{"id":64320,"title":"evoly — Smart metering as a service","tagline":"Meet evoly, the only smart metering solution that's easy to deploy","body":"**TL;DR**\n\nAt **evoly, we make smart meters for electric, water \u0026 waste use cases.** Our software helps utilities achieve better energy efficiency \u0026 lower costs.\n\nWe're already deployed in Europe \u0026 Africa and are looking to find new customers in America.\n\n**Problem**\n\nSmart metering has been around for years, but it has always been very expensive, hard to deploy and heavy on battery usage.\n\nDue to this, more than **65% of utilities in the world still have old gen meters** - they need to be read by a technician on a regular basis to bill you. A Smart meter is an instrumental part when building a smart grid and trying to push for energy efficiency and those challenges are becoming the main priorities as we try to build a greener planet.\n\nOn waste, we help collectors know the exact level of the bins in their city to optimize collection (less CO2 - less travels)\n\n**Solution**\n\nAt evoly we make smart meters easy to deploy. By developing our own hardware leveraging a unique transmission technology: LoRa we are able to offer an **easy to install, 5 times cheaper smart metering solution.**\n\nOur software then helps utilities get 24/7 view on their grid and a wide range of possibilities:\n\n\\- Remote meter reading\n\n\\- Detecting fraud\n\n\\- Turning electricity on and off remotely\n\n\\- Time of use pricing\n\n**Our Story**\n\nDuring the Covid lockdown, we experienced the limit of old gen meters, as technicians could not come and read them to bill every households.\n\nFeeling this pain for the first time ourselves, we tried to solve it in our hometown where we used to go to high school together, before realising that the problem was actually almost everywhere around the globe.\n\nToday