Enabling real-time responsiveness with event-driven architecture

In Belgium’s Flanders region, 600,000 smart meters watch every drop of water flowing through homes and businesses. When a meter spots trouble—say, three liters trickling away every hour for three straight days—it instantly triggers an alert. A letter lands in that customer’s mailbox the next day, warning them about the hidden leak.

This kind of automated intervention is powered by event-driven architecture (EDA), the foundation of the Smart Water platform. At its core, EDA connects scattered devices…