Pourquoi
The water industry urgently needs to transition to the post-digital era to build its capacity to meet the challenge of increasing demand, environmental changes and resulting water scarcity.
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Reduce water utilities’ NRW below 15% by 2030. UtilitY85 produces real-time data to execute capital projectsion for better planning and alignment of capacities on future trends.
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Phygitalizing water systems and turning data into actionable knowledge content to deflect and counter upcoming water crises.
SOLUTIONS
La plate-forme de services UtilitY85 couvre l’ensemble du continuum production-distribution-commercialisation dans le secteur de l’eau. Sur chaque segment de la chaîne, il offre aux acteurs une solution conviviale permettant l’amélioration directe des performances, des interactions et des transactions dans la chaîne de valeur.
SERVICES
UtilitY85 va bien au-delà des données. Il crée un écosystème de connaissances fondé sur la confiance qui transforme la rentabilité et la durabilité des entreprises de services publics. Notre équipe dédiée s’efforce de vous aider (ainsi que le secteur de l’eau en général) à améliorer l’efficacité et la qualité du service pour tous.
Clients
Municipalities & Water Utility Companies.
UtilitY85 is a comprehensive phygital solution for your water management system, including a supervision cockpit for complete inventory mapping, and lean data analytics.
With a trained network of UtilitY85 ground agents, you will:Sustain revenue streams for investments into infrastructure
Increase residual and financial value by tightening the entire water value chain with end-to-end management
Deploy pperations based on a sustainable business model (scalable to any new community or addressable market)
Extract maximum value from the early use of preventative data, for cost-effective utility maintenance
Secure transactions with UtilitY85’s native mobile payment functionalities
Create jobs for youth, as UtilitY85 ground agents, weaving the fabric of your sustained business
Regulatory Boards
Mainstreaming UtilitY85 in your operations, you will:
Become a more potent market driver and catalyst for technology penetration
Enable more localized decisions to better target investments in digital water distribution
Achieve strategic foresight from live, granular data and analytics to orient market growth
Control the efficiency of regulation with predictive analytics and reporting
Ensure the best social return on investment from customer engagements
Testimony
The mWaterTM platform enables better asset management and service analysis. Impressive scaling has been achieved through balancing a focus on water service providers’ needs, with standardising reporting, implementing each component of the platform in a modular manner, and a public/private cost sharing business model for a financially sustainable service.
World Bank Bénin
Locations
Bénin
World Bank : 1.5 m peoples
City of Kinshasa
REGIDESO : 9.5 m peoples
Mali
UNICEF 415 900 peoples
Niger
World Bank : 246 900 peoples
Sénégal
SDE : 2.7 m peoples PEPAM /OFOR : 3.1 m peoples
Publications
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GSMA
mWater™ aims to improve rural and small town water pipe system (WPS) performance in Benin, and ultimately across Africa through the provision of (i) financial, (ii) business, and (iii) assistance mobile 2 web added value services to WPS operators.
Bill and Melinda gates foundation
In 2014, ONAS, the city’s water utility launched a SMS-Based service enabling households to call a customer service centre when their latrines need emptying. The system was developed by Manobi…
WorldBank
Public-Private Partnerships For Small Piped Water Scheme.
World Water Forum
Monitoring water supply systems using mobile internet technologies in Senegal world water forum Istanbul 16-22 march 2009
New York Times
Competition Designed to Spread Basic Technologies
BBC
Phone apps have become an unlikely tool in the effort to improve access to toilets and fresh water around the world.
The World Bank
Unlocking the Potential of Information Communications Technology to Improve Water and Sanitation Services
Partners
About Us
UtililY85 is built by MANOBI AFRICA, a pioneer in digital solutions for the agriculture, water and social development sectors in Africa. The company also invented the world’s first mobile phone based agricultural market information system used by smallholder farmers.
MANOBI-AFRICA is an integrative value chain orchestrator, catalyzing the transformation and securement of African agriculture through intelligent phygital ecosystems which honorably include smallholder farmers, and at the forefront of innovation in the development of efficient and sustainable water distribution services, improving utilities capacity to deliver quality water to millions of people. This legacy translates into multiple other solutions including location-based inventory services, surveying, digital trading services based on dematerialized payments and (geo)-tracking of transactions, streaming real-time data and metrics to customers on web and mobile. UtilitY85 builds on the highly successful mWaterTM, conveying the aim to cap non-revenue water to 15% thus optimally producing and distributing water to 85% globally.
Our Team
Daniel Annerose
CEO
Cédric Champenois
CTO
Nikki Hsian Lee
International Business & Project Development Manager
Jonathan Annerose
Lean Data Manager
Jacques Atohoun
Systems Manager
Amadou Sow
Software Engineer
Ahmed Ekoume
Call Center Engineer
Rodrigue Adechi
Project Manager Utility85
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