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LoRaWAN Pressure and Level Sensors for Water Networks (UK)
See every leak, level and valve across the network
The short answer
What does a LoRaWAN pipe pressure sensor cost?
A Milesight EM500-PP pipe pressure sensor is £197.52 ex VAT and runs several years on its own battery, so a DMA boundary needs no power or comms install. Submersible level is £251.38 and radar level £224.45. A gateway plus level sensor kit is £360.62.
Water networks lose treated water and response time to faults nobody sees until they surface. Chambers, wells and pressure points sit miles apart with no power and patchy signal, so teams drive to read them or wait for a customer to call. The cost is non-revenue water, reactive callouts and assets that fail without warning.
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The difference
LoRaWAN pressure sensor: what changes the day it goes live
Water networks lose treated water and response time to faults nobody sees until they surface. Chambers, wells and pressure points sit miles apart with no power and patchy signal, so teams drive to read them or wait for a customer to call. The cost is non-revenue water, reactive callouts and assets that fail without warning.
- Continuous level, pressure and leak readings from assets that were previously visited by van
- Alerts before an overflow or burst, not after a customer reports it
- Remote valve actuation so a response does not always need a crew on site
- One telemetry estate spanning LoRaWAN, cellular and satellite fall-back for the truly remote points
What you get
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Continuous level, pressure and leak readings from assets that were previously visited by van
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Alerts before an overflow or burst, not after a customer reports it
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Remote valve actuation so a response does not always need a crew on site
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One telemetry estate spanning LoRaWAN, cellular and satellite fall-back for the truly remote points
The full stack, applied here
One pressure transient, from chamber to closed valve
Every Indiott build runs all five layers as one accountable system. Follow a single pressure transient from the sensor that catches it to the report that proves it.
AquaIoT submersible level, pressure and leak sensors sit on chambers, wells and rising mains, reading the assets a van used to visit, minute-by-minute with no mains.
Hands a live reading to CONNECT ↓
LoRaWAN carries dense urban chambers, cellular reaches isolated pressure points and satellite NTN backhauls the truly remote assets, so the far edge reports like the plant room.
Hands a routed packet to SECURE ↓
A VPN router and managed segmentation isolate the telemetry estate, so leakage and pressure data crosses the public network encrypted and the control path stays in IEC 62443 zones.
Hands a trusted stream to CONTROL ↓
When response cannot wait for a crew, Remote IO and AquaIoT valve actuators close a valve, throttle a PRV or start dosing remotely, so a burst is contained as it is seen.
Hands an action and proof to MANAGE ↓
A live network map with pressure trends, burst and overflow alarms and non-revenue-water reporting, on the AquaIoT dashboard or pushed into your existing SCADA over standard protocols.
The loop is closed ✓
How teams start
From a single pilot to the whole portfolio
You do not boil the ocean. Nearly every rollout runs the same four moves, and you own a working, evidenced result at the end of the first one.
Scope & risk map
We walk the sites, list the assets and pin the one constraint that matters, then agree what a good result looks like before a single sensor is bought.
Pilot on one site
A focused set of sensors goes onto one site or asset group, live on our telemetry and dashboards, wired to the people who need the alert.
Validate & standardise
We tune thresholds, kill false positives, confirm the integration into your SCADA, BMS or CAFM, and write the standard design down so it repeats.
Scale the portfolio
The proven design rolls out across the estate, reusing the same hardware standards and data models so every site reads the same way.
The LoRaWAN pressure sensor kit we deploy
Full catalogue
Milesight EM500-PP Pipe Pressure Sensor
£197.52 ex VAT
Milesight EM410-RDL Radar Distance/Level Sensor
£224.45 ex VAT
Milesight EM500-SWL Submersible Water Level Sensor
£251.38 ex VAT
Milesight EM411-RDL Radar Distance/Level Sensor
£314.23 ex VAT
Milesight Water & Leak Monitoring Kit — Gateway + Level + Leak Sensors
£360.62 ex VAT
AquaIoT Clamp-on Ultrasonic Flow Meter
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AquaIoT NOAH Multifunction Leak Sensor
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SpecSens SPS-Cl Chlorine Sensor
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LoRaWAN pressure sensor costs between £197.52 and £360.62 ex VAT in the UK. Indiott published prices, September 2026. Delivery is charged by weight; VAT is added at checkout.
