Anglian Water’s Journey to Digitalization

In this episode we travel to Peterborough to interview Andy Smith, Head of Smart Water at Anglian Water, and Matt Hughes, Smart System Strategy Manager at Anglian Water, to learn about the water utility’s experience in becoming smart.

The UK is known as one of the most advanced countries in the world regarding digital water solutions. The success goes hand in hand with regulations from authority Ofwat, which sets targets for the water companies, industry collaborations and the creation of hubs for innovation. Anglian Water is one of the UK’s water utilities leading this sector’s digital transformation. To find out what it means to be one of the most digitized water utilities and how it happened, we discuss with the utility their smart projects, where they started, what they are focusing on as well as analyze why Anglian Water and the UK’s water digitalization is so advanced.