The Mile End Bus Depot required a modern energy metering solution to improve billing accuracy and monitor energy, gas, and water consumption in real-time. Existing infrastructure limitations, such as outdated circuits and vast spans between meters, made traditional cabling solutions costly and disruptive.

Our Solution

We deployed WideSky Hub technology.  This wireless solutions utilized the Thread protocol to connect 22 energy meters, one gas meter, and one water meter without extensive cabling.  The system provided real-time data collection and centralized storage in WideSky cloud for remote access and streamlined reporting.

WideSky Hub operates using Thread wireless mesh protocol, which enables meters to communicate without the need for cabling. There were six pieces of hardware installed at the following locations:

• Two hubs at the main switch board
• One hub on a remote distribution board to service two meters and the gas meter
• One hub at the meter hub
• Two hubs functioning as repeaters to bridge the gap between the hubs at the edge of the site.

The hardware, with its two communication ports and pulse inputs, connected to the meters and the interface to the pulsed outputs from the water and gas meters.

The meters were configured offline and remotely, allowing the automatic downloading as soon as each hub registered on the network.

Once the hubs were powered on and connected to the energy meters, data started being collected from the Thread protocol wireless mesh network and routed to WideSky Cloud.