Case Study - Water Resource Monitoring

Managing water access fairly across more than 1,300 licence holders on active river systems requires more than periodic snapshots.

Without continuous telemetry, Melbourne Water had limited ability to monitor diversions in real time across the Yarra and lower Maribyrnong catchments. And licence holders – businesses and institutions each with legally defined extraction limits – had no direct visibility into their own consumption as it happened.

The result was a gap between what was being taken from the river and what anyone could actually see at any given moment. For a regulator responsible for fair allocation and licence compliance across two major Victorian waterways, that gap needed closing.

As part of Melbourne Water’s largest-ever connected metering program, Kallipr delivered the metering and telemetry systems that brought this network into real time.

Kallipr devices were connected to electromagnetic flow meters deployed across diversion sites, including Arad Octave, Bermad EuroMAG, Krohne Waterflux, and Siemens MAG8000 units, reading pulse outputs from each meter and transmitting diversion data continuously to the Kallipr Kloud platform.

The centrepiece for licence holders is Kloud Insights, a live dashboard giving each user direct, self-service visibility into their own diversion data. No waiting on reports. Just a clear, current picture of what’s been taken, updated automatically.

Each licence holder can now see:

• Latest daily consumption updated continuously
• Annual consumption to date tracked against their licence entitlement
• Latest meter read with timestamp
• Daily and annual consumption trends across 3, 7, or 30-day windows

Melbourne Water completed the rollout in early 2026, the largest connected metering project in the organisation’s history.

More than 1,300 licence holders now have real-time visibility into their own water use across the Yarra and lower Maribyrnong river systems.

For Melbourne Water, continuous telemetry means compliance monitoring is no longer dependent on periodic audits or self-reported data. The system provides an accurate, always-current record of what is being diverted across the catchment supporting fair allocation, better planning, and faster response when conditions change.

For licence holders, the data that used to arrive after the fact is now available the moment it’s collected.

“This investment is about managing water responsibly, for the long term and for every customer who relies on fair, consistent access. Real-time monitoring gives our customers and us a clearer, more accurate picture of water use across the region. That’s good for compliance, good for planning, and good for trust.”

— John Woodland, Head of Waterway & Catchment Services South East, Melbourne Water