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Monitor Your Hydraulic Infrastructure,
Even in Remote Areas

Discover how satellite IoT can enhance the monitoring, security, and performance of your hydraulic infrastructure, even in white zones.

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At a Glance

Challenge

Isolated hydraulic infrastructure: no network, no data. Undetected leaks, manual inspections, blind decisions.

Solutions

Satellite IoT enables monitoring without ground gateways. Sensors transmit data directly, even from remote sites.

Impacts

Fewer field interventions, up to 30% water loss prevented, optimized management, and targeted maintenance.

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Challenge

Monitoring hydraulic infrastructure in remote areas remains a daily headache.

Mountain reservoirs, buried pipelines, and forest pumping stations: these assets are essential but often invisible. Without a network, there is no data. And without data, there are no alerts. The result? Undetected leaks, costly manual inspections, and decisions made in the dark.

Why is monitoring hydraulic infrastructure still an operational blind spot?

Because these facilities are often out of reach of traditional networks. Their monitoring still relies on manual, time-consuming, and imprecise inspections. The result: anomalies go unnoticed, interventions are too late, and maintenance consumes more resources than it prevents.

Costly and untargeted inspections

A single site visit can cost up to €1,000. And in many cases, there’s nothing to report. The result? Wasted time, teams exposed in no-network zones, and budgets drained by logistics rather than prevention.

Without remote detection systems, leaks are discovered late—overflows, pollution, abnormal pressure. Interventions become reactive rather than proactive.

Invisible but massive water losses

Up to 30% of water can be lost in some areas due to undetected leaks. Globally, these losses amount to 126 billion cubic meters per year, equivalent to $39 billion. Behind these figures lie wasted resources, damaged infrastructure, and increasing pressure on budgets.

Lack of connectivity in critical areas

Many infrastructures are located where terrestrial networks don’t reach—forests, mountains, rural areas. This lack of coverage blocks traditional IoT, prevents alert transmission, and makes remote management impossible. Even long-range radio or cellular solutions fail in these environments.

Undetected losses

Up to 30% water loss in some areas due to leaks not detected in time. Globally, this represents 126 billion m³ of water lost annually—equivalent to $39 billion in losses.

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Increased intervention costs

Up to €1,000 per visit to inspect a remote reservoir or pipeline, with no guarantee of detecting anomalies. These costs add up to delays and team mobilization, often for nothing.

Lack of Connectivity

Less than 15% of the globe is covered by terrestrial networks (cellular, radio), leaving many critical areas without connectivity.

In forested, mountainous, or rural areas, sensors cannot transmit data continuously.
Result: no alerts, no data, no management.

Solutions

Monitor Your Hydraulic Infrastructure, Even Without a Network, Thanks to Satellite IoT

With Kinéis, water network monitoring becomes possible anywhere. No need to wait for an inspection or deploy relays: critical data is transmitted directly via satellite, from any site.
Autonomous Monitoring, Even Off-Grid

Sensors installed on reservoirs, pipelines, or isolated stations send:

Pressure, flow, level, or temperature data—to detect anomalies early.
Alerts when thresholds are exceeded.
Geolocated coordinates to target intervention zones.
Data that can be integrated into your business tools (via cloud platform).

Every critical site can now be monitored remotely, without antennas or cables.

Seamless satellite connectivity

Direct data transmission, without cellular relays or ground gateways.

Automatic incident alerts

Sensors trigger alerts as soon as a threshold (pressure, flow, level) is crossed.

Secure and accessible data

Encrypted data sent to the cloud platform and integrated into your business tools.

Facilitated predictive maintenance

Leaks detected earlier, anomalies identified without physical inspection.

Impacts

Immediate benefits for your remote networks

Less Loss, less fieldwork, more impact

Sensors detect anomalies as soon as they appear. Teams know where, when, and how to intervene. No more wasted trips: every intervention is useful and cost-effective. Result: less water loss, fewer risks, and up to 30% operational savings.

Predictive maintenance

Alerts are triggered as soon as thresholds are exceeded. No need for multiple inspections: teams intervene at the right time, with the right tools. Less risk, more efficiency.