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IoT Smart Metering Solutions

IoT and smart meters

Traditionally being a part of the electrical grid infrastructure, a smart meter is an electronic device that allows for remote monitoring and recording of energy consumption. However, in the age of IoT and IoT platforms, standalone smart meters give way to more advanced and multi-purpose smart metering solutions. These solutions offer a broader range of remote monitoring and alerting capabilities as well as provide powerful data analytics tools to help companies and individual users optimize their energy, water, gas, or fuel consumption.

A typical challenge for companies implementing smart meters is how to integrate them within their infrastructure and set up custom-tailored smart metering use cases. The best way to achieve these goals is by using an IoT platform that offers out-of-the-box solutions and templates for smart metering, such as Boxtech. One of the strongest advantages of an enterprise-grade IoT platform is its data processing capabilities. Not only will you be able to collect data from your diverse smart meters in a centralized way, but also set up custom visualization dashboards, configure user alerts and notifications, and feed the collected data into other applications or data stores.

Another critical advantage is the cost of smart metering implementation. Using an IoT platform allows you to have all the necessary functionality right away and focus on building particular smart metering use cases instead, saving time and avoiding the risks associated with in-house IoT development.

Building end-to-end smart metering solutions with Boxtech

Boxtech IoT platform provides out-of-the-box components and APIs to dramatically drive down effort required to create smart metering solutions, resulting in highly improved time to market, reliability, and competitiveness of your solutions. By our estimates, companies may save up to 90% of their product development time when utilizing the following features and benefits of Boxtech:

  • Reliable and fault tolerant data collection for your smart water meters, energy monitors, smart energy meters, etc.;
  • Powerful rule engine to process collected data and produce alarms and valuable insights;
  • Advanced, customizable data visualization for real-time and historical smart metering monitoring;
  • Alarm weights to instantly notify users and / or operators about any critical events or unusual consumption levels;
  • Device management to allow you to organize your endpoints in groups  by specific attributes;
  • Customizable end-user dashboards  (featuring drill-down capabilities) to analyze and share the results of smart metering monitoring;
  • Remote control and OTA updates for your smart meters and other devices;
  • Customizable mobile applications with minimum coding efforts;


    • The Boxtech IoT platform provides production ready server infrastructure to connect your smart meter devices, collect, store and analyze smart metering data, and share results of the analysis with your customers and end-users.

    Smart metering dashboard

    The following interactive dashboard hosted on live demo server represents smart metering IoT data visualization that may be embedded in your IoT project or solution. See the dashboard description below.

The live dashboard displays real-time data from several smart meters and thermostats collected using Boxtech MQTT API. Collected data is processed via the rule engine to raise alarms on certain thresholds. The main dashboard displays multiple districts and enables user to drill down from a district to the building and apartment levels. Click on the apartment level to open the statistics from multiple apartment devices. You may export the dashboard from our live demo server and import it to your Boxtech instance.