Every utility. One screen.
MeterX delivers the full span of utility metering services for South African shopping centres and estates — specified, installed, ingested, reconciled and billed by one team, on one platform.
Electricity metering.
From the Eskom or municipal incomer down to the individual tenant breaker — every phase, every channel, every 30-minute bucket.
- 12-channel IoT M12CH meters as standard, 3-phase 4-wire compliant.
- Landlord incomer, distribution-board and per-store sub-meters.
- Raw 1-minute interval data captured to a TimescaleDB hypertable.
- Time-of-use, demand (kVA) and IBT block billing supported natively.
- Bidirectional metering for import / export handled on the same device.
Water metering.
Municipal and borehole water sub-metering integrated with the same reconciliation and billing pipeline as your electricity data.
- Pulsed and telemetric water meter integration.
- Per-tenant recovery with incomer balance and leak flagging.
- Single monthly tenant statement covering electricity and water.
- Municipal tariff engine handles step tariffs and free basic water.
Solar PV metering.
Separate the sunshine from the supply. Generation, self-consumption and export metered independently and attributed against the incomer.
- Generation metering at the PV AC combiner.
- Self-consumption vs export split reconciled against the incomer.
- Grid-presence detection (CH10) to attribute kWh by source.
- Tenant billing adjusted for landlord-owned PV buy-back arrangements.
Diesel genset metering.
Recover the true cost of keeping the mall lit during load shedding — metered kWh, tagged by grid-outage window, correlated to diesel consumption.
- Genset-run window detection using CH10 grid presence.
- kWh supplied during genset runs tagged for separate tariff treatment.
- Diesel-cost normalisation for fair recovery from tenants.
- Run-time alerts and exceptions for maintenance scheduling.
BESS metering.
Battery energy storage changes who pays for what at every hour of the day. We separate charging, discharging and round-trip losses cleanly.
- Charge / discharge metering at the BESS AC terminals.
- Round-trip efficiency computed per cycle.
- Multi-source attribution: grid-charged vs solar-charged discharge.
- Tenant kWh tagged by contributing source on the bill.
Synthetic metering.
Not every meter needs to exist in hardware. MeterX creates virtual audit meters that reconcile the physical ones and catch the kWh that goes missing between them.
- Incomer vs tenant balance — a virtual "common area" meter that never lies.
- Channels can participate in multiple meters (store + synthetic audit).
- Losses, cable theft and metering errors surface as exceptions.
- Zero additional hardware — synthetic meters are derived at query time.
Utility check billing.
We audit your Eskom and municipal invoices against the tariff that should have been applied — and then we pursue the money back. Since 2018 we've recovered more than R 8 million in client overcharges.
- Line-by-line review of supplier invoices against NERSA / municipal rates.
- Historical back-billing recovery through supplier disputes.
- Ongoing monitoring so errors are caught on month one, not year three.
- Tenant rebilling on the correct tariff — no compounding markups.
Billing audits.
A full forensic review of your landlord-to-tenant recovery. We reconcile every kWh, every litre and every line item against the data we can prove.
- Historical tenant-billing review with audit report deliverable.
- Incomer vs tenant reconciliation going back to available interval data.
- Power-factor penalty audit and magnitude-convention compliance.
- POPIA-compliant handover of all working data to client auditors.
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