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Monitoring for Compliance Murray Darling A Basin Scale Solution Association AGM October 2019

Current compliance monitoring approach • Fragmented – no consistent approach • Puts onus on irrigators & farmers • Huge up front & ongoing costs • Mandates old, expensive technology • Nothing in it for farmers & local communities • Resistance and resentment among stakeholders

A better solution for all • Basin-wide approach • Provides full compliance solution • Telemetry • Installation • Maintenance • Additional benefits for rural & urban communities, farmers & irrigators, researchers

Sensor to Software Solution SENSORS COMMUNICATIONS DATA PROCESSING APPLICATIONS MONITORING

How it works • Expand existing low cost radio network to cover all 14,400 irrigators in Basin • Low cost telemetry transmitters connect to approved meters • Transmit usage data to regulators and to irrigators/users • Network available for many other uses • Pump run time • Leak detection • Water efficiency • Rainfall, bore water, etc. • Soil moisture, flow, depth, etc.

Taggle’s Basin wide approach Current NSW monitoring approach ✓ Total cost to irrigators > $250 million ✓ Total cost less than $30 million ✓ Limited mobile coverage in Basin ✓ Already in use in much of Basin ✓ Satellites needed in much of Basin ✓ Easy, quick & cheap to expand to entire Basin ✓ Very high ongoing costs ✓ Minimal ongoing costs ✓ Irrigators responsible for management ✓ Fully managed solution ✓ Untried technology in harsh environment ✓ Designed, tried & tested in and for Australia ✓ Old technology with limited life ✓ Fifteen year plus battery life ✓ All pain no gain for irrigators ✓ Comprehensive data available for irrigators ✓ No benefits for communities, councils ✓ Can be used by Councils and Communities ✓ No open availability of data ✓ Total transparency

Taggle can implement a Basin-wide meter monitoring system that provides near real-time data to a centralised regulator and to the irrigators. The technology is owned by Taggle and installed by Taggle Proven in use by: - 15+ councils in the Murray Darling Basin - 34 councils in Australia - farmers, researchers, industry, developers - adopted by Fortune 100 company for their Smart Meters

Taggle has a Basin-wide solution We need partners to make it happen

Supporting Information

Benefits • Dramatically less expensive • Up front cost less than 5% of current approach • Ongoing costs less than $20 per year per meter. • Single, consistent trusted body • Rapid implementation • Available for many other uses • Makes entire Basin transparent • Restores trust • Saves water

Roll out costs & logistics • One receiver costs $10,000: • Covers over 1,000 sq km • Handles up to 30,000 transmitters with hourly transmissions • Can be installed in one day • Compared to $750,000+ for a mobile phone tower • Transmitter on approved meter • Costs less than $150 • Transmission costs less than $20 pa • Battery life 10-20 years • Tested in harsh and remote environments • No need for data logger • No need for power at meter

Current Situation • Network covers 25 Basin councils directly or via GWM, Goldenfields • Southern Regional Water using system for compliance (bore water extraction) • Over 160,000+ Taggle Smart Meters active in Australia • Close to 2 billion meter reads a year • Used by farmers, councils, irrigators water utilities, researchers, etc.

Existing Coverage • • Telstra Coverage Map Taggle Coverage Map (Receiver locations) • • Difficult & expensive to expand the network Easy & inexpensive to expand network to cover basin