Automatic Meter Readings

[nathan]

Hi All,

 

Bit of a strange one this and forgive me if this isn't in the correct forum.

 

I'm looking at building a Lorawan network at each of our schools with various sensors, i'm happy with setting up the gateway and generic sensors but we would like to grab live meter readings from our gas/water/electricity supply. We'll use this data for;

 

- Educational purposes with the children.

- Allow schools to benchmark their usage and use additional data such a temp to understand their usage.

- Early warning system - in the past we've had a burst water pipe during a school holiday. Constant high usage could of altered staff to an issue.

 

From the Lora gateways we'll be feeding this data into Zabbix (we already use this trust wide for monitoring) and can use Grafan as a front end for staff.

 

Our main issue is that we are not experienced in the metering side and so i'm looking for a company to work with to supply/fit equipment on the meters. I've found one in meteringtech.com but need to find some others. Has anyone else gone down this path or have any contacts at suppliers?

[mavhc]

If you have smart meters can you get your own consumer access device paired into the smart meter zigbee network?