Real malls. Real data.
MeterX was founded in 2018 by operators who had spent years inside South African malls watching good energy data get lost between the incomer and the tenant bill. We built the company — and then the platform — to fix that.
- Founded
- 2018
- Recovered
- R 8 m+
- Live sites
- 7
- Meters
- 260+
Seven years of SA metering experience
Client overcharges identified in check billing
Shopping centres across South Africa
Running on the MeterX platform today
Every utility, accurately billed. Every time.
Our mission is simple — make sure every kWh, kVA, litre and rand that flows through a shopping centre is measured, attributed and billed on the correct tariff. If it can't be audited, it shouldn't be invoiced.
South African utility billing is complicated by design. NERSA approves one set of tariffs on the MYPD cycle, municipalities publish another on the MFMA year, landlords are left to recover costs through leases that usually pre-date the current regulation, and tenants get whatever spreadsheet the property manager had time to produce that week.
MeterX replaces that spreadsheet with a versioned tariff library, a real-time ingest pipeline and a billing engine that only publishes numbers it can defend. Seven years in, we have recovered R 8 million-plus in client overcharges through check billing alone — money that was never going to show up on a spreadsheet.
Four rules we don't break.
These four principles shaped the platform — and they show up in every code path, every policy, every bill we produce.
Raw data is the source of truth
Our platform reads raw interval readings for every audit, health check and bill. Aggregates are caches, never inputs.
Reproducible, locked, auditable
Approved billing runs snapshot the tariff, the tenancy and the readings. Bills remain reproducible months later.
Compliance-first
NERSA MYPD cycles, MFMA municipal years, power-factor magnitude conventions — we follow the standards, not shortcuts.
Every kWh must balance
Incomer vs tenant reconciliation is surfaced continuously. Losses, gaps and anomalies become exceptions, not surprises.
Seven years, one idea.
From a single shopping centre to a national metering platform — the milestones along the way.
- 2018
MeterX founded
Started with a single shopping centre, a set of CT-based meters, and a simple promise: every kWh must balance.
- 2020
Check-billing programme
Forensic review of supplier invoices launched. Over the following years this alone recovers R 8 million+ in client overcharges.
- 2022
IoT M12CH rollout
12-channel IoT meters deployed as the standard hardware — one device per DB, every phase and channel captured.
- 2025
MeterX platform
Purpose-built SaaS platform consolidates ingest, reconciliation, estimation and billing on a single audited stack.
- 2026
Water metering
Water sub-metering added to the same reconciliation and billing pipeline — one invoice, every utility.
Built around malls — by the people who run them.
Metering is a niche. Shopping-centre metering is a niche inside a niche. We don't moonlight between sectors — mall landlords, residential estates and their tenants are our entire business, and the platform reflects that focus.
- Every code path was written against real mall data, not a generic sub-metering template.
- Supply-authority quirks (Eskom direct vs municipality vs mixed-supply malls) are handled natively.
- Hardware, firmware, ingest, platform, billing and support — one accountable team.
- We install and commission meters ourselves; no reliance on a third-party integrator.
- Check-billing expertise — we've recovered R 8 m+ by auditing supplier invoices.
- Audit-grade documentation: every tariff version, every meter change and every estimate logged.
Shopping-centre focus
Malls, strip malls and mixed-use centres across South Africa.
Own the stack
Hardware, firmware, ingest, platform — one team, one accountability.
Operator-led
Founders who ran metering programmes before building the software.
Put your portfolio on the platform.
Talk to our team about how MeterX can meter your centre, audit your current supplier bills and put every tenant on the correct tariff.