Smart Metering

Read every meter remotely, for the life of the meter.Low-power connectivity that reaches basements and pits.

203Countries
718Networks
NB-IoT / LTE-MDeep-indoor reach
DecadeBattery life (PSM)
The challenge

The meter is in the hardest place to reach

Signal where it is weakest

Meters live in basements, cupboards, cellars and underground pits. Ordinary coverage does not reach them, and a meter that cannot be read is a manual visit and an estimated bill.

Batteries that must last a decade

Gas and water meters are sealed and battery-powered for ten to fifteen years. Every transmission and every failed connection eats into a lifespan that has to survive without a site visit.

Millions of endpoints

A metering rollout is not thousands of devices but millions, each needing to be provisioned, monitored and billed with no manual handling per unit.

Meters outlive networks

A meter installed today must still report after 2G and 3G are switched off. Connectivity chosen now has to survive network sunsets across a fifteen-year life.

How our network solves it

Coverage that reaches the meter and lasts its lifetime

NB-IoT for deep indoors

Narrowband IoT is built for exactly this: a large link-budget advantage over standard 4G that pushes signal into basements and pits, on the tiny payloads a meter reading needs.

PSM and eDRX for a decade of battery

Power Saving Mode lets a meter stay registered while it sleeps between reads, waking briefly to report, so a single battery stretches across the meter life.

The strongest signal at every meter

A multi-network profile attaches to the best of 718 networks at each location, so an estate is not held hostage to one operator's map.

eUICC to outlast sunsets

Remote profile management (eUICC) means a fielded meter can be re-homed over the air as networks change, protecting a fifteen-year deployment without a truck roll.

Secure metering data

Fixed IP, IPsec/VPN and selective routing carry DLMS/COSEM meter data on a private path to the head-end, off the public internet.

Provision millions by API

Activate, suspend and monitor an estate of millions programmatically, with live diagnostics to find a non-reporting meter without a visit.

Built for

Across every utility

Electricity metering (AMI)

Interval reads, outage and power-quality data from residential and commercial meters.

Gas metering

Battery-powered, deep-indoor gas meters reporting for a decade on narrowband.

Water metering & leak

Consumption and leak alerts from meters in pits, chambers and basements.

District heating

Heat and flow metering across networked residential and commercial sites.

Sub-metering

Tenant and common-area sub-metering across multi-occupancy buildings.

Prepayment & grid-edge

Prepay meters and grid-edge sensors on the same low-power fabric.

Read your estate remotely, for its lifetime

Tell us your meter types and sites. We will confirm NB-IoT and LTE-M coverage and validate networks on request.