Primayer| What's ahead for Primayer in 2020?

David Frost , managing director of Servelec Technologies, reflects on the company’s acquisition of Primayer in 2019 and discusses what lies ahead in 2020.

Pressure to reduce leakage levels coming from UK water industry regulators has led to a global interest in leak detection and location technologies emerging in the UK market. When David Frost joined Servelec Technologies as managing director in 2018, his first task was to scour the market for acquisitions boasting technologies delivering a step-change in digital technology and leak detection. He identified Primayer, a mature technology company and a leading light in pinpoint leak detection. The two companies had had a mutually respectful relationship over many years, but the timing was right as Primayer’s owner, Roger Ironmonger was just starting to consider his own next steps.

“The strategic rationale was as good as any you can find when you’re trying to build out the core business – we want to present an end-to-end offer to water companies to remotely monitor and control their assets. This starts with Primayer’s onsite datalogger and correlation system, which feeds directly into Servelec Technologies highly secure SCADA/telemetry data transfer systems.

“There was no duplication, it was 100 per cent a complementary offering and the synergies go further still as our end customers in the UK are the same.”

Industrial IoT is reshaping automation, engineering and infrastructure globally and for the water industry, the installation of multiple low-cost leak detection devices makes capturing real-time operational data much easier. By harnessing and transmitting this wealth of newly available data, companies can carry out strategic operational analysis to drive efficiencies and reduce cost.

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