Sedate Municipal Solutions, a wholly owned subsidiary of MICROmega Holdings, has acquired a controlling stake (51%) in Amanzi Meters (Pty) Ltd, a South African manufacturer of world class innovative water management and metering products for the African Market.
Sebata is the leading provider of integrated technology solutions, enterprise management systems and multidisciplinary professional services to municipalities, public entities and provincial government for over 40 years. Through a partnership with Amanzi, Sebata is now offering its clients a water management solution to bring water losses under control- amongst other functions.
“This acquisition is in line with MICROmega’s strategy to grow its information technology group of companies”, said Greg Morris, Chief Executive Officer of MICROmega. “Local Municipalities and Utilities are facing water losses in the region of billions of Rands and are now turning to smart metering, automated meter reading and pre-paid meters to recover some of these losses. Accordingly, a requirement of local government for 2014 is to cut water losses by half.
Through this acquisition Sebata now offers a domestic water management solution that aims to assist municipalities with meeting this arduous task.”
“Sebata’s key objective is to assist its clients in achieving their business strategies and ultimately deliver a more efficient and cost effective service to their constituents”, added Dylan Strydom, Managing Director of Sebata. “Our revenue enhancing strategy now includes providing water management systems by way of smart meter readings with prepaid functionality, leak detection, and real time control to assist our clients with bringing their water losses and demand management under control.”
“Amanzi locally manufactures water meters, water meter boxes and water management devices”, says Strydom. “This made the company particularly attractive to Sebata as the majority of these products are still made outside of South Africa’s borders, resulting in more expensive water management products which may not necessarily suit the South African market. Furthermore, local manufacturing ensures that Sebata can now control the whole value chain, ensuring our products are competitively priced and thereby meet our clients’ specific needs.”
Amanzi Managing Director Johan van der Merwe states: “The synergies are unmistakable. We supply premier water management products while Sebata offers relevant smart metering technology; together the result is a competitive and deliberate water management system that is well positioned to meet the objective of cutting water losses. Sebata was an obvious partner for Amanzi with its existing footprint, excellent brand presence and strong relationships in the local government and Utilities’ space. We believe Sebata is the ideal company to take our products to market”.
Sebata also offers a meter reading solution enabling real-time collection of meter reading data from the field by using cellular technology, a smart water solution for the supply of Intelligent Metering Services with prepaid functionality, and Automated Meter Reading (AMR); a revolutionary product for municipalities.
But why stop at water management? The company also offers electrical pre-payment solutions as well as Cloud and enterprise management solutions.
