Water technology infrastructure is not what I'd really call "aging". Most municipal automation systems are quite old, but they're very functional. The underlyin

Water technology infrastructure is not what I'd really call "aging". Most municipal automation systems are quite old, but they're very functional. The underlying technology is called SCADA, which is still used today. SCADA is an offline ecosystem by design because the innards of the system are mostly just signals flying around. There's no encryption or IAM in place to defend against bad actors. More recently the cities want their municipal infrastructure that runs on SCADA to integrate nicely with other information systems to either retrieve data which is useful for generating reports, like the delta between water pumped and water served which indicates total loss. The other use case is to perform actions. If I know there's a fire on one side of the city that is a four alarm fire, which will put pressure on service lines as multiple firetrucks begin to demand water, I can decrease pressure on one section while increasing pressure on another. You could perceivably do this in an automated fashion, but there's no such capability in any SCADA systems I know of. Hence, municipalities end up finding integrators who will build them custom devices to interface with their systems. So, this is less an "aging infrastructure" problem and more "new capability demand".