IoT Home Smart Cloud
What We Built
HSC (Home Smart Cloud) replaces manual meter reading with two custom boards that read electricity, water, gas, and heating meters remotely and stream the data to a cloud dashboard.
The Challenge
Reading meters by hand doesn’t scale. A technician walks the site, writes down numbers, and someone else enters them into a billing system days or weeks later, with the errors that process invites. Industrial sites need consumption broken down by workshop, floor, or building; utility companies need it per apartment; retail and office landlords need it per tenant. Businesses with locations in multiple cities need all of that in one dashboard, not a spreadsheet per site.
Sensor Node
A separate node sits on each meter, built around an Atmega328. It reads the meter’s analog pulse output, converts it to a usable value, and transmits it over a LoRa radio at 868 MHz to the central node. Running on a lithium battery, the node is sized to sit next to a meter without rewiring.
Central Node
One central node per site, built around an ESP8266, receives readings over LoRa from every sensor node in range, processes them, and forwards them to the cloud over Wi-Fi or GPRS — whichever backhaul the site has.
Cloud Dashboard
Readings land in the cloud as consumption graphs per meter, so a facility manager sees usage trends directly instead of reconciling paper logs.
Where It’s Used
- Industrial sites split consumption by workshop, floor, or machine, to catch equipment that’s burning more energy than it should.
- Utility and housing management companies read every unit’s meter automatically instead of sending someone door to door.
- Retail and office landlords meter individual stores or floors inside one building.
- Multi-city operators — a restaurant or retail chain — see every location’s consumption in one dashboard instead of per-site reporting.
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