Glossary

Your source for water‑industry hardware, IoT connectivity options, and Internet‑of‑Water terminology.

06 May 2026•Ing. Peter Kovács

4-20 mA current loop

How the 4–20 mA analog current loop works, how to convert it for PLC/ADC inputs, standards (NAMUR NE
21 May 2026•Ing. Peter Kovács

Battery Life for IoT Sensors

How to design, measure and validate multi‑year battery life for municipal and industrial IoT sensors
06 May 2026•Ing. Peter Kovács

Bluetooth LE 5.2 & LE Audio

How Bluetooth LE 5.2, the LC3 codec and Auracast broadcast audio enable low‑power, multi‑stream pers
08 Apr 2026•Ing. Peter Kovács

Continuous Water Level Measurement 2025

Practical guide to designing, procuring and operating continuous water-level monitoring programs in
13 May 2026•Ing. Peter Kovács

Digital Pulse Counter

How to specify, install and operate battery‑powered digital pulse counters for water‑meter retrofit
06 May 2026•Ing. Peter Kovács, Technical Freelance writer

Early Warning Systems for Floods & Multi‑Hazard Events

How municipalities turn sensors, forecasts and multichannel alerts into minutes‑to‑hours of actionab
06 May 2026•Ing. Peter Kovács

Flood Risk Management 2026

A practical, climate‑informed playbook for city‑scale flood risk reduction: from LiDAR hazard maps a
06 May 2026•Ing. Peter Kovács

Flood sensor

Practical guide to choosing, procuring and deploying municipal flood sensors (ultrasonic, radar, pre
05 May 2026•Ing. Peter Kovács

Flood Warning System

How sensors, telemetry and verified forecasting combine into an operational flood early warning chai
05 May 2026•Ing. Peter Kovács

IoT gateway

How to choose and specify an industrial IoT gateway for utilities: procurement checklist, standards,
21 May 2026•Ing. Peter Kovács

IP67 Protection Rating

What IP67 means for sensors, enclosures and procurement in smart‑water and municipal projects — test
21 May 2026•Ing. Peter Kovács

IP68 Protection Rating

Practical procurement and field guidance on IP68 ingress‑protection for sensors and enclosures used
06 May 2026•Ing. Peter Kovács

LoRaWAN

Practical guide to LoRaWAN for water utilities and smart‑city deployments: spectrum, range, battery
06 May 2026•Ing. Peter Kovács

LPWAN

Practical, procurement‑ready guide for utilities and smart‑city teams on choosing and deploying LPWA
06 May 2026•Ing. Peter Kovács

LTE Cat-M

Practical guide for utilities: how LTE Cat‑M (Cat‑M1) balances mobility, low power and modest throug
06 May 2026•Ing. Peter Kovács

Modbus RTU

Practical, field‑ready guide to Modbus RTU for water utilities: wiring, timing, register mapping, ga
05 May 2026•Ing. Peter Kovács

NB‑IoT

A practical, procurement‑focused primer on Narrowband‑IoT for utilities and smart‑city water monitor
21 May 2026•Ing. Peter Kovács, Technical Freelance writter

Non-Contact Level Sensor

Non-contact level sensors (80 GHz FMCW radar or ultrasonic) measure liquid and bulk-solid levels fro
06 May 2026•Ing. Peter Kovács

NTN Satellite IoT

How Non‑Terrestrial Networks (NB‑NTN, NR‑NTN and satellite LPWAN) extend low‑power telemetry into re
13 May 2026•Ing. Peter Kovács

OptoMOS relay

Practical guide to OptoMOS (PhotoMOS) MOSFET solid‑state relays: what they are, key specs (V_P, Rds(
13 May 2026•Ing. Peter Kovács

Pluviometer

What a pluviometer is, how it measures rainfall, the primary types (tipping bucket, weighing, optica
21 May 2026•Ing. Peter Kovács

Precipitation measurement 2026

How cities fuse gauges, radar QPE, IMERG and crowdsourced stations with QC and merging to produce bi
08 Apr 2026•Ing. Peter Kovács

Pressure Level Sensor

Practical guide to hydrostatic (pressure‑based) level sensors for tanks, wells and open channels — s
09 Apr 2026•Ing. Peter Kovács

Radar Level Sensor

Practical, standards-aligned guide to non-contact radar level sensors for water and wastewater — sel
21 May 2026•Ing. Peter Kovács

Rain gauge

Practical guide to modern rain gauges (tipping, weighing, optical, acoustic): what they measure, how
13 May 2026•Ing. Peter Kovács

Rain Sensor IoT 2026

A practitioner’s guide to connected rain sensors (tipping‑bucket, weighing, optical and disdrometers
21 May 2026•Ing. Peter Kovács

Rainfall intensity

Why rainfall intensity (mm/h) matters for sewer sizing, flash‑flood and debris‑flow triggers, and ho
21 May 2026•Ing. Peter Kovács

Remote Monitoring

A field guide to city-scale remote monitoring: sensors, connectivity, data cadence, security, and a
06 May 2026•Ing. Peter Kovács

River level monitoring

Continuous stage and water‑surface elevation monitoring using cameras, radar, in‑situ sensors and sa
05 May 2026•Ing. Peter Kovács

RS-485

Practical, field-proven guidance for specifying, wiring and commissioning RS‑485 fieldbuses in munic
21 May 2026•Ing. Peter Kovács

SCADA system

Practical guide to designing, modernizing and securing SCADA systems for municipal water — architect
21 May 2026•Ing. Peter Kovács

Smart City Water Monitoring 2026

How validated low‑power sensors, LPWAN connectivity and governed real‑time pipelines (Kafka → Storm
09 Jul 2026•Ing. Peter Kovács, Technical Freelance writer

Smart drainage system

A practical, evidence‑based guide to deploying smart drainage systems for urban flood resilience, in
21 May 2026•Ing. Peter Kovács

Smart Infrastructure 2026

How IoT sensors, edge analytics and digital twins together reduce failures, cut emissions and lower
21 May 2026•Ing. Peter Kovács

Smart Water Management

How sensors, LPWAN/ cellular connectivity, digital twins and KPI‑driven pilot plans reduce non‑reven
21 May 2026•Ing. Peter Kovács, Technical Freelance writer

Tipping Bucket Rain Gauge

Practical guide to tipping-bucket rain gauges (TBRGs): how they work, calibration best practices, co
06 May 2026•Ing. Peter Kovács

Urban flood monitoring

How cities combine street sensors, cameras and bias‑corrected rainfall to deliver hyperlocal, real‑t
04 May 2026•Ing. Peter Kovács

Water Level Data Logger 2026

Field guide to selecting, installing and operating water level data loggers in 2026 — compares press
08 Apr 2026•Ing. Peter Kovács

Water Level Monitoring System

A practical, procurement-ready guide to designing, deploying, and operating IoT water level monitori
09 Apr 2026•Ing. Peter Kovács

Water Level Sensor

Practical, vendor‑agnostic guidance for selecting, deploying and operating IoT water‑level sensors a
21 May 2026•Ing. Peter Kovács

Weather station

Practical guide to choosing, siting, commissioning and operating an IoT weather station for drainage