Green Planet Case Study

Ztech supplies turbine flow meters to one of the largest water utilities in Gujarat, there utility customer wanted them to provide real-time connectivity between their software and the water meter. They were also getting enquiry for a smart water meter from a lot of their existing customers too. One of their competitors had already launched its smart meter solution. They were short on time to launch such a water meter. Ztech wanted results in few weeks instead of months. They already had an water metering application but that was only designed for manual entries or hand held equipments.

Ztech called up SenseGrow and they immediately set up a call with one of their hardware vendors and Ztech were able to kickstart the project within 24 hours of calling them. They along with their device partner were able to provide us a prototype within 2 weeks. Ztech had a working model in the third week of calling them. It took them a week more to finalize the hardware form factor and how to integrate InstaMsg into our billing application. Within 5 weeks Ztech were doing a pilot with one of our customer.

• [Efficiency Improvement - Time To Market]
  Simplified integration with their billing system that they supply with their water meters. InstaMsg restful api made integration faster.
• [Data Management - Data Analysis]
  Real-time interval data from Ztech water meters enables their customers to analyze consumptions patterns. Alerts are sent to consumers when water consumption pattern is different than the normal consumption. This simple feature itself has helped save mill
• [Efficiency Improvement - R&D]
  InstaMsg clients are open source and support a variety of chipsets and programming language. This enables Ztech to chose the hardware chipset of our choice. Ztech started this a Wavecom chipset but later moved its solution to a Telit chipset that supporte

• Today Ztech has more than 800 meters in the field using InstaMsg with uptime of 99.9%.

• The per meter cost is so low that Ztech has in build the cost of InstaMsg cloud service for the entire life of the meter into their product cost.