Smart Prepayment System for Dual Fuel – Itron UK
Itron Managed Services partnered with Sotex Solutions to build a smart prepayment platform for managing SMETS1 electricity and gas meters across the UK. The system unified dual fuel operations, integrated with suppliers, vending, and billing platforms, and ensured full COSEM DLMS compliance. Delivered through a multi year engagement, the solution improved reliability, sped up vending transactions, reduced support load, and enabled scalable, vendor neutral smart metering operations.
Kafka as the Central Hub for Utility Systems with Data Lake Integration
We helped a utility establish Apache Kafka as a central event streaming hub connecting IT and OT systems and feeding a Databricks data lake. The architecture replaced fragile point to point integrations with real time data flows and scalable ingestion of meter and grid events. As a result, the utility gained a unified data foundation, supported advanced analytics and forecasting, and enabled future digital use cases without rearchitecting core systems.
Enhancing Advanced Metering Operation for Schneider Electric
To unlock the full potential of Advanced Metering Infrastructure (AMI), Schneider Electric sought to scale and enhance its Advanced Metering Operation (AMO) platform—a critical tool in modern energy and utility management. Sotex Solutions partnered with Schneider to accelerate platform development, improve scalability, and support efficient, sustainable utility operations.
Centralized Payment Hub for Multi Country Utilities
A utilities company operating across Sub Saharan Africa needed to centralize fragmented payment workflows across multiple regions and providers. Before this solution, each project independently integrated payment providers, resulting in duplicated effort, inconsistent reporting, and limited visibility. Sotex Solutions led end to end product design, development, and long term support of a centralized Payment Hub. The platform standardizes integrations, supports multiple providers and currencies,
STS Certified Vending Platform for Prepaid Energy at Scale
A public utility in Sub Saharan Africa needed a certified system to generate STS tokens for prepaid customers. Without it, STS meter users could not reliably purchase energy, and no solution or internal expertise existed. Sotex designed and delivered a compliant Vending Management platform from scratch, including security modules, vendor integrations, and payment handling. The system supports large scale prepaid operations and enables expansion across regions.
Unified Digital Platform for Multi-Utility Self-Service
Utility vendors and energy providers across Sub Saharan Africa needed a unified platform to manage the full electricity lifecycle. Billing, prepaid vending, customer support, and monitoring were split across systems, causing duplication, poor visibility, and a fragmented experience. Sotex led end to end design and development of XEPP, delivering backend services, mobile and web apps, and a scalable multi tenant architecture, resulting in one platform for managing consumption and payments.
Building a Digital Twin of the Power Grid with IEC CIM Standard
A public utility in Sub Saharan Africa needed to model its power grid and enable advanced analysis such as economic loss detection. Existing models were incomplete, lacked real world use, and internal expertise in grid modelling and standards was limited. Sotex implemented IEC CIM 17, building a structured data model across multiple distribution companies, resulting in a functional digital twin that supports accurate modelling, power flow analysis, and advanced algorithms.
AI-Powered Drone Asset Mapping – From Images to 3D Assets with up to 1m Accuracy
Sotex partnered with Beacon Power Services to extend CAIMS with an AI powered drone asset mapping module that converts aerial imagery into precise geocoordinates and 3D asset models. Using automated object detection, coordinate computation, and 3D reconstruction, the system eliminates manual surveys and achieves sub meter accuracy. As a result, utilities and infrastructure operators can digitize large asset networks faster, reduce field costs, and gain reliable, spatially accurate data at scale.
Customer and Asset Information Management System for Beacon Power Services (CAIMS)
We partnered with Beacon Power Services to build CAIMS, an AI powered customer and asset information management system developed with ECG. The platform digitally mapped grid assets, linked customers to transformers, and delivered real time visibility into energy flow and losses. As a result, utilities achieved full customer to transformer tagging, reduced system losses, improved response times, and doubled revenue within two years through better operational control and data driven decisions.
Smart Facility Management System
Sotex partnered with Beacon Power Services to design and deliver a smart facility management system that unified energy monitoring, diesel tracking, vendor coordination, and billing automation. The platform replaced fragmented processes with real time visibility and data driven controls. As a result, BPS reduced energy costs, improved fuel management, streamlined vendor operations, accelerated billing, and gained centralized oversight across multiple facilities and locations.