Executive Summary
Faced with demographic growth, climate change, and increasing environmental challenges, water utilities require intelligent digital solutions to improve operational efficiency. ITTStar partnered with the customer to implement an Industrial IoT water management solution powered by AWS. By combining IoT connectivity, predictive analytics, and cloud-native technologies, the solution enables real-time monitoring, proactive maintenance, and improved productivity across water treatment operations.
Customer Challenge
Water utilities often struggle with manual operations, delayed issue detection, and inefficient asset management. AWS IoT for smart water management enables organizations to automate monitoring, identify equipment issues in real time, and optimize water treatment operations while reducing manual intervention and operational costs.
Partner Solution
ITTStar implemented predictive analytics for water treatment plants using AWS IoT, AWS Lambda, Amazon API Gateway, and Amazon DynamoDB. The serverless architecture continuously collects sensor data, applies predictive analytics, and enables proactive maintenance, improving operational efficiency, reducing downtime, and supporting intelligent decision-making across water treatment facilities.
Why AWS?
AWS provides the foundation for an IoT-based water plant monitoring solution, offering scalable cloud infrastructure, secure device connectivity, serverless computing, and real-time analytics. Services including AWS IoT Core, AWS Lambda, Amazon API Gateway, and Amazon DynamoDB enable intelligent monitoring, predictive maintenance, and enterprise-scale industrial IoT deployments.
Results & Benefits
This case study demonstrates how a serverless IoT analytics platform built on AWS enables water utilities to automate monitoring, detect anomalies in real time, optimize resource consumption, and improve operational efficiency. Organizations adopting cloud-native IoT analytics can reduce costs, improve sustainability, and modernize critical infrastructure.
About the Customer
The customer is a utility company which operates largely in water and waste management sectors. It is the largest private water provider worldwide with operations in 5 continents. Their mission is to supply the highest number of people with drinking water of high quality at a fair price.
They help industries solve their toughest water, wastewater and process challenges by designing and implementing innovative solutions that ensure environmental sustainability. They work with customers across all industries, including food & beverage, metals and mining, power, chemicals & pharma, oil & gas, pulp and paper amongst others.