Custom Solutions

Utility Metering Platform

Utilities read meters remotely, and this platform is where those readings land. It speaks to meters over a dozen different protocols, stores every reading, raises an alarm when something looks wrong, plans the routes for technicians who still read on foot, and hands finished data to the utility's billing system.

It carries around half a million meters and tens of millions of readings, so speed is a feature in its own right. When the overview screens began taking minutes to load, we rebuilt the queries behind them and brought them back to about ten seconds — without adding a single database index, because the customer's rules didn't allow one.

Technicians in the field use an Android app we wrote for the same system. It works with no signal at all: the day's route, the meters and the readings live on the phone, maps included, and sync when the phone comes back. It reads meters over Bluetooth, over a cable, or by a tap of NFC — the protocol know-how behind it is ours.

~500,000 METERS • 38M+ READINGS • 10+ METER PROTOCOLS • OFFLINE ANDROID APP

Access Control & Attendance

Doors, turnstiles and terminals decide who gets into a building, and the same records tell HR who was at work. The system holds the people, their cards and fingerprints, the areas they may enter and the hours they may enter them, and turns the day's comings and goings into the figures payroll needs.

The original platform had been running since 2012, talking to the readers on the wall through software we wrote ourselves. We have now rebuilt it from the ground up: a modular backend, single sign-on, a new interface, and a service that keeps people and departments in step with the client's HR system — while the doors kept working throughout.

DOORS AND TERMINALS • CARDS AND FINGERPRINTS • ATTENDANCE AND PAYROLL • SSO AND HR SYNC