prepaid water meter system with STS Token and LoRa Remote Reading
A prepaid water meter system lets a water utility or a property operator collect payment before water is used, and Kaifeng Xintai Valve Co., Ltd. supplies the Lora-Remotely-Reading-Split-Keypad-Prepaid-STS-Water-Meter for this application. The product page lists the meter under the AMR STS Prepaid Water Meter category. The system is built around the STS standard and a split keypad interface unit.
The STS standard is an open architecture introduced in South Africa in 1993 for the transfer of prepayment tokens, and it was later published by the IEC as IEC62055-41 and IEC62055-51. In a prepaid water meter system the water credit or volume is transferred with a 20-digit token, so no external data transfer media is needed. The page states that components from different prepayment system manufacturers can interoperate under the standard.
The system described on the page includes smart water metering with velocity, volumetric or ultrasonic meters, a split customer interface unit for meter reading and keypad entry, and vending or payment channels. The prepaid mode can be switched to postpaid, and water can be purchased at appointed agencies by POS or cash, by mobile phone through an app or USSD, or by electronic payment.
For a prepaid water meter system project, the buyer should confirm the meter type, the caliber, the communication method and the number of customer interface units. The page lists LoRa remote reading for this model, and the buyer should confirm the network and the head-end software with the supplier. The valve control and the token vending process should also be tested before the system is rolled out to end users.
The product page describes the meter as suitable for revenue collection and consumer management. A utility or a property manager should confirm the tariff structure, the low credit warning setting and the debt collection rules with the supplier, because these settings are part of the prepaid water meter system configuration and affect how customers recharge.
For a quotation on the prepaid water meter system, contact Kaifeng Xintai Valve Co., Ltd. by email at info@xintaimeter.com or XintaiValve@163.com. The prepaid meter WhatsApp number is +8615537820136, the smart meter number is +8613693789508 and the after-sales number is +8615610121621.
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