ENNOS and Innovex partner to expand sustainable water access in Africa

Swiss water-pump innovator ENNOS and Ugandan tech manufacturer Innovex have entered a strategic partnership aimed at scaling reliable, solar-powered water access in rural Africa. The collaboration combines ENNOS's high-efficiency SunCentrifugal pump technology with Innovex's REMOT IoT platform — giving operators real-time visibility into every installation in the field.

Why this matters

Across the continent, hundreds of millions of people still rely on water sources that are either unsafe, distant, or unreliable. Solar pumping is one of the most promising answers, but the typical bottleneck isn't hardware — it's operations. A pump that fails in a remote village and isn't repaired for weeks helps no one.

By pairing pumps with always-on monitoring, the partnership aims to:

• Detect faults before they become outages
• Reduce site visits by routing technicians only where needed
• Give funders and governments transparent uptime reporting
• Make pay-per-use and pay-as-you-grow water schemes viable

What we're building together

Together, the teams will assemble pre-integrated kits — pump, controller, sensors and REMOT gateway — ready to install at schools, health centres and smallholder farms. Field data flows back to a single dashboard so partners running fleets of installations can manage them like a connected utility.

"Water access is fundamentally an uptime problem. Pair brilliant hardware with live data, and you turn one-off projects into dependable services."

What's next

Pilot deployments begin this year, with manufacturing scale-up planned at our Kampala facility. If your organisation is deploying solar water systems and wants to plug into REMOT, get in touch.