Water

For water, we measure how much you use and the early signs of trouble, leaks, bursts and pressure problems among them.

1 · What we measure

Water is usually billed on volume alone, but the value of metering it is in what the flow pattern reveals. Consumption that never settles to zero overnight, when a site should be still, is the classic sign of a leak or a running valve, and the longer it goes unseen the more it costs. Tank and reservoir level shows whether storage is keeping up with demand, and stops a pump running dry or a reservoir overflowing. Pressure points to the same faults from another angle: a steady drop can mean a burst or a blockage building.

Because the readings are continuous rather than a meter read once a month, a leak shows up as it starts in Triggers and alerts, and the metered volume can be checked against the municipal invoice in Bill verification.

2 · How it's measured

Water is metered by reading the pulse output of your existing flow meters: a pulse sensor counts each pulse and the platform turns it into volume and flow. Tank and reservoir levels come from a level sensor. How often these report depends on the device: a battery-powered sensor out at the pipe or tank reports less often than a wired one, anywhere from a few minutes up to about twelve hours, to make its battery last. It counts every pulse in between regardless, so your total volume stays exact; the interval only sets how finely you see the flow change over time.

Reading the pulse output means the meter you already have stays in place, with no replacement and no need to interrupt supply to fit the sensor. The same approach works on a bulk municipal meter, a borehole, or a sub-meter on an internal line.

3 · Hardware

The devices behind it:

• Pulse sensor, counts the pulses from your flow meter and turns them into volume and flow.
• Water-level sensor, reads tank, dam and reservoir level from a pressure sensor.

Full specs, comms and certifications live in the Hardware section.

4 · Reports it feeds

Water is its own product on the platform, so it runs through every report except the three that are electricity-specific (power factor, tariff comparison and time of use):

• Dashboard and Consumption breakdown, for use and flow at a glance and across the hierarchy.
• Cost breakdown, Cost allocation and Bill verification, where the volume is priced against your tariff, split across areas or tenants, and checked against the municipal bill.
• Technical analysis and Charting, for flow and pressure in detail and plotted against anything else.
• Data download, for the raw readings.
• Triggers & alerts, where an alert on flow catches a leak or a burst the moment it starts.

5 · Extracting the data

Every water reading is yours to take off the platform, three ways:

• API, to pull readings live into your own systems.
• AI-ready data & exports, a structured payload a model or agent can read directly.
• File export, the same readings as a plain file in the format you need.

Retention, roles and access, and security are covered in the Data and integrations section.

6 · Common questions