Customer
Alstahaug Municipality - water utility serving Sandnessjøen and surrounding rural areas on the Helgeland coast.
Norway · Coastal municipality
Early LoRaWAN. Still default.
Alstahaug Municipality - Sandnessjøen on the Helgeland coast - was one of Norway's earliest adopters of LoRaWAN water metering at municipal scale. The network has expanded across larger service areas year after year, and Honeywell V200 precision piston meters remain the default for new installs.
V200
Honeywell precision piston meters · LoRaWAN
Years
running and still expanding coverage
Rural + urban
single network covering both
At a glance
The shape of the rollout
A long-running LoRaWAN deployment across one of Norway's geographically dispersed municipalities.
Network
LoRaWAN - long-range, low-power radio for both town centres and rural households. Coverage expanded year after year.
Meters
Honeywell V200 precision piston water meters - accurate at low flow rates typical of single-family households.
Operations
Trained municipal staff act as in-house solution ambassadors - the platform is run, not just used.
The challenge
An early bet on LoRaWAN that had to pay off long-term.
Alstahaug took an early position on LoRaWAN water metering at a time when very few Norwegian municipalities had committed to the technology at scale. The geography alone - coastal, dispersed, mixed rural and urban - rules out one-size-fits-all metering. A solution that worked in year one needed to keep working in years five and ten, with the same network, the same operations team and an expanding meter base.
The brief: pick precision meters that hold up at low flow rates typical of single-family households, sit them on a network that covers both Sandnessjøen and rural surroundings, and give the municipality a clear view of every connected device and every coverage gap.
- Geographically dispersed - mixed rural and urban households
- Low-flow accuracy critical for fair single-family billing
- Long-term reliability over years, not pilot quarters
- Network coverage needed to expand without re-architecting
What we built
Precision meters on a network that keeps growing.
Honeywell V200 precision piston meters provide the low-flow accuracy single-family households need. LoRaWAN handles the radio - long range, low power, gateway placement that adapts as coverage expands. Divako handles everything between: provisioning, payload parsing, validation, alarms, exports.
The municipality's own team operates the network. RSSI, packet loss and coverage gaps surface as platform alerts, not as field complaints. New installs go onto the same pipeline as the originals; no parallel system to maintain.
- Honeywell V200 precision piston meters - low-flow accurate
- LoRaWAN coverage that expanded year after year
- Full visibility of connected meters and coverage gaps
- In-house ambassadors operating the platform day-to-day
- One pipeline from meter to billing - originals and new installs alike
Outcomes
What the long view looks like
Still the default
LoRaWAN with Honeywell V200 meters remains the municipality's default choice for new installations - the original bet paid off.
Coverage that grew with them
The LoRaWAN footprint expanded year after year - same platform, same operations team, no migration projects.
Total fleet visibility
Every connected meter and every coverage gap surfaces on one dashboard - no guessing whether a quiet meter is healthy or offline.
In-house ambassadors
The municipality runs the platform itself. The team built up enough depth to onboard new installs, debug coverage and lead from the inside.
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Your rollout
Built to outlast the pilot.
If your municipality is rolling out smart water metering, talk to us before you commit to a single-protocol bet.