The Challenge
Unlike traditional multi-tenanted models where consumption drives costs, marina berths often employ flat-rate charging, leading to inequity and dissatisfaction among tenants. Manual meter reading, data processing, and billing for individual meters in these environments are time-consuming, costly, and error-prone due to geographical challenges and complex infrastructure.
- Revenue losses due to day rate power pricing model
- Inability to understand power usage and demand
- Growing demand for flexible, digitized infrastructure
- Impracticalities of manual energy meter readings
- Installation costs for hard wired solutions
- Telemetry and metering equipment expensive to retrofit
- Serviceability of metering and telemetry equipment
Marina Management: Simplified Billing Solution
Platform
- WideSky EDGE
- Specialized Dashboard for Marinas
- Integration with industry specific platform
Hardware
- WideSky Hubs
- LPA Smart Meters – both single and three phase
- Load Shed capabilities
Services
- Engineering Design
- Integration Services
- Managed Services
- Hardware Customization & Procurement
Our Solution
WideSky is helping marina managers across Australia digitize their facilities, gain real-time visibility over power and water use at every berth and enable automation within the booking and coordination of their marinas.
WideSky developed a simplified, cloud based, billing data solution designed to meet the complex needs of Marinas.
Solution features and benefits:
- Cloud-based portfolio solution that supports sites in diverse and remote locations.
- Compact electricity and water metering with full NMI accreditation, to meet pedestal size constraints.
- AEMO accredited meter data solution, ensuring customer billing is compliant to energy regulations.
- Whole of site billing data solution that accommodates all ancillary marina facilities, including shops, maintenance areas and storage sheds.
- Integration with a range of Marina Management Systems for simplified access to data.
- Ability to process on the spot transactions through the incumbent Marina Management System.
- Remote on-off control of power and water supplies for simplified and immediate check-in and check-out at reception, eliminating theft and increasing safety by preventing overloads and leak detection.
- Real-time status of all pedestal-based assets, accessible anywhere via a mobile device.
- Remote firmware updates across the wireless network.
- Robust, self-healing, bank level, wireless mesh infrastructure to accommodate the complex and harsh environment of marinas, where cabling is often not possible.
- Auto rerouting, eliminating all total system communications failures.
- Onsite data storage to ensure data is never lost.
Implementation
For simplified implementation, factory commissioning is completed in the pedestal manufacturer’s workshop. Sites can be commissioned remotely, a significant benefit derived from the use of the autonomous, mesh nature of the WideSky Hub network.
This packaged, turnkey solution has been in use since 2019 and adopted by Tasport, Shell Cove and Gold Coast City Marina. These sites typically support 70 to 100 customers with practically unlimited growth capacity.
