British utility Anglian Water has awarded a cloud contract for sewer monitoring services.

According to the notice of award, Anglian Water contracted with three suppliers for £140 million ($190m) on September 9: Environmental telemetry companies Metasphere and Udlive, and battery-powered measuring device company Technolog.

This will see the trio supply around 50,000 to 60,000 sewer level monitoring devices to monitor sewer levels and sewer derived flow.

The description added that the companies would provide devices “with communications to cloud based data centers via MQTT or HTTPS being utilized if MQTT is not available.”

It added: “Provision of a platform to visualise data produced by the devices and metadata must be included. Provision of data and licensing must be also included for the life of the devices.”

The estimated contract dates run for three years from 1 October 2025 to 30 September 2027, with a possible three-year extension to 30 September 2031.

The tender is currently in a “standstill period,” which is a period of time in which unsuccessful bidders could challenge or call for a review of the decision. This will end on 22 September 2025.

Just last week, the utility was fined £62.8m ($85m) by the UK’s water regulator Ofwat for its management of its sewage treatment works and sewerage networks. Ofwat found that the utility had “failed to put in place adequate processes and systems to routinely monitor and maintain the capacity and performance of its assets to ensure they were meeting legal requirements.”

The money will be used for a community fund and the development and delivering of “Excess Flow Management Plans.”

The investigation was announced by the regulatory body in March 2022, which precedes the announcement of the cloud contract by around three years.

In April 2024, Anglian Water migrated a significant portion of its workloads to Microsoft Azure with the help of data center operator Capgemini, reportedly resulting in a significant reduction of the utility’s data center costs.