You likely face significant challenges in managing water scarcity, as climate change and population growth create imbalances between supply and demand. This makes it difficult to ensure reliable access to water, while also conserving rapidly depleting resources.
Without proactive infrastructure investments, you probably deal with aging systems that are prone to failure.This increases operational costs and complicates maintenance efforts, as repairing or replacing old pipelines and facilities often requires significant financial outlays.
You are likely losing significant amounts of water through leaks or inefficiencies, which impacts your bottom line. The inability to fully capture revenue from the water you provide increases the pressure on your financial margins.
Staying compliant with evolving regulations is a growing concern, as governments introduce stricter rules around water conservation, environmental impact, and safety standards. This often requires expensive upgrades to your systems and more rigorous monitoring of your water sources.
Without access to more frequent data from water meters, it may be difficult to track water usage patterns as frequently as needed. This can limit your ability to detect leaks, and monitor system efficiency. The lack of timely data makes it harder to optimize water distribution and reduce non-revenue water losses.
How water metering using IoT can help you address your challenges?
Collect data from smart meters more frequently
With IoT-enabled smart meters, you can collect water usage at much more frequent intervals than with traditional meters. This enhanced visibility allows you to monitor consumption patterns more accurately and make timely adjustments to water distribution, improving your operational efficiency and billing accuracy.
Detect leaks based on smart meter data
Smart water meters can automatically detect and alert you to leaks or abnormal water flow right on time. This capability drastically reduces the time between the onset of a leak and its resolution, preventing water loss, minimizing damage, and lowering repair costs. Early detection through smart technology reduces the risk of major system failures and helps you avoid the costly consequences of undetected water waste.
Manage security of smart meters
With IoT-enabled smart meters, you can manage the security of your devices through over-the-air firmware updates, ensuring they are always protected against the latest cybersecurity threats. This proactive security management ensures that your meters remain compliant with industry standards and prevents unauthorized access or tampering with your metering infrastructure.
Manage meters remotely and reduce maintenance costs
IoT-enabled smart meters eliminate the need for manual readings, allowing for efficient remote management and monitoring. With real-time data access, you can quickly detect and address issues, reducing operational costs. Continuous monitoring helps prevent costly failures by identifying malfunctions early, while remote troubleshooting and firmware updates keep meters running optimally.
You should consider Coiote IoT Device Management Platform if you have:
Provide water management services and need a reliable solution for managing a large number of connected devices, ensuring efficient operations, and gaining actionable insights into water usage and system performance to ensure value for your customers.
Manage meters at a utility water company and look for a centralized platform to streamline the management of your IoT-enabled devices from different vendors, improve water distribution, detect anomalies such as leaks, and optimize maintenance costs.
Want to deploy NB-IoT smart meters and benefit from a robust platform to not only integrate and manage these meters at scale but also conduct comprehensive testing and validation with LwM2M standard.
What is Coiote IoT Device Management Platform?
Coiote, an LwM2M Server, functions as both a middleware platform for ingesting telemetry data and a powerful solution for large-scale device management.
For telemetry, it facilitates seamless device connectivity and data collection in a standardized LwM2M format, integrating smoothly with your applications, analytics tools, or cloud platforms. On the device management side, Coiote provides robust, standardized capabilities for remote configuration, over-the-air firmware updates, and detailed device monitoring.
Is Coiote a Smart Water Metering System?
The Coiote IoT Device Management Platform can be integrated seamlessly with your end smart water metering systems to provide robust management and monitoring capabilities. By leveraging Coiote's support for the LwM2M protocol, utilities and water management companies can connect, monitor, and manage thousands of smart meters remotely, ensuring real-time data collection and device health tracking.
Benefits of Coiote IoT Device Management Platform/LwM2M Server for smart water metering
Accelerate your IoT solution development with the power of LwM2M standardization. Instead of building from scratch, seamlessly connect your products using ready integrations and out-of-the-box device management features, allowing you to free up internal resources to focus on business cases and profitability.
Save on development and maintenance costswhen building an IoT solution - Building your own can be more expensive and time-consuming, shifting focus from business to technical details. LwM2M solutions like Coiote offer ready-made features such as telemetry data collection, device management, firmware updates, and secure communication.
Quickly connect your devicesthrough a platform designed for NB-IoT networks, supported by experts who can help overcome challenges related to constrained devices.
Collect the telemetry and device data you need with the flexible LwM2M data model. Access standardized objects and resources, or create custom objects tailored to your use case. Whether you’re tracking water pressure, temperature, or water flow, choose the data that fits your needs. Leverage granular data to monitor device health, battery levels, and more.
Avoid vendor lock-in – when building a long-term solution, ensure you’re not dependent on a single vendor. The open LwM2M protocol offers multiple client and server implementations, providing flexibility across hardware, device software, and server systems.
Ensure efficient data transfer – Utilize LwM2M over CoAP, minimizing bandwidth usage to transmit essential data even when connectivity is limited or intermittent.
Optimize power consumption with LwM2M-specific battery life extension options, such as queue mode, to support asynchronous communication and efficient sleep cycles for extended periods of time.
Build a scalable IoT solution with the Coiote IoT Device Management Platform, designed to support a large number of devices and comprehensive management at scale.
Ensure enterprise-level security with features like device encryption, authentication, automated bootstrapping, certificate management, secure and efficient firmware updates, as well as user and tenant management.
Monitor the connectivity status of smart water meters to prevent data loss and improve operational efficiency through proactive maintenance.
Ensure interoperability – manage devices with different hardware from a single platform in a unified way
Identify and troubleshoot issues quickly to save on service costs – access detailed logs and diagnostic information and resolve problems remotely by resetting, rebooting, executing remote commands, and performing tests.
Why should you consider this platform compared to other alternatives?
When compared to open-source LwM2M platforms, which rely on community-driven support, Coiote delivers responsive commercial technical support with SLAs, more robust enterprise-ready features, and faster feature development, specifically designed for large-scale deployments and enterprise needs.
In contrast to major cloud providers, Coiote offers advantages like no vendor lock-in, CoAP support, more detailed device monitoring and configuration, and enhanced flexibility for integrating third-party platforms.
Among commercial LwM2M providers, Coiote stands out as the most mature solution, backed by an expert embedded teamthat facilitates device integration and technical support. It also provides more platform integration options, including Webhooks and Kafka.
Compared to other platforms, our FOTA (Firmware Over-The-Air) features are more comprehensive, enabling you to track firmware update statuses, results, and version history.
Unlike other solutions, Coiote offers predictable pricing based on the number of connected devices rather than usage.
Compared to building your own in-house solution, Coiote IoT Device Management Platform offers advanced, ready-to-use features like device management, firmware updates, LwM2M data model, and security, which can drastically cut down development and deployment time. Additionally, the platform includes ongoing support, updates, and improvements from AVSystem, ensuring it remains aligned with the latest technologies and security standards. Maintaining an in-house solution demands significant resources and expertise.
To facilitate creation of an end-to-end LwM2M-based solution, you can use the Anjay IoT SDK. This IoT software development kit enables simple development of LwM2M-based IoT devices. Its high-quality integrations for popular hardware platforms, developer tools, and technical support, makes development of IoT devices noticeably easier.
Are you in the midst of prototyping your IoT project or facing challenges with scalable device monitoring? Share your progress with us, and our experts will guide you on leveraging the Coiote IoT Device Management Platform to easily overcome your business and technical hurdles. Whether you need a personalized demo to witness our capabilities in action or seek answers to crucial IoT questions, we're here to help.
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