Freestyle Technology to provide South Korean city with smart water solutions
Australian IoT company Freestyle Technology (FST) will supply the South Korean Municipality of Gimje with a smart water IoT (Internet of Things) platform comprising smart meters, wireless communications, end to end visibility of all water assets, improved leak detection, and automated meter reading.
FST is an Australian innovator in Enterprise and Government that is focused on deploying IoT solutions in the essential services sector of water, gas and electricity networks.
“Complementing our overseas deployments, our Australian deployed innovations such as IoT-enabled microgrid to national grid orchestration using our patented IoT enabled distributed intelligence solution, provide complete automation, removing manual intervention or decision making. This drives energy savings and resource efficiencies,” FST managing director and CEO Mohan Jesudason says.
The Gimje rollout will involve an initial 2,300 homes and commenced in February 2018, with completion due in June of the same year.
“This shows Freestyle’s significant success in IoT-enablement of utility functions across Asia in competitive, advanced markets,” Mohan says.
FST currently services over 30,000 customers across Australia, Japan, Taiwan and Korea and processes over 20 million transactions monthly on its IoT platform.