The Global Water Metering Landscape: Technology Shifts, Competitive Strategies and Market Outlook

Metering firms are frequently viewed as the springboard for a water utility's digital water journey, bridging communications between a water utility and its customer. Smart meters function as a cash register, enabling customer service and reducing customer disputes, and serving as a water conservation tool through consumption analysis. Utility meter adoption contributed to a meter stock estimate of 728 million meters in 2021, globally, with a projected spend of US$107 million over a 10-year period (2021-2030).

Adjusting to a motley of utility and geographic capabilities such as utility size breakdowns and adoption considerations, metering manufacturers are expanding their offerings across hardware, software, services, and connectivity solutions, competing with the growing sphere of telecoms, private equity firms, software, and service providers.

This analysis pulls from Bluefield's proprietary meter implementation projects, M&A, VC databases, primary research, market analysis, and global digital water forecast. Encompassing four digital water product types-hardware, software, services, connectivity-this Insight Report evaluates the strategies of leading global metering firms with a focus on digital water portfolios and capabilities, market entry strategies, market positions, and geographic footprints, to better understand these firms' unique position in an accelerating global digital water market.

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