Water metering solutions
PKE IoT Expert platform dramatically reduces time to market and efforts to create water metering solutions. Save up to 90% of development time for your smart office solution by utilizing the following platform benefits:
- Reliable and fault-tolerant data collection from your IoT devices and sensors;
- Powerful rule engine to process collected data and produce alarms and valuable insights;
- Advanced and flexible visualization for real-time and historical data;
- Customizable end-user dashboards to share the monitoring results;
- On-premises and cloud deployment options;
- Remote control and OTA updates for your IoT devices;
- Customizable mobile applications with minimum coding efforts;
The platform provides production-ready server infrastructure to connect your IoT water meters, store, analyze and share collected IoT data;
Water metering template
Water Metering solution template represents a generic water metering solution. With this template, you get interactive dashboards that allow administrators and end-users to browse the state of the water meters and aggregated water consumption statistics. Users are able to define thresholds and enable alarms and notifications over SMS or email. You may easily integrate with external billing systems to produce and distribute invoices based on the aggregated consumption data.
The dashboard allows you to:
- observe location and status of the water meters on the map. Markers are clustered to be able to show thousands of meters simultaneously;
- browse active alarms and water consumption per day and week;
- use “Analytics”, “Devices”, “Alarms” views that are similar to the main dashboard;
- use “Settings” view to define alarm thresholds for the particular customer. Generated alarms will not be visible to Tenant Administrator by default;
Once you install the solution template, you will also receive access to “Water Metering Tenant Dashboard” that allows you to manage water metering devices, users and alarms:
- observe location and status of the water meters on the map. Markers are clustered to be able to show thousands of meters simultaneously;
- use “Analytics” view to compare consumption for the current and previous month;
- use “Devices” view to get the list of all water meter devices with ability to
- create a new device and assign it to the customer;
- change the location of the device;
- configure alarm thresholds for this device;
- navigate to “Device” view by clicking on the device row;
- use “Device” view to:
- browse water consumption history for a particular water meter device;
- browse active alarms for a particular water meter device;
- change water meter location information
- upload water meter photo;
- change location of the device;
- use “Customers” view to manage your customers;
- use “Alarms” view to browse and clear alarms from water meters;
- use “Settings” view to:
- turn system alarms on and off;
- define thresholds for system alarms;
- turn sms and email notifications on and off;
Some dashboard features (for example, ability to create devices) were disabled on the live demo dashboard because it is publicly available.
PKE IoT Expert advantages
PKE IoT Expert supports high-availability deployments using K8S. Platform components are horizontally scalable.
Connect devices directly to the platform via the following built-in protocols: HTTP, CoAP, MQTT, LwM2M, and SNMP. Connect devices in your local network to the cloud using IoT Gateway via Modbus, BLE, BACnet, OPC-UA, and other protocols.
Connect LoRaWAN devices via integrations with standard network servers like TTN, LORIOT, ChirpStack, Actility, etc. Connect SigFox devices via integrations with the SigFox backend.
PKE IoT Expert supports industry-standard encryption algorithms like RSA and ECDSA to ensure the data is secure during transfer via TLS(TCP) and DTLS (UDP).
PKE IoT Expert allows you to define application logic with drag-n-drop rule chain designer. The Rule Engine is a robust and scalable processing framework that leverages industry-standard message queue implementations like Apache Kafka or AWS SQS to ensure data durability and guarantee data processing. You are free to process data with the Rule engine or push it to further processing in external systems.
Visualize collected data using rich interactive dashboards. Develop multi-state interactive dashboards with zero coding efforts and built-in charts, gauges, maps, tables, and control widgets. Customize every dashboard aspect using advanced widget settings or even custom widget bundles. Low latency updates are possible with embedded web-sockets support.
PKE IoT Expert Mobile Application comes with an built-in set of mobile actions to take a photo, scan QR code, update location, and interact directly with the customers dashboards.
PKE IoT Expert provides UI and API to manage tenants, customers, users, devices, and assets. Single tenant may have multiple tenant administrators and millions of devices and customers. It also offers out-of-the-box support of OTA updates for your smart meters.
