Swedish network operator and massive IoT provider Netmore aims to deliver end-to-end smart gas metering that provides real-time data, asset management and operational efficiency for utilities across the UK.

To do this, it is working with Green Frog Asset Management, a specialist in industrial and commercial utility services, and Sensational Systems, an IoT consultancy and platform integration expert.

The companies showcased their collaboration and offerings at last week’s All Energy Expo at the SEC in Glasgow.

Green Frog’s decision to adopt LoRaWan and partner with Netmore was driven by the technology’s performance in utility-grade deployments and Netmore’s carrier-grade network coverage across the UK. Sensational Systems has provided for Green Frog a complete enablement layer for smart utilities, including advising on optimal device selection for utility monitoring, building the underlying configuration profiles and delivering application capabilities to bring smart utility services to market.

The fully managed result is capable of collecting data from some of the UK’s most demanding environments. Beyond data capture, Green Frog’s custom-built analytics platform aggregates and processes consumption data across entire user portfolios, delivering near real-time visibility of energy usage, associated costs and carbon emissions.

An AI-driven data validation and health-checking capability continuously monitors incoming meter data to detect anomalies, gaps or inconsistencies that could lead to inaccurate billing, enabling businesses to move from reactive to proactive energy management, with accurate, trustworthy insight.

“LoRaWan is positioned to power a substantial portion of the next wave of gas utility transformation, particularly in Europe where the open-standard, low-cost, long-battery-life profile fits the economics of gas meter deployments extremely well,” said Vadim Lyu, managing director of Netmore (netmoregroup.com) in the UK.

Christian Crackle, technical director of Green Frog (gfam-meters.co.uk), added: “Our customers need energy data they can trust, from every meter, in every location, regardless of how challenging the environment and Netmore and Sensational Systems have enabled us to do that at scale. Combined with our analytics platform and AI-driven data validation, we can now offer utilities end-to-end energy intelligence, moving them from reactive billing to proactive, data-driven energy management.”

And Al Bennett, director of Sensational Systems (sensational.systems), said: “Large-scale IoT deployments succeed or fail on the quality of their foundations, the right devices, correctly configured, on a network that performs. Our role in this partnership has been to ensure that every element of the technology stack is production-ready before it reaches the field. By combining deep LoRaWan device expertise with streamlined deployment support, we have helped both Netmore and Green Frog reduce operational friction and get to value faster.”