Régie des Eaux Remote Water Meter Reading
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Montpellier took drinking water back in-house on 1 January 2016 after 25 years of delegation to Veolia, and added sanitation on 1 January 2023. Since 2024 the public Régie des eaux has been fitting transmitter heads to its customers' meters on a published commune-by-commune calendar running to the end of 2027 — Sussargues first, five communes in 2025, six in 2026, two in 2027, with Montpellier itself equipped progressively — covering 14 communes and about 86,000 subscribers. Customers get a personal portal showing daily consumption, bills on measured rather than estimated use, and overconsumption alerts they set themselves. The heads report twice a day, a cadence chosen for a roughly ten-year battery life.
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Two readings a day is a design choice, not a limitation, and it is the one worth noticing: it is enough to catch a continuous leak but far too coarse to reconstruct when a household showers or leaves for holiday, and the régie pairs it with a CNIL registration and an explicit GDPR statement. What is missing is the number that would let anyone judge the programme: three years into a four-year rollout, the régie publishes the schedule and the target but not how many meters are actually transmitting, and no leak-reduction or non-revenue-water figure has been published either.
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1001 Smart Cities (2026). “Régie des Eaux Remote Water Meter Reading” — Montpellier, France. The Smart City Atlas. https://1001smartcities.org/projects/montpellier-telereleve-eau/ (last verified 2026-08-10). Data: CC BY 4.0.
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