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X2M, through its Japanese subsidiary, won a competitive tender to licence its software for integration with a leading gas and water meter manufacturer in Japan’s gas meters.
They sought a platform provider that supported a data collection, predictive demand and logistics management solution to integrate into its gas meter hardware for marketing to its utility customers.
(a) Residential and commercial bottled gas in Japan is metered. However, without knowledge of how much gas is left in the bottle, customers can run out of gas.
(b) Just-in-case replacement incurs inefficiencies as gas bottles that are partially full are in transit.
(c) Drivers typically don’t use the most efficient route, resulting in larger number of fleet vehicles required and overtime pay.
Created centralised platform to act as point of coordination to remotely monitor usage and residual levels of gas over LTE-M networks.
(d) This usage and residual gas level information shall be available for use by a predictive algorithm to determine when the gas bottle will run out.
(e) Dynamic task lists for the drivers can be generated that minimise time taken to replace and kilometres travelled without the customer ever having to run out of gas.
An initial trial at a large Japanese gas company showed up to 20% logistics cost savings
(f) X2M won the contract in December 2018 to deploy a production meter data management system within Azbil by June 2019 to form the basis of their gas bottle logistics solution.
(g) SaaS license and services contract executed in March 2020.
(h) The rollout under the SaaS licensing contract now exceeds 200,000 devices.
Bottled gas monitoring
Taiwan has 25 regional gas companies supplying gas to residential, commercial and industrial customers.
Several of these gas companies sought a solution that could monitor and control the gas meters in residential apartments. In addition, gas companies wanted a cheap and simple way to record and report on gas pressure at grid stations.
In these high rise buildings, a meter reader travels to each floor and enters each apartment to get to meter on balcony. Residents do not like being disturbed and there have been incidents of theft from apartments.
In the event of a gas leak, a gas company representative needs to visit the apartment to turn off the gas and make it safe.
For small gas grid stations, the gas company has no idea if the pressure is at the correct level and if the pressure conversion is operating correctly.
Delivered a centralised monitoring and control platform to monitor and control the gas meters and grid pressure stations. Communications initially using Zigbee and later using LoraWAN and NBIoT was implemented.
Residential gas meters are monitored and if leaks or pressure issues are detected, the gas meter valve can be turned off.
Monthly billing is performed without any visit to the apartment required.
Pressure is monitored in grid stations and alerts generated if there are pressure issues or if other station alarm conditions arise. Pressure readings are recorded every 15 minutes and provided for analysis.
Several contracts are in place operating through the Chunghwa Telecom and Far EasTone telecommunications networks.
Gas grid pressure monitoring
Residential gas meter monitoring
(a) Underground water meters are difficult to access, particularly in winter when the covers can be frozen over;
(b) Reliance on bill estimation when meters cannot be accessed by meter readers;
(c) Estimation can lead to customer dissatisfaction with billing accuracy; and
(d) Limited detection capability for water leakages.
Meters retrofitted to make them “smart” and communicate with X2M’s IoT platform;
(e) Provides accurate, real time data on usage increasing accuracy of billing;
(f) Big data analytics utilised to monitor irregular patterns of usage and leaks to address water loss and potential social welfare issues
For example in Gochang province following X2M’s technology deployment in March 2018 saw:
Monitoring of Water Meters
Water Monitoring Dashboard
(a) Underground water meters are difficult to access, particularly in winter when the covers can be frozen over;
(b) Reliance on bill estimation when meters cannot be accessed by meter readers;
(c) Estimation can lead to customer dissatisfaction with billing accuracy; and
(d) Limited detection capability for water leakages.
Meters retrofitted to make them “smart” and communicate with X2M’s IoT platform;
(e) Provides accurate, real time data on usage increasing accuracy of billing;
(f) Big data analytics utilised to monitor irregular patterns of usage and leaks to address water loss and potential social welfare issues
For example in Gochang province following X2M’s technology deployment in March 2018 saw:
Azbil Kimmon Co, Ltd (Azbil) is a leading gas and water meter manufacturer in Japan. X2M, through its Japanese subsidiary, won a competitive tender to licence its software for integration with Azbil’s gas meters.
Azbil sought a platform provider that supported a data collection, predictive demand and logistics management solution to integrate into its gas meter hardware for marketing to its utility customers.
(a) Residential and commercial bottled gas in Japan is metered. However, without knowledge of how much gas is left in the bottle, customers can run out of gas.
(b) Just-in-case replacement incurs inefficiencies as gas bottles that are partially full are in transit.
(c) Drivers typically don’t use the most efficient route, resulting in larger number of fleet vehicles required and overtime pay.
Created centralised platform to act as point of coordination to remotely monitor usage and residual levels of gas over LTE-M networks.
(d) This usage and residual gas level information shall be available for use by a predictive algorithm to determine when the gas bottle will run out.
(e) Dynamic task lists for the drivers can be generated that minimise time taken to replace and kilometres travelled without the customer ever having to run out of gas.
An initial trial by Azbil at a large Japanese gas company showed up to 20% logistics cost savings
(f) X2M won the contract in December 2018 to deploy a production meter data management system within Azbil by June 2019 to form the basis of their gas bottle logistics solution.
(g) SaaS license and services contract executed in March 2020.
(h) The rollout under the SaaS licensing contract now exceeds 100,000 devices.
Taiwan has 25 regional gas companies supplying gas to residential, commercial and industrial customers.
Several of these gas companies sought a solution that could monitor and control the gas meters in residential apartments. In addition, gas companies wanted a cheap and simple way to record and report on gas pressure at grid stations.
