset monetization.
The Internet of Things in smart cities begins with smart public infrastructure that provides clean water, consistent electricity, safe gas, and energy-efficient public lighting. Smart cities may invest in additional services to improve quality of life by freeing up resources by intelligently delivering key services through the Internet of Things. Sensus provides continual Internet of Things breakthroughs in communications capabilities, enhanced measurements and controls, and better analytics for decision-making to utilities, cities, and campuses. Sensus enables them to connect with hard-to-reach ‘things’ through the use of licenced radio spectrum and a superior network architecture, which is complemented by support for standard protocols and open interfaces. “In addition to FlexNet, we give customers more options with a comprehensive suite of regional network services, such as Sensus RF, cellular, direct/wired, or ZigBee,” the company says.
Customers and partners of Sensus may now create more diversified and powerful IoT applications using IoT gateways and an Application Creation Environment (ACE). “From smart gas to smart grid, smart water to smart lighting, smart cities, and beyond—nothing is out of reach when we work together.”
Enabling Promising Future
The quickest on-ramp to a connected city is smart lighting. The VantagePoint® Lighting Control system from Sensus, together with analytic tools for actionable data, will help you get started on your vision for a brighter, more connected city, which begins with FlexNet.
Big data is all around us, and Sensus’ analytic systems and sensors are helping to make existing smart cities smarter. The smart sensor bank consists of a collection of standard sensors installed on light poles that detect position (GPS), air quality, proximity to detect traffic/pedestrian movement, light level monitoring, moisture, temperature, and other variables. The options are endless, and measuring constituent needs is a fantastic approach to engage them.
Leadership
In March 2014, Patrick Decker was named President and Chief Executive Officer of Xylem, as well as a member of the company’s Board of Directors. Xylem is a prominent worldwide water technology company that helps clients in over 150 countries solve their most difficult water problems with creative solutions. Xylem has made many acquisitions under Mr. Decker’s leadership, which have combined increased the company’s portfolio of smart water infrastructure solutions and sophisticated data analytics capabilities used in water and essential energy services.
Mr. Decker has also supervised the company’s corporate responsibility effort, Xylem Watermark, to expand. Watermark now includes an ambitious employee volunteerism component that extends to all of Xylem’s roughly 17,000 workers, in addition to continuing to supply safe water supplies for many of the world’s most disadvantaged areas. Over a three-year period, the firm vowed to record 100,000 staff volunteer hours in water-related activities in Xylem communities across the world.
Mr. Decker came to Xylem after serving as President and CEO of Harsco Corporation, a worldwide industrial services firm, since 2012. He formerly held many executive positions at Tyco International, including President of Tyco Flow Control, where he dramatically increased sales in emerging countries and oversaw the company’s major acquisitions in Brazil and the Middle East.
Mr. Decker began his career with Bristol-Myers Squibb Company, where he held increasingly critical financial leadership positions, including nine years in Latin America and Asia. Price Waterhouse LLP was where he began his career.
Mr. Decker is a member of the Bipartisan Policy Center’s Executive Council on Infrastructure, the US Business Roundtable’s Infrastructure Committee, and the Dean of Indiana University’s Kelley School of Business’s Advisory Council. He graduated from Indiana University in Bloomington, Indiana, with a bachelor’s degree in accounting and finance.
