Delivering Water to Urban HomesThrough Smart Metering and Mobile Payments – CityTaps
Summary
In 2017, the GSMA Mobile for Development Utilities program awarded CityTaps a grant to scale their prepaid water service platform to enable the urban poor to access affordable and safe running water at home. Their prepaid smart meter incorporates machine to machine (M2M) technology, which allows households to make micro-prepayments for their water at any time using mobile money. CityTaps is working in partnership with Orange Niger and the SEEN (Niger Water Utility Company) to trial 1,325 meters across Niamey, Niger.
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