In these high rise buildings, a meter reader travels to each floor and enters each apartment to get to meter on balcony. Residents do not like being disturbed and there have been incidents of theft from apartments.
In the event of a gas leak, a gas company representative needs to visit the apartment to turn off the gas and make it safe.
For small gas grid stations, the gas company has no idea if the pressure is at the correct level and if the pressure conversion is operating correctly.
Delivered a centralised monitoring and control platform to monitor and control the gas meters and grid pressure stations. Communications using Zigbee and NBIoT was implemented.
Residential gas meters are monitored and if leaks or pressure issues are detected, the gas meter valve can be turned off.
Monthly billing is performed without any visit to the apartment required.
Pressure is monitored in grid stations and alerts generated if there are pressure issues or if other station alarm conditions arise. Pressure readings are recorded every 15 minutes and provided for analysis.
Several contracts are in place operating through the Chunghwa Telecom and Fareastone telecommunications networks.
The Australian Energy market is a huge opportunity for X2M with the Australian energy landscape in crisis — X2M is working on Smart Communities to bring an interconnected solution to provide increased savings to the community and its residents.
X2M is making a meaningful contribution to Australia’s move towards ‘net zero’ via the delivery of innovative energy management solutions for residential, commercial and rural customer environments. X2M will work with land developers to meet their objective of being socially and environmentally responsible through the creation of an ecofriendly and sustainable residential developments.
X2M fully understands that any push towards ‘net zero’ via the provision of clean energy solutions to communities and other customers requires a partner ecosystem. To this end, X2M continues to work on assembling a group of partners to participate in delivering these outcomes.
The X2M Connect and Resi Ventures smart community in Echuca made the evening news.
The 1,000 home McMahon’s Place estate coming to Echuca will be a smart community with a goal of being eco-friendly, supporting sustainability and with lower cost energy for residents.
Under the plan, Resi Ventures has agreed to include certain sustainability equipment into the design standards for the estate and X2M will provide a smart community energy management solution. Homeowners will be able to elect to participate in the estate energy scheme that will be provided through X2M’s ecosystem and will be able to obtain energy savings and other benefits as part of subscription to the scheme.
X2M, through its Japanese subsidiary, won a competitive tender to licence its software for integration with a leading gas and water meter manufacturer in Japan’s gas meters.
They sought a platform provider that supported a data collection, predictive demand and logistics management solution to integrate into its gas meter hardware for marketing to its utility customers.
(a) Residential and commercial bottled gas in Japan is metered. However, without knowledge of how much gas is left in the bottle, customers can run out of gas.
(b) Just-in-case replacement incurs inefficiencies as gas bottles that are partially full are in transit.
(c) Drivers typically don’t use the most efficient route, resulting in larger number of fleet vehicles required and overtime pay.
Created centralised platform to act as point of coordination to remotely monitor usage and residual levels of gas over LTE-M networks.
(d) This usage and residual gas level information shall be available for use by a predictive algorithm to determine when the gas bottle will run out.
(e) Dynamic task lists for the drivers can be generated that minimise time taken to replace and kilometres travelled without the customer ever having to run out of gas.
An initial trial at a large Japanese gas company showed up to 20% logistics cost savings
(f) X2M won the contract in December 2018 to deploy a production meter data management system within Azbil by June 2019 to form the basis of their gas bottle logistics solution.
(g) SaaS license and services contract executed in March 2020.
(h) The rollout under the SaaS licensing contract now exceeds 200,000 devices.
Bottled gas monitoring
Taiwan has 25 regional gas companies supplying gas to residential, commercial and industrial customers.
Several of these gas companies sought a solution that could monitor and control the gas meters in residential apartments. In addition, gas companies wanted a cheap and simple way to record and report on gas pressure at grid stations.
In these high rise buildings, a meter reader travels to each floor and enters each apartment to get to meter on balcony. Residents do not like being disturbed and there have been incidents of theft from apartments.
In the event of a gas leak, a gas company representative needs to visit the apartment to turn off the gas and make it safe.
For small gas grid stations, the gas company has no idea if the pressure is at the correct level and if the pressure conversion is operating correctly.
Delivered a centralised monitoring and control platform to monitor and control the gas meters and grid pressure stations. Communications initially using Zigbee and later using LoraWAN and NBIoT was implemented.
Residential gas meters are monitored and if leaks or pressure issues are detected, the gas meter valve can be turned off.
Monthly billing is performed without any visit to the apartment required.
Pressure is monitored in grid stations and alerts generated if there are pressure issues or if other station alarm conditions arise. Pressure readings are recorded every 15 minutes and provided for analysis.
Several contracts are in place operating through the Chunghwa Telecom and Far EasTone telecommunications networks.
Gas grid pressure monitoring
Residential gas meter monitoring
(a) Underground water meters are difficult to access, particularly in winter when the covers can be frozen over;
(b) Reliance on bill estimation when meters cannot be accessed by meter readers;
(c) Estimation can lead to customer dissatisfaction with billing accuracy; and
(d) Limited detection capability for water leakages.
Meters retrofitted to make them “smart” and communicate with X2M’s IoT platform;
(e) Provides accurate, real time data on usage increasing accuracy of billing;
(f) Big data analytics utilised to monitor irregular patterns of usage and leaks to address water loss and potential social welfare issues
For example in Gochang province following X2M’s technology deployment in March 2018 saw:
Monitoring of Water Meters
Water Monitoring Dashboard
