Smart Water for Smart Cities

Ben Wilson is the Chief Operating Officer at Olea Edge Analytics. Wilson, who formerly worked as Google’s Chief Technology Officer — Energy, joined Olea Edge Analytics’ growing technology team in 2021 and guides the technical development of new products. Wilson brings 30 years of experience working with the world’s top technology companies. He began his career working on the space station and space shuttle programs at IBM and later served as Chief Information Officer of Siemens Energy and CTO at GE Oil & Gas and P2 Energy Solutions. He joined Google in 2017, heading up Google — Energy’s technical efforts to bring cloud services to the energy sector and use big data to help clients become more efficient.

For instance, in 2021, Atlanta renewed its partnership with Olea Edge Analytics, a smart water company that uses AI to identify water meters in industrial facilities that are malfunctioning. Not only is this estimated to save Atlanta tens of millions of dollars in recovered revenue, but it will also improve the city’s water efficiency.

The Irving Water Utilities Department partnered with Olea Edge Analytics for a pilot program designed to find a better way of managing their large meters. Olea's solution quickly uncovered performance issues with 35 out of the 50 meters in the initial study, enabling the City to forego time-consuming, water-wasting industry practices like flow testing. Olea technology also identified the cause of meter issues, enabling Irving to resolve issues more quickly and efficiently.

Daily AI Roundup: Biggest ML, Robotic and Automation updates Olea Edge Analytics™, an intelligent edge computing platform for the water utility industry, announced a trio of executive hires who will play critical roles as the company continues to grow rapidly to meet market demand.