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Monitoring for Compliance

A Basin Scale Solution

October 2019

Murray Darling Association AGM

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

COMMUNICATIONS SENSORS 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.

Current NSW monitoring approach

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

Taggle’s Basin wide approach

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