Turn your vehicle fleet into a mobile radio network for meter reading. Use every trip your vehicles make to read your radio meters at high frequency. The real-time data obtained is then analyzed using artificial intelligence (AI) to ensure precise, data-driven and future-proof planning of your supply network.
IoT (Internet of Things) is revolutionizing water supply through intelligent networking. Instead of relying on an expensive, permanently installed radio network (such as LoRaWAN gateways, which have to be installed everywhere in the city), waterloo AirRead OnBoard transforms existing vehicles into mobile radio receivers. During routine trips through the supplied area, the waterloo AirRead OnBoard radio receiver obtains consumption data and alarms from the radio meters.
Meter reading has never been easier! Discover how water suppliers and local authorities can upgrade their existing fleet of vehicles to intelligent, mobile data collectors for wireless meter data in just a few simple steps.
Simply install the waterloo AirRead OnBoard Receiver in a regularly used vehicle in your fleet. The device is already preconfigured and ready for immediate use.
While driving, the waterloo AirRead OnBoard Receiver automatically reads all accessible radio meters in the vicinity and receives meter readings and other important status signals.
The radio meter data received is automatically transferred to the waterloo cloud and is immediately available for viewing. With the AI-supported analysis and smart alarm management of waterloo AirRead iQ, you can keep an eye on all messages and thus react faster and plan better.
Would you like to read your radio water meters more than once a year and do more with the data obtained than just billing? With waterloo AirRead OnBoard, you have a cost-effective and practical solution for smart, mobile radio reading. All without expensive wireless networks.
You are not dependent on local providers; there are no network usage fees.
No investment in expensive fixed radio networks. The water supplier's existing logistics are used.
Compact plug-and-play module, quickly installed in your regular vehicle fleet and ready for immediate use.
More and more utilities are using radio meters or retrofitting their old electricity, gas, heat and water meters with radio modules. These radio meters are the backbone of the new digital infrastructure. They send their consumption data to central servers via special, permanently installed IoT networks (such as LoRaWAN, NB-IoT or MIOTY). The switch to radio meters makes it possible to query consumption data in real time. This continuous data synchronization is the basis for effective water loss management. Suppliers can react quickly to unusual deviations, detect leaks at an early stage and precisely locate their position.
Wireless meter reading promises efficiency and precise meter data, but the reality is often different: High investments in fixed radio networks, patchy coverage in rural or urban areas and dependence on network operators and their usage fees slow down many water suppliers.
With waterloo AirRead OnBoard , we are presenting an alternative that enables water suppliers and local authorities to manage their own mobile radio network for collecting meter data – flexibly and cost-effectively.
Our waterloo software uses mobile radio network equipment that integrates seamlessly into the existing routines of water utilities and municipalities. The waterloo AirRead OnBoard radio receiver is flexibly installed in municipal vehicles – such as refuse collection vehicles, buses or maintenance vehicles that regularly cross the supply area anyway. As soon as the vehicle is within range (drive-by principle), the system automatically collects all relevant meter data (meter reading, alarms) and forwards it for further processing. This turns every journey into an efficient reading tour.