| Model | Key specification | Price ex VAT | Availability |
|---|---|---|---|
| Milesight EM500-PP Pipe Pressure Sensor EM500-PP-868M | Pressure measuring range: 0 - 1600 kPa (16 Bar), vented gauge | £197.52 ex VAT (£237.02 inc. VAT) | In stock, UK · dispatched within 14 working days |
| Milesight EM410-RDL Radar Distance/Level Sensor EM410-RDL | Radar detection distance: 0.3 m ~ 12 m | Price range: £224.45 through £254.38 ex VAT (£269.34 – £305.26 inc. VAT) | In stock, UK · dispatched within 14 working days |
| Milesight EM500-SWL Submersible Water Level Sensor EM500-SWL-868M | Measuring range: 0 ~ 3 m / 5 m / 10 m (customizable up to 200 m) | Price range: £251.38 through £272.33 ex VAT (£301.66 – £326.80 inc. VAT) | In stock, UK · dispatched within 14 working days |
| Milesight EM411-RDL Radar Distance/Level Sensor EM411-RDL | Ingress Protection / Hazardous-area approval: IP68 (1m underwater, 48 hours) + ATEX Zone 0, Ex ia IIC T4 Ga — EM411-RDL only | Price range: £314.23 through £321.71 ex VAT (£377.08 – £386.05 inc. VAT) | In stock, UK · dispatched within 14 working days |
| Milesight Water & Leak Monitoring Kit — Gateway + Level + Leak Sensors KIT-WATER-LEAK | — | £360.62 ex VAT (£432.74 inc. VAT) | In stock, UK · dispatched within 14 working days |
| AquaIoT Clamp-on Ultrasonic Flow Meter | — | Price on request | Quote only |
| AquaIoT NOAH Multifunction Leak Sensor NOAH | — | Price on request | Quote only |
| SpecSens SPS-Cl Chlorine Sensor SPS-Cl | — | Price on request | Quote only |
Why Indiott
A specialist stack, not a box-shifter
Brand-agnostic by design
We pick the best of each brand for the layer and the environment, not one vendor catalogue. Milesight, AquaIoT, Atop, Browan, SpecSens and Urban.io, chosen on merit.
The whole stack, one supplier
Sensing, connectivity, OT security, control and the dashboard come from one accountable team, so there is no finger-pointing when something needs to talk to something else.
Specified and supported in Britain
UK-based engineers scope the site, quote the kit and stand behind it, with compliance mapped to the regimes your auditors actually cite.
Honest kit, honest pricing
Prices are shown where we can, quoted fast where we cannot, and you get a straight answer and a bill of materials within one working day.
DEPLOYED IN THE FIELD
Compliance this answers to
| Standard | What it requires |
|---|---|
| DWI and regulatory leakage targets | continuous monitoring supports non-revenue water reduction reporting |
| DSEAR and ATEX where chambers or rising mains carry explosive atmosphere risk | hazardous-area sensing on request |
| EU868 LoRaWAN, the correct UK and European frequency plan for licence-exempt deployment | |
What it costs, roughly
An indicative pilot of 25 monitored chambers might combine submersible level sensors, a small number of outdoor gateways and a year of dashboards. As a rough order of magnitude that is low thousands of pounds in hardware, not tens of thousands, with the saving driven by avoided tanker callouts and earlier burst detection. Exact figures come back on your asset list within one working day.
Frequently asked questions
How do LoRaWAN leak and burst sensors detect a problem?
A burst shows as a sudden pressure drop or a step change in flow or reservoir level. Battery LoRaWAN sensors such as the EM500-PP pipe pressure sensor (£197.52 ex VAT) and EM500-SWL submersible level sensor (£251.38) sample on a fixed interval and raise an alarm the moment a threshold is crossed, so the control room sees the event in minutes rather than waiting for a customer report.
What is a DMA and why meter it?
A DMA, or district metered area, is a hydraulically discrete zone of the network, typically 500 to 3,000 properties, isolated by closed valves and fed through one or two metered inlets. Metering inflow and watching the minimum night flow lets you calculate non-revenue water for that zone and find leaks faster, because a rising night flow points to a new leak inside a known boundary.
How long do the sensor batteries last?
The Milesight EM500 series runs on replaceable lithium batteries rated for up to 10 years, depending on how often the sensor reports. Longer intervals, for example hourly rather than every few minutes, extend battery life, while frequent reporting or extreme cold shortens it. Because the cells are user-replaceable there is no need to swap the whole sensor when they run down.
Can this integrate with our existing SCADA or telemetry?
Yes. A LoRaWAN gateway such as the UG65 (£279.82 ex VAT) or outdoor UG67 (£658.39) forwards readings north over MQTT or HTTP to your platform, and Milesight UC controllers and UR routers add Modbus TCP for SCADA and RTU polling. Data lands in your existing telemetry, historian or GIS rather than a separate portal, so operators keep one pane of glass.
What accuracy can I expect from the level and pressure sensors?
It depends on the sensor and range. The EM500-SWL submersible level sensor measures hydrostatic level to roughly 0.1% of full scale, with variants from 5 m up to 100 m. The EM500-UDL ultrasonic sensor (£202.01 ex VAT) resolves distance to about a centimetre in wet wells and chambers. Where foam, debris or condensation defeat contact probes, 80 GHz radar sensors like the EM410-RDL give reliable non-contact level.
Do I need my own LoRaWAN network to run this?
Usually yes, and it is straightforward. One private LoRaWAN gateway covers a site or several kilometres of open network, so most utilities self-host rather than depend on public coverage. A semi-industrial UG65 gateway is £279.82 ex VAT and the outdoor, IP67-rated UG67 is £658.39. The bundled Water and Leak Monitoring Kit (£360.62) pairs a gateway with level and leak sensors to start a single DMA.
Related
Buying this in the UK
- LoRaWAN pressure sensors from £197.52 ex VAT; submersible level from £251.38.
- Supplied by Indiott, a trading name of PSI Technologies Limited (Companies House 03689664, VAT GB 730 2340 83), Hampshire, United Kingdom.
- Every price is published ex VAT at indiott.com — no quote needed to see it.
- Typically dispatched within 14 working days from the UK, on a VAT invoice.
- Call 023 9223 3611 or request a quote.
Next step
Scope it with an engineer.
Tell us the site, the assets and the constraint. You get a bill of materials and a straight answer within one working day.
- A bill of materials sized to your site
- Priced ex VAT, UK entity, no login wall
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