Security
ThingsBoard protects your data with industry-standard encryption algorithms like RSA and ECDSA. Secure communication is ensured via TLS (TCP) and DTLS (UDP). Role-based access control and audit logs further enhance platform security.
Water metering
Water is one of our most critical resources, and managing its distribution and consumption is key for sustainable urban development, utility cost control, and infrastructure maintenance. For this purpose, the ThingsBoard platform is an ideal choice, offering powerful capabilities for real-time monitoring, alarms, visualization, and analytics.
Traditional water metering methods often fall short in providing real-time data, accurate billing, and predictive maintenance insights. By leveraging connected sensors and intelligent dashboards, organizations can unlock powerful insights into water usage, detect anomalies like leaks, and automate alarm systems. At the core of these solutions is ThingsBoard, a flexible IoT platform enabling the collection, processing, and visualization of telemetry data from water meters in real time.
This ThingsBoard-powered water metering solution provides complete real-time visibility into water usage, instant response to anomalies, and valuable analytics for long-term infrastructure planning. Scalable across municipalities, residential complexes, and commercial facilities, it offers a powerful tool for smart and efficient water resource management.
How it works
Solution structure of water metering use case
ThingsBoard seamlessly integrates with IoT-enabled water meters that collect real-time data on consumption, temperature, and battery level, sending it over wireless networks such as LoRaWAN, NB-IoT, and LTE for processing.
The platform stores this data, applies intelligent rules to trigger alerts, and visualizes everything through intuitive dashboards for immediate operational insights.
Interface insights
Dashboard structure of water metering solution
The ThingsBoard water metering dashboard is structured into dedicated states, each focusing on a key aspect of system monitoring, control, and analysis. Below is a breakdown of each state with its purpose and content:
This view provides a real-time snapshot of system-wide metrics, such as total water consumed in the current week, active/inactive device counts, and any low battery alerts. An interactive map shows meter locations, while bar charts and alarm lists offer instant visibility into daily usage and critical threshold breaches.
Designed for trend analysis, this state allows users to compare historical and current water consumption patterns over the week. It helps identify usage spikes or efficiency improvements by showing data from both the present and the previous intervals.
This dashboard displays all registered water meters with essential metadata like latest readings, status, and leak detection. Users can manage device information, monitor their real-time performance, and quickly respond to technical issues. Additionally, this view allows users to add new devices by entering their serial number and metadata, edit existing device details, change geolocation parameters by dragging a map marker, and configure alarm thresholds for consumption, battery, or inactivity detection.
Each water meter is associated with a specific customer profile, allowing for individualized usage tracking and customer service. The dashboard enables administrators to add or update customer contact details and manage meter assignments.
This critical interface aggregates all triggered alarms with timestamps, originators, and severity levels. Operators can quickly acknowledge or dismiss alerts, ensuring rapid incident response and system reliability.
Here, administrators configure alarm thresholds (e.g., daily/weekly consumption, battery level) and notification preferences. The system supports both email and SMS alerts to ensure stakeholders are promptly informed.
Each device has its own dedicated view showing granular consumption data by hour, daily/weekly totals, and battery health. It includes editable location mapping and detailed metadata, enabling localized control and diagnostics. Additionally, each dashboard displays device-specific contact information for the owner, facilitating support and communication, as well as a photo section that allows users to upload or update an image of the physical device for visual identification and verification.
ThingsBoard provides individual dashboards tailored for end customers, allowing them to monitor only their assigned water meters. This ensures data privacy while empowering users with full visibility into their personal consumption, device status, and alert history.
The backend logic of the solution is driven by ThingsBoard rule chains, which handle incoming telemetry from devices and automate alarm routing, threshold checks, and notification dispatch. These visual flowcharts allow platform administrators to customize workflows based on device status, tenant or customer settings, and alarm types, ensuring flexibility and scalability of the solution.
Total overview state
This view provides a real-time snapshot of system-wide metrics, such as total water consumed in the current week, active/inactive device counts, and any low battery alerts. An interactive map shows meter locations, while bar charts and alarm lists offer instant visibility into daily usage and critical threshold breaches.
