Meter Selection Help
Pick a category. We will walk you through the decision criteria and a recommended approach for your project.
Electric Sensors & Meters
Electrical energy monitoring through a variety of products at a mix of price points — main utility, sub-mains, branch circuits, and equipment-level loads.
Natural Gas Meters
Insertion thermal mass and inline natural gas meters for buildings, HVAC heating, boilers, cooking, and heat-treat processes.
Ultrasonic Water Meters
Ultrasonic and inline water meters for incoming water, sewer discharge, ingredient water, cooling tower, and sanitation flows.
BTU Thermal Energy Meters
Ultrasonic and in-flow BTU meters for closed-loop central chilled and heating water plants, with delta-T thermal load calculation.
Compressed Air Meters
Thermal mass and ultrasonic compressed air metering for generation, distribution, and end-use visibility — leak detection included.
Steam Meters
Vortex, turbine, DP, Coriolis, and ultrasonic steam metering for production, distribution, and point-of-use visibility.
Automation & LoRaWAN Integration
Cloud or on-premise meter data integration via Tridium Niagara JACE 9000 and Panoramic Power — Modbus, BACnet, LoRaWAN, and pulse.
Data Dashboarding
Dashboards that integrate with existing Rockwell, Siemens, and Schneider SCADA, or run as a new frontend on the Tridium Niagara JACE 9000.
Custom Reporting, Tenant AMR & Billing
Submeter-based tenant billing across electric, gas, water, steam, chilled/heating water, and compressed air at multi-tenant campuses.
Pulse Meter Support
Pulse counter integration for existing electric, gas, and water meters — KYZ, Form A/C, reed switch, and open-collector outputs.
New: LoRaWAN for submetering
Wireless, long-range, battery-powered meters are changing what's practical in retrofit and multi-site deployments. Learn what LoRaWAN is, how gateways and end-devices work, and which of our supported brands ship LoRaWAN-native hardware.
Read the LoRaWAN guide →Where each category fits
A short orientation on every meter category before you dive into the full selection guide.
Electric Sensors & Meters
Electric submetering is the anchor of nearly every smart building technology stack — it drives ASHRAE 90.1 §8.4.3 compliance, tenant cost recovery, IECC C405.12 monitoring by load category, and real-time demand management. Options range from wireless self-powered Panoramic Power sensors for retrofit branch circuits to revenue-grade ANSI C12.20 Class 0.2 socket meters at the utility boundary, plus Leviton, Accuenergy, and Fluke hardware for panel and equipment-level visibility.
Full selection guide →Natural Gas Meters
Natural gas submetering underpins Scope 1 emissions reporting and process-cost allocation in manufacturing, healthcare, and multi-tenant campuses. Insertion thermal-mass meters (Sage, Sierra, Fox) are the cost-effective choice above 2-inch supply pipe, while rotary inline meters and utility pulse integration cover smaller lines, boilers, cooking equipment, and heat-treat processes.
Full selection guide →Ultrasonic Water Meters
Water submetering serves multifamily tenant billing, industrial ingredient tracking, cooling-tower makeup, and sewer-discharge measurement. Ultrasonic clamp-on flow meters retrofit around live pipe without shutdowns, electromagnetic meters handle wastewater and conductive process streams, and Neptune / Master Meter / Next Century mechanical and ultrasonic AMR meters cover residential and commercial billing.
Full selection guide →BTU Thermal Energy Meters
BTU thermal energy meters measure the delta-T and volumetric flow in chilled-water, hot-water, and glycol loops so campus and district-energy plants can bill tenants and validate central-plant efficiency. Ultrasonic flow paired with insertion thermal wells is the workhorse for tenant-billing-grade accuracy; electromagnetic and vortex options handle conductive or high-velocity industrial branches.
Full selection guide →Compressed Air Meters
Compressed air is one of the most expensive utilities in manufacturing and one of the leakiest — undetected leaks routinely reach 20–30% of generation. Thermal mass flow meters (VP Instruments, Sage, Sierra) at the compressor discharge and major branches turn plant-air consumption into billable demand per line and expose leaks fast enough to justify weekend service calls.
Full selection guide →Steam Meters
Steam metering supports thermal cost allocation, boiler-plant Scope 1 tracking, and process billing in food, pharma, and district energy. Vortex meters with multivariable pressure/temperature compensation cover most saturated and superheated applications; Coriolis meters take on critical high-value steam; DP/orifice remains the workhorse where pressure class and budget dictate.
Full selection guide →Automation & LoRaWAN Integration
Meter data integration is the step that determines whether a metering project turns into an energy intelligence program or a folder of orphaned datasheets. Tridium Niagara JACE 9000 controllers unify Modbus RTU/TCP, BACnet MSTP/IP, and pulse devices for BACnet-integrated smart building deployments, while Panoramic Power and LoRaWAN gateways (Milesight, Robustel) enable rapid cloud-only rollouts across multi-site portfolios.
Full selection guide →Data Dashboarding
Dashboarding is where operators, executives, and tenants actually consume metering data. We integrate into existing Rockwell, Siemens, and Schneider SCADA where those systems are already in place, or stand up a Niagara-based frontend or PowerRadar tenancy with role-based views, compliance reports (LEED, ENERGY STAR, ASHRAE), and 36+ month data retention for code-compliance evidence.
Full selection guide →Custom Reporting, Tenant AMR & Billing
Tenant AMR and submeter-based billing recovers energy costs at multi-tenant, multi-site campuses that would otherwise be absorbed by the landlord or spread inequitably by pro-rata square footage. Revenue-grade electric meters, water AMR encoders, and thermal (BTU/steam) submeters feed automated billing exports into Yardi, MRI, RealPage, and property-accounting stacks.
Full selection guide →Pulse Meter Support
Many facilities already have meters with pulse outputs (KYZ, Form A/C, reed switch, open-collector) that were never connected to a data collection system. Multi-channel pulse counters — often LoRaWAN-based for wireless retrofit — accumulate those outputs, apply the correct K-factor, and land the data in PowerRadar or Niagara without replacing existing hardware, dramatically cutting cost and deployment time.
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