Description

The Frost Radar™ on the European smart water metering solutions industry presents a competitive benchmarking of 18 leading providers of innovative solutions showcasing high customer value, significant value additions, and/or disruptive growth potential leveraging regional drivers or trends. The analysis evaluates the ability of these companies based on their revenue performance in the past 3 years, expansion through mergers and acquisitions (M&As) or strategic partnerships, or high organic growth enabled by the adoption of new or innovative technologies or solutions.

The smart water metering value chain considered for this Radar analysis includes smart water meters (hardware), low-power wide area network (LPWAN) solutions, head-end software and meter data management (MDM) solutions, data analytics (for leak detection, alarm and alerts monitoring and meter device management, and water network optimization), customer information systems (CIS), and customer engagement portal (CEP) solutions.

In a field of more than 50 smart water metering solutions players in Europe, this Frost Radar™ independently plotted 18 leading providers: Arad Group, Axioma, Badger Meter Europa, Birdz (Veolia), Diehl Metering, GWF, Honeywell Elster, Idrica, Itron, Kamstrup, Maddalena, Netmore, Sagemcom, Siemens, Suez Smart Metering Services, Vodafone, Xylem Sensus, and Zenner. Frost & Sullivan analyzes numerous companies in an industry. Those selected for further analysis based on their leadership or other distinctions are benchmarked across 10 Growth and Innovation criteria to reveal their position on the Frost Radar™. The publication presents competitive profiles of each company on the Frost Radar™, considering their strengths and the opportunities that best fit those strengths.