Power Meter Technics · Midrand, South Africa
For thirty years we have done one thing: utility metering.
The instruments, the software, the calibration and the people who run it. We are a South African engineering company, established in 1994, and we have never done anything else — which is why, when a number is disputed, we can follow it from the invoice back to the meter that produced it.
1994
Established
Utility metering, exclusively
109,448
Meters under management
Read every 30 minutes
100
People
Midrand, Cape Town, Durban
1998
Meteringonline launched
Wholly developed in-house
One company, the whole chain — from the meter on the wall to the invoice.
Most of the industry does one part of this. Software vendors buy someone else's meters and hope the data is right. Meter manufacturers ship hardware and leave the billing to somebody else. Reading bureaux do neither and charge for the labour in between.
PMT does all four. Our flagship is Meteringonline — developed in-house since 1998, now handling half-hourly data from more than 109,000 meters. The rest of the business exists to make sure the numbers reaching it are right.
Meteringonline
MOL
Cloud meter data management: acquisition from any major meter, validation, tariff and billing, prepayment, analytics and revenue management. Built in-house since 1998.
Read more →The hardware
Meters & communications
Single and three-phase smart meters, CT and DIN-rail meters, and the gateways that connect them — designed to PMT's specification for the system they feed.
Read more →The people
Metering services
Meter reading, bill verification, tariff analysis, installation and project management — run as an outsourced service or alongside your own team.
Read more →The assurance
Calibration laboratory
SANAS-accredited to ISO/IEC 17025 since 1995, on site as well as in the laboratory — including forensic calibration for utilities investigating tampering.
Read more →Metering companies don't write billing platforms. Software companies don't understand metrology.
Meteringonline was built by metering engineers, not by a software house adding metering as an afterthought. The distinction shows up where it matters — in how a phasor diagram catches a reversed CT before it becomes a billing dispute, in how a summated account diversifies demand correctly, in what happens when a billing cycle straddles a tariff change.
It is why we are comfortable saying that everything on the bill is considered wrong until Meteringonline proves it right.
What are you trying to fix?
Municipalities & utilities
Revenue you can defend at audit
Large power user metering, outage detection across the AMR estate you already own, and billing determinants that hold up when a customer queries them.
Read more →Property funds & centre managers
Recoveries that reconcile
Tenant sub-metering, standby generation cost recovery and solar apportionment — settled in software, without duplicating your reticulation.
Read more →Multi-site corporates
Know where the money goes
Interval data across every site, weather-normalised baselines, and bill verification that checks the tariff as well as the reading.
Read more →Why the data can be trusted
We calibrate the meters ourselves, in our own accredited laboratory.
Billing is only as good as the measurements underneath it. PMT has held SANAS accreditation to ISO/IEC 17025 since 1995 — for calibration on site as well as in the laboratory, and for forensic work where a utility is investigating tampering.
Inside the laboratory- Accreditation
- SANAS CAL 043-01-00 · ISO/IEC 17025:2017
- Measurement uncertainty
- ±0.03% — 33× tighter than a Class 1 meter
- Traceability
- NMISA national measurement standards