Our solution
We deliver fully outsourced Funded Data-as-a-Service (FDaaS) solutions built around reliable data, managed delivery and long-term performance. Our smart monitoring solutions support leakage detection, water balance management, event tracking and customer engagement, helping water companies improve visibility, act faster and maximise operational efficiency.
Our team works with water companies to shape smart water programmes from the outset, aligning programme design, funding, mobilisation and delivery around the outcomes each utility needs to achieve.
Through FDaaS-led delivery models, we can ease pressure on debt gearing ratios, spread programme costs over 15 to 20 years and reduce the financial and operational risk water companies carry directly.
We bring together more than 70 partners across water, energy, technology, communications, installation, data and customer operations.
That network allows us to build the right delivery ecosystem for each programme, while giving water companies one accountable partner across strategy, design and delivery.
Build a bespoke smart water programme that helps you identify leaks, manage demand and improve network visibility.
Our smart solutions are tested and validated to support robust connectivity and reliable data provision for
years (programme lifespan).
How we work
Smart water programmes involve multiple technologies, suppliers, communications networks and operational teams. Our role is to bring those moving parts together through a single prime-led delivery structure, ensuring programme design, funding, technology and operations work towards the same objectives. Drawing on proven delivery models from across the utility sector, we combine sector expertise, specialist partners and a flexible supply chain to help water companies move from programme ambition to operational reality – while improving efficiency, protecting performance and reducing delivery risk.
Our FDaaS models improve capital efficiency while giving water companies access to managed metering, reliable data and long-term programme support. By reducing the need to own and coordinate every component directly, this approach allows utilities to focus on their core role – delivering water, serving customers and meeting regulatory commitments.
Partnering with Horizon Water Infrastructure gives water companies a clearer way to manage complex smart asset rollouts. We coordinate suppliers, manage delivery risk and support performance outcomes across leakage, demand, customer service and environmental resilience.
Processes
Our team designs and manages end-to-end smart water programmes, from solution design, deployment to meter provisioning, network management, repair, maintenance, warranty support and funding. By coordinating water and utility partners through one delivery model, we reduce governance complexity and protect performance across the full programme lifespan.
Our funded delivery model can also transfer asset ownership and associated liability away from the water company, with cost recovery managed through FDaaS programme structure. This supports faster rollout, spreads cost across AMP cycles and improves the present value of expenditure.
Technology
Smart water infrastructure only delivers value when the data is trusted, accessible and actionable. Our technology ecosystem combines smart metering, connectivity and data services to give water companies greater visibility across their networks, supporting faster decisions, earlier intervention and more effective operational planning. Through our FDaaS approach, we help utilities move beyond asset deployment and focus on the long-term value of reliable data, turning network activity into actionable insight that supports operational, customer and environmental outcomes.
Where Horizon Water Infrastructure retains asset ownership, water companies can reduce exposure to technical debt, lifecycle risk and long-term interoperability challenges. Our FDaaS model supports real-time leak detection, clearer usage insight and more targeted customer engagement, helping utilities encourage behaviour change, reduce per capita consumption and improve long-term water efficiency.
FDaaS and FDaaS+
Funded Data-as-a-Service (FDaaS) gives water companies access to the funded infrastructure, metering capability and data services needed to move from rollout to operational value. It brings asset funding, delivery, connectivity and data access together, reducing technical debt while giving utilities trusted usage data through internet and cloud platforms.
FDaaS+ builds on this with advanced analytics, predictive maintenance and automated reporting. It helps water companies move from visibility to action – identifying leaks earlier, prioritising interventions and improving customer and operational outcomes.
Our finance
Smart water programmes need funding structures that support delivery, not sit separately from it. Through our FDaaS approach, we provide more than off-balance sheet funding – we align capital, asset ownership, supplier coordination and long-term performance support around your smart water programme.