Advantages of LoRaWAN water meter and NB IoT water meter

Advantages of IoT project, operating models now, how does this system benefits them

Traditional water meters need staffs to collect all the data from the residential to local office, calculate and send the bills to users and then collect the payments.

M1 card prepaid meter needs users to charge their cards in local office, go back home and use the card to charge the water meter, water valve would be automatically closed when the charges are ran out, this type of meter can automatically calculate different water prices in different stages, and offer consumption of the month to operators.

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The disadvantages of these two meters are: 1. Scheduled meter check would be needed, extra cost on human resources. 2. The real-time situation of water using would be unknown, the disabilities and other situations would be unknown to the operators. 3. For the M1 prepaid meter, the occasion when users ran out of water and at the same time the office is out of service would definitely cause some trouble. 4. The most of current prepaid water meter have’t got a standard operating system, they are unable to match with each other, some using bluetooth, some using prepaid cars, and some even using the token, this would bother a lot for the supplying system.

IoT water meter is advantaged in the aspects of automatically data collecting, tubes and meters running situation check, online billing and charging and etc.

Unlike the traditional data collecting methods, IoT smart water meters can daily and automatically collect the data straight to operating platform, remotely operates water meters. Which would surely optimize efficiency of work and reports all the abnormal conditions in time.

It would surely reduce company operating cost. No matter it is pipe leaking, meter disfunctioning, out of battery, magnetic interruptions, all the problems and breakdowns would be shown on the operating platform.

Especially in users charging, the IoT system would offer great conveniences to the users, online charging by cellphone or computers would be simple and fast, out of water by not charging would be no more.

LoRaWAN applies an open protocol with international standard, it can match properly to most of different types and brands of water meters, combines them all together into managing and operating.

LoRaWAN is advantaged in low battery consumption and covering range, in this IoT modern age, avoiding the frequent battery changes would be an essential request. LoRaWAN offers an amazing performance in battery consumption, much lower than 4G and NB-IoT. As for the water meters, LoRaWAN offers 6 years long battery life, it can surely meets the long-term applying occasion for the water meter.

Nowadays most of countries in this world have deployed LoRaWAN supports. Many tele companies are offering LoRaWAN services and data platform.

LoRaWAN system can benefits the revenue of the company in charging from other LoRaWAN equipment patch-in, online services charging, data platform using charging and IoT devices selling profits. Similar to the tele companies’ telecommunication charging, internet service charging and phone selling profits.