Water metering

Water is one of our most critical resources, and managing its distribution and consumption is key for sustainable urban development, utility cost control, and infrastructure maintenance. For this purpose, the inovaea cloud platform is an ideal choice, offering powerful capabilities for real-time monitoring, alarms, visualization, and analytics

Traditional water metering methods often fall short in providing real-time data, accurate billing, and predictive maintenance insights. By leveraging connected sensors and intelligent dashboards, organizations can unlock powerful insights into water usage, detect anomalies like leaks, and automate alarm systems. At the core of these solutions is inovaea cloud, a flexible IoT platform enabling the collection, processing, and visualization of telemetry data from water meters in real time.

This inovaea cloud-powered water metering solution provides complete real-time visibility into water usage, instant response to anomalies, and valuable analytics for long-term infrastructure planning. Scalable across municipalities, residential complexes, and commercial facilities, it offers a powerful tool for smart and efficient water resource management.

Dashboard structure of water metering solution

The inovaea water metering dashboard is structured into dedicated states, each focusing on a key aspect of system monitoring, control, and analysis. Below is a breakdown of each state with its purpose and content:

Total overview state

This view provides a real-time snapshot of system-wide metrics, such as total water consumed in the current week, active/inactive device counts, and any low battery alerts. An interactive map shows meter locations, while bar charts and alarm lists offer instant visibility into daily usage and critical threshold breaches

Analytics state

Designed for trend analysis, this state allows users to compare historical and current water consumption patterns over the week. It helps identify usage spikes or efficiency improvements by showing data from both the present and the previous intervals.

Devices state

This dashboard displays all registered water meters with essential metadata like latest readings, status, and leak detection. Users can manage device information, monitor their real-time performance, and quickly respond to technical issues. Additionally, this view allows users to add new devices by entering their serial number and metadata, edit existing device details, change geolocation parameters by dragging a map marker, and configure alarm thresholds for consumption, battery, or inactivity detection.

Customers state

Each water meter is associated with a specific customer profile, allowing for individualized usage tracking and customer service. The dashboard enables administrators to add or update customer contact details and manage meter assignments.

Alarms state

This critical interface aggregates all triggered alarms with timestamps, originators, and severity levels. Operators can quickly acknowledge or dismiss alerts, ensuring rapid incident response and system reliability.

Settings state

Here, administrators configure alarm thresholds (e.g., daily/weekly consumption, battery level) and notification preferences. The system supports both email and SMS alerts to ensure stakeholders are promptly informed.

Individual device dashboards

Each device has its own dedicated view showing granular consumption data by hour, daily/weekly totals, and battery health. It includes editable location mapping and detailed metadata, enabling localized control and diagnostics. Additionally, each dashboard displays device-specific contact information for the owner, facilitating support and communication, as well as a photo section that allows users to upload or update an image of the physical device for visual identification and verification.

Customer-specific dashboards

inovaea cloud provides individual dashboards tailored for end customers, allowing them to monitor only their assigned water meters. This ensures data privacy while empowering users with full visibility into their personal consumption, device status, and alert history.

Rule chains: data processing logic

The backend logic of the solution is driven by inovaea cloud rule chains, which handle incoming telemetry from devices and automate alarm routing, threshold checks, and notification dispatch. These visual flowcharts allow platform administrators to customize workflows based on device status, tenant or customer settings, and alarm types, ensuring flexibility and scalability of the solution.

Data export

Export of optional data and alarms to Excel, CSV, PDF, JSON formats.

Applications of water metering: versatility across industries

IoT-based water metering is not limited to utility companies. The same architecture and approach can be repurposed across a wide range of sectors:

Municipal water services

By using IoT-based water metering, municipalities can automate meter readings and billing processes, gain insight into consumption trends across entire cities, and react instantly to issues such as leaks or overuse.

Agriculture & irrigation

Farmers can leverage real-time data to optimize irrigation schedules, reduce unnecessary water usage, and improve crop yields while maintaining environmental responsibility.

Smart buildings

Water metering in smart buildings enables facility managers to fine-tune plumbing infrastructure, minimize waste through real-time monitoring, and improve the overall experience and sustainability for occupants.

Industrial facilities

Industries benefit from accurate water monitoring to stay compliant with strict environmental standards and to manage utility costs more effectively through predictive consumption insights.

Hospitality & resorts

Hotels and resorts can monitor water usage across various zones or guest areas to implement sustainable practices, reduce operating costs, and engage guests in eco-conscious initiatives.