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PortugueseWhile the initial focus has been smart water metering, local authorities are using the same IoT backbone to support a growing list of connected services, such as parking availability systems, public lighting controls, soil-moisture monitors, energy management tools, and emergency alert devices in schools and nursing homes.
By Shula Rosen
The Arad Group reported this week that more than 1 million of its LoRa-based water meters and sensors are now operating across Israel, marking one of the largest deployments of the technology in a single country. The company said the network, built over the past three years, is already enabling large-scale smart city applications in dozens of municipalities.
The national system stretches through major population centers, including Tel Aviv, Haifa, Ashdod, Modi’in, and Nesher.
While the initial focus has been smart water metering, local authorities are using the same IoT backbone to support a growing list of connected services, such as parking availability systems, public lighting controls, soil-moisture monitors, energy management tools, and emergency alert devices in schools and nursing homes.
LoRa technology is a widely used communications standard for low-power devices. Research firm Omdia projects that global LoRaWAN connections will exceed 3.5 billion by the end of the decade, representing rapid expansion of long-range, battery-efficient IoT products. Arad emphasized that Israel’s nationwide deployment puts the country well ahead of regions where adoption is still progressing gradually.
Arad Measurement Technologies, the group’s development arm, employs more than 100 engineers working across hardware, firmware, hydraulics, software, and mechanical design.
The company says its metering systems integrate advanced communications and hydraulic-mechanical innovations, with management platforms running as cloud-based enterprise software for millions of users worldwide. Arad products are sold through subsidiaries in more than 50 countries to residential, agricultural, and municipal water providers.
Regev Yanai, who oversees LoRaWAN sales and marketing for Arad in Israel, said the smart meter rollout is only an early stage of what the network can support. “Water meters are only the beginning,” he told The Jerusalem Post. “Once a city has a LoRa network – municipal and nationwide – almost anything can be connected. Israel is shifting from an innovation test bed into a global leader in large-scale smart city deployment.”
Arad noted that environmental and transportation applications are already demonstrating the system’s benefits.
Cities using LoRa-enabled air quality sensors can provide real-time pollution data to residents, while smart parking platforms help reduce search times for available spaces. International studies cited by the company suggest these systems can cut average parking search time by roughly 30 percent, lowering congestion, fuel waste, and emissions.
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