DIGITALISATION OF UTILITY METERING

Smart OCR Meter Reading for buildings and utilities

LAIWA’s innovative Optical Meter Reading technology offers a new way of cost-effective digitalisation of metering for buildings, utilities and infrastructure, providing products and services that collect data, giving insights, and enabling smart control and automation.

Meter Reading Solutions

LAIWA Metering offers a comprehensive solution for utility and sub-meter reading with low power Optical Meter Readers based on AI machine learning technology. The LAIWA OCR Meter Reader installs nonintrusive on existing legacy meters. The Optical Meter Readers connects via mobile networks to the cloud or through wireless connectivity to local systems.

Digitalisation of Meter Reading

LAIWA provides an innovative solution for the digitalisation of meter reading for utility and sub-meters, preserving the existing investment in metering infrastructure. The LAIWA Optical Meter Readers deploys non intrusively on existing meter infrastructure, connects to the cloud through LTE mobile NB-IoT and CAT-M1 networks or via local wireless connectivity and sends the data to the cloud platform in real-time. The Laiwa Cloud platform provides visibility, reporting, analytics and API connectivity. The system integrates easily with existing platforms and management systems.

OPTICAL METER READER

The Optical Meter Reader installs nonintrusive on conventional utility and submeters preserving existing meter infrastructure. With its advanced processing capabilities and optical and other sensors, it reads the meters with high resolution and accuracy using AI machine learning. The data is transmitted in real-time through its mobile or local wireless connectivity.

WIRELESS CONNECTIVITY

LAIWA’s OCR Meter Readers uses LTE mobile connectivity, NB-IoT and CAT-M1, providing a low power transport layer for data to the cloud. Together with local wireless network enablement, the readers can work autonomously or in groups of meters using one mobile connection. Through the local area connectivity the Optical Meter Readers can connect through Zigbee, Bluetooth (Mesh) and Wireless M-Bus.

CLOUD PLATFORM AND API

The meter data is aggregated in the cloud and available for the insight of utility consumption and device functionality with visibility, reporting and analytics. The platform provides full control of devices and connectivity and integrates seamlessly with existing metering, billing, and management systems.

Optical Meter Readers

LAIWA Optical Meter Readers for Automatic meter reading of legacy utility and sub-meters. The Meter Readers installs non intrusively on the meter and automatically transmits the consumption data and meter status.
The meter readers have wireless connectivity and easy setup for both mobile communication through low power NB-IoT and local wireless connectivity.
The meter readers can work autonomously or in local clusters with a local wireless network sharing one mobile connection.

Water Meter Readers

Automatically collects meter readings from legacy water meters

Electricity Meter Readers

Automatically collects meter readings from legacy electricity meters

Gas meter readers

Automatically collects meter readings from legacy gas meters

Generic Meter readers

Automatically collects meter readings from legacy meters of different types.

IoT Cloud Platform for Metering

The LAIWA IoT Cloud platform for Metering applications provides

  • Connectivity, support for multiple protocols.
  • Security, end to end encryption.
  • Data Insight & Statistics, analyse the data and generate reports.
  • Device Management, control all aspects of connected devices.
  • Presentation, see the data as control panels, tables and charts.

Plug and Play ready for Laiwa Meter Readers providing an easy and secure installation of Metering Devices. 

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Optical automatic meter reading

Laiwa Metering provide a complete solution for Utility and Sub Meter Reading with Optical Readers for legacy utility meters. The Optical Meter Readers are connected through low power wireless networks and can easily be deployed on existing meter infrastructure. Data from the optical sensors and mobile apps are visible on the cloud platform in real time. The Laiwa IoT Cloud platform provides visibility, reporting, powerful analytics and easy integration. The system provides full user account management, device management of connected meter readers and apps. Graphical displays and control panels provides immediate insight in real time data as well as analysis and reports on historical data. The system integrates seamlessy with existing metering, billing and management systems.

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