Smart metering — gas, water, electricity at scale

The Smart Metering Market

Smart metering is the largest single deployed cellular IoT use case globally. Electricity, gas, water, and heat utilities have shifted from mechanical or RF-mesh meters to cellular-connected smart meters at industrial scale. Europe, China, and India have deployed hundreds of millions of NB-IoT-connected meters. North American utilities have deployed tens of millions of LTE-M meters where AC power is available and additional features (firmware updates, voice support for service techs) matter. Meter manufacturers — Itron, Landis+Gyr, Honeywell, Diehl, Kamstrup — ship dedicated NB-IoT-enabled…