Smart Metering Modernisation for Real-Time Insights and Performance
A cloud-native smart metering platform enabling real-time energy insights, scalable data processing, and cost-efficient operations.
Outcome Snapshot
USD 54K
Annual savings through cloud optimisation
40%
Faster app responsiveness and dashboard loads
10,000+
Users supported for future growth
36×
Faster throughput for meter data refreshes
Client
A UK energy-tech app that connects to smart meters to visualise electricity and gas usage daily, weekly, monthly and annually. Users set budgets, track CO₂ emissions, receive cost alerts, compare tariffs and purchase carbon offsets.
Challenge
Rapid growth exposed limitations in the legacy architecture: slow batch jobs, rising cloud costs, and friction in onboarding. The business needed a modernised platform that ingests smart-meter data in near real-time, scales efficiently and improves customer experience across devices.
Objectives
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Enhance data accuracy with modernised pipelines for real-time meter ingestion.
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Improve onboarding flow for sign-up, tariff switching, CO₂ offset purchase and budgeting.
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Optimise backend performance by replacing long-running scripts with rapid, multi-threaded services
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Ensure multi-device compatibility with a consistent cross-platform app.
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Scale efficiently to support up to 1 million users.
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Secure and archive data with reliable long-term storage and auto-scaling
What We Built
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Modern data pipeline migrating legacy PHP scripts to AWS Lambda for faster processing
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Auto-scaling microservices on AWS for resilient, scalable performance
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Optimised Ionic frontend enhancing onboarding, analytics, and user experience
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Robust data archival with secure real-time and long-term storage
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Third-party integrations connecting smart meters, suppliers, and payments
Impact
36×
faster processing, enabling near real-time insights for users and operations
$54k
year cloud savings, freeing budget for growth initiatives
Built
for 1M users, with architecture designed to scale without performance trade-offs
Better
customer experience: smoother onboarding, clearer budgeting and greener-living adoption (CO₂ goals,
Build Facts
Platform
AWS Lambda
AWS Auto-Scaling Groups
Node.js Microservices
Amazon S3
CI/CD
Focus
Real-time smart-meter data ingestion
cost-efficient cloud architecture
multi-threaded processing
enhanced onboarding and user experience
Let’s talk, no strings attached.
