Show 07 of 07 · What it is built from
The AI, Smart Water and Utility Technology Show
Every water tender in India now carries a digital line, and somebody writes it before it reaches a portal.
A dedicated show inside EAW Global Aqua Expo 2027, with its own hall, its own conference track and its own buyer campaign. Hyderabad, January 2027. New Delhi, May 2027.
Ten years ago digital was an add on. Today no utility contract, no plant upgrade and no city programme is written without metering, monitoring and data attached to it.
This show exists because the person who specifies that line is not the person who buys the pump. They sit in IT, in the control room and in the mission office, and they need to be sold to differently.
Category and buyer counts are specific to EAW DIGITAL. The visitor figure is the 2026 platform total across all halls, from the final registration database. Per-show visitor figures begin with the 2027 editions, when each show has its own badge stream.
Three things that decide this floor
Online effluent monitoring is a consent condition and metering is written into utility contracts. Instrumentation moved from optional to required
Jal Jeevan Mission 2.0 shifted the focus from building assets to running them, which turns monitoring into a procurement line rather than a pilot
Leak prediction, demand forecasting, energy optimisation and asset failure modelling now run in production at Indian utilities and large plants
EAW DIGITAL in one paragraph
Every tender in this sector now carries a digital line item, and somebody writes that line months before it reaches a portal. This show is where those people come to see it running rather than read about it, in a working control room rather than on a screenshot.
The exhibitor profile
These are the categories a visitor ticks when they say what they are sourcing. Matching runs code to code, so you are not relying on somebody typing the same words you did.
- DIG-01
AI and machine learning for water operations - DIG-02
Digital twins and hydraulic network modelling - DIG-03
SCADA, PLC and plant control systems - DIG-04
Water meters, smart metering and AMR - DIG-05
Online water and effluent analysers and sensors - DIG-06
Leak detection, acoustic sensing and pressure management - DIG-07
GIS, satellite and remote sensing for water networks - DIG-08
Flow, level and pressure instrumentation - DIG-09
Utility billing, CRM and consumer applications - DIG-10
Robotics, drones and pipeline inspection - DIG-11
Water data platforms, dashboards and analytics - DIG-12
Cybersecurity for water utilities and treatment plants
The visitor profile
Invitation campaigns run per show. Nobody on this list receives a generic water exhibition email.
Buyers invited to this show
- Utility chief engineers and control room heads
- Non revenue water and network managers
- Smart city special purpose vehicles and mission teams
- Plant automation and instrumentation engineers
- IT and OT teams inside utilities and industry
- System integrators and technology partners
- Consultants writing digital scope into tenders
- Data centre facilities and sustainability leads
- Innovation scouts, incubators and investors
What a stand here includes
- Space in the one show your buyer actually attends
- Free cross listing in every other show where your categories appear
- The full gate on one shared visitor badge
- Matchmaking against declared sourcing lists, not guesswork
- Hosted buyer list published 60 days before the show, by company and function
- Post show lead report within 10 working days, ready for your CRM
- Both cities on one contract if you take Hyderabad and Delhi together
Which edition this show belongs in
Both cities run this show. They do not run it at the same weight. Book the one your buyer walks, or take both on one contract.
Hyderabad Strong
Data centres, plant automation, instrumentation and the southern technology base.
29 to 31 January 2027 · HITEX Exhibition Centre
North India, policy and utilities · 20–22 May 2027New Delhi Lead
Utility 4.0, smart cities, national NRW programmes and mission digital budgets.
20 to 22 May 2027 · Bharat Mandapam, Pragati Maidan
Scope, procurement and the conference track
| Not in this show | The physical assets being instrumented, which sit in MUNICIPAL, INDUSTRIAL, WASTEWATER and TECHNOLOGY. General enterprise IT with no water application, which belongs at a technology exhibition. |
|---|---|
| Live procurement | City wide smart metering roll outs, non revenue water reduction programmes, SCADA and control upgrades at treatment plants, online effluent monitoring mandates, digital twin deployments and utility billing modernisation. |
| Conference track | Utilities 4.0 and AI in Water. Non revenue water at scale, digital twins in practice, AI from pilot to production, smart metering roll outs and cybersecurity for utilities. |
| Across both cities | Hyderabad, January 2027. Strong. Data centres, plant automation, instrumentation and the southern technology base. Delhi, May 2027. Lead. Utility 4.0, smart cities, national NRW programmes and mission digital budgets. |
Reserve space in EAW DIGITAL
Tell us your categories and we will send the floor plan, the rate card and the two city package for Hyderabad and Delhi together.