One metering platform. Four ways to put it to work.
Every Beam product runs on the same prepaid metering core — the difference is who's using it, and what problem they're solving.
Prepaid Smart Metering
The base Beam meter: an STS-compliant prepaid water meter that bills exactly what's used, shuts off gracefully at zero balance, and resumes the moment a customer recharges — no one has to visit the meter to make that happen.
- ＋Recharge by USSD, WhatsApp, Mobile App or WebCustomers top up from whichever channel suits them — no field visit required.
- ＋Graceful cutoffSupply winds down at zero balance instead of cutting abruptly, and resumes the instant a top-up lands.
- ＋Remote connect/disconnectManage supply from the dashboard — no technician dispatched to the meter.
- ＋Three years provenRunning across Beam's installed base for three years as a tested, reliable enterprise metering system.
Sub-Metering
For buildings with one main water connection and multiple occupants — apartments, schools, banks, estates. Beam meters each unit individually, so every occupant pays for exactly what they use instead of splitting an estimated bill.
- ＋Per-unit meteringEach apartment, office or classroom gets its own smart meter reporting independently to the building dashboard.
- ＋No shared-bill disputesUsage and charges are attributable to a single unit, not averaged across the building.
- ＋Building-level viewLandlords see every unit's balance and usage from one dashboard, without visiting the site.
- ＋Tenant self-serviceOccupants top up their own unit directly — no more collecting water money at the door.
AMR & NRW Analytics
Automated meter reading means consumption data reaches the dashboard without anyone walking a route to read a meter by hand. That data surfaces non-revenue water and leakage patterns before they become losses.
- ＋Automated meter readingNo field staff walking routes to read individual meters.
- ＋Non-revenue water trackingLosses and leakage patterns surface in the data, not months later in a reconciliation.
- ＋Multi-site dashboardCompare usage and balances across every metered site from a single screen.
- ＋99.9% measured uptimeThe network Beam's analytics run on has held 99.9% uptime across the installed base.
Utility Integration
Beam plugs into a utility's existing billing operation as the metering layer — not as a reseller. Utilities get prepaid revenue and real-time consumption data without replacing the systems they already run. Two utilities are already onboarded, with three more in active conversations.
- ＋Infrastructure, not resaleBeam supplies the metering and data layer; the utility keeps the customer and billing relationship.
- ＋STS token-standard integrationBuilt to the token standard utility billing systems already expect.
- ＋Prepaid revenue modelMove customers from estimated postpaid billing to metered, prepaid collection.
- ＋Regulatory alignmentBuilt around the Uganda Water Act, with copyright protection and a data protection certificate.
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