Analytics state
Designed for trend analysis, this state allows users to compare historical and current water consumption patterns over the week. It helps identify usage spikes or efficiency improvements by showing data from both the present and the previous intervals.
Devices state
This dashboard displays all registered water meters with essential metadata like latest readings, status, and leak detection. Users can manage device information, monitor their real-time performance, and quickly respond to technical issues. Additionally, this view allows users to add new devices by entering their serial number and metadata, edit existing device details, change geolocation parameters by dragging a map marker, and configure alarm thresholds for consumption, battery, or inactivity detection.
Customers state
Each water meter is associated with a specific customer profile, allowing for individualized usage tracking and customer service. The dashboard enables administrators to add or update customer contact details and manage meter assignments.
Alarms state
This critical interface aggregates all triggered alarms with timestamps, originators, and severity levels. Operators can quickly acknowledge or dismiss alerts, ensuring rapid incident response and system reliability.
Settings state
Here, administrators configure alarm thresholds (e.g., daily/weekly consumption, battery level) and notification preferences. The system supports both email and SMS alerts to ensure stakeholders are promptly informed.
Individual device dashboards
Each device has its own dedicated view showing granular consumption data by hour, daily/weekly totals, and battery health. It includes editable location mapping and detailed metadata, enabling localized control and diagnostics. Additionally, each dashboard displays device-specific contact information for the owner, facilitating support and communication, as well as a photo section that allows users to upload or update an image of the physical device for visual identification and verification.
Customer-specific dashboards
ThingsBoard provides individual dashboards tailored for end customers, allowing them to monitor only their assigned water meters. This ensures data privacy while empowering users with full visibility into their personal consumption, device status, and alert history.
Rule chains: data processing logic
The backend logic of the solution is driven by ThingsBoard rule chains, which handle incoming telemetry from devices and automate alarm routing, threshold checks, and notification dispatch. These visual flowcharts allow platform administrators to customize workflows based on device status, tenant or customer settings, and alarm types, ensuring flexibility and scalability of the solution.
Versatile implementation
Applications of water metering solution
The water metering approach can be easily adapted to various other sectors
Municipal water services
By using IoT-based water metering, municipalities can automate meter readings and billing processes, gain insight into consumption trends across entire cities, and react instantly to issues such as leaks or overuse.
Smart buildings
Water metering in smart buildings enables facility managers to fine-tune plumbing infrastructure, minimize waste through real-time monitoring, and improve the overall experience and sustainability for occupants.
Agriculture & irrigation
Farmers can leverage real-time data to optimize irrigation schedules, reduce unnecessary water usage, and improve crop yields while maintaining environmental responsibility.
Industrial facilities
Industries benefit from accurate water monitoring to stay compliant with strict environmental standards and to manage utility costs more effectively through predictive consumption insights.
Hospitality & resorts
Hotels and resorts can monitor water usage across various zones or guest areas to implement sustainable practices, reduce operating costs, and engage guests in eco-conscious initiatives.
Municipal water services
By using IoT-based water metering, municipalities can automate meter readings and billing processes, gain insight into consumption trends across entire cities, and react instantly to issues such as leaks or overuse.
Industrial facilities
Industries benefit from accurate water monitoring to stay compliant with strict environmental standards and to manage utility costs more effectively through predictive consumption insights.
Smart buildings
Water metering in smart buildings enables facility managers to fine-tune plumbing infrastructure, minimize waste through real-time monitoring, and improve the overall experience and sustainability for occupants.
Hospitality & resorts
Hotels and resorts can monitor water usage across various zones or guest areas to implement sustainable practices, reduce operating costs, and engage guests in eco-conscious initiatives.
Agriculture & irrigation
Farmers can leverage real-time data to optimize irrigation schedules, reduce unnecessary water usage, and improve crop yields while maintaining environmental responsibility.
ThingsBoard advantages
Summary of water metering solution
With a low-code approach, intuitive dashboards, and comprehensive alerting mechanisms, ThingsBoard serves as a cornerstone for digital transformation in water resource management. Whether you're scaling for a city or optimizing a single facility, this solution adapts to your needs— one drop at a time.