Advanced monitoring devices designed and manufactured by Lithuanian company Axioma have been developed with a clear objective – to help save natural resources, a task more pressing today than ever.
“Axioma Metering” is a major European manufacturer of smart heat and water devices, energy management devices and systems, offering a range of monitoring products for different mediums and reflecting various operational methods: heat meter computers, ultrasonic heating and cooling energy meters, ultrasonic heat and water meters and ultrasonic flow sensors. These devices can be configured and tailored to meet the client's need.
Company CEO Ignas Vosylius explains that what was established as a start-up in the 1990s by a bunch of university students has become a fast-growing company of 450 people supplying its smart products to global markets. A remarkable achievement for a previously unknown and relatively small player from Kaunas, Lithuania.
“Axioma Metering” in its current form, as an independent business, has just celebrated its 6th anniversary, but the company draws on the experience and track record of its predecessor founded over three decades ago, making use of its proven technical know-how in the area of ultrasound and IoT technologies," he says.
Reliable and eco-focused
He further points out that while smart metering is not new, Axioma has a strong differentiator – bringing its products to the mass market. "We didn't want to focus on a niche product but on a meter that could be deployed on a large scale. To this end, we designed a lean, effective and highly automated manufacturing process which enables us to make a product that ticks all the boxes and addresses the main issues of getting critical data from infrastructures in a very cost-effective way. "
And what makes it different from other meters on the market? "First, we didn't try to squeeze the extra euro from the customer and over-engineer the product. We went in the other direction, offering a reliable, optimally designed meter that does exactly what it is supposed to do. No more, no less. And second, importantly, the product was designed with network connectivity in mind, using standard communication technologies. That means that users can migrate to different network operators without any limitations... This was a true game changer."
Axioma's meters are also extremely reliable and power efficient. "Our water meter is powered by two simple AA batteries and ensures that water flow is measured every half second, the data is reported every hour and sent three times a day to the server. It is guaranteed to work with this precision for 16 years. To design a compact product that would offer these characteristics was quite a technological challenge, but a mass-scale deployment would not otherwise be possible."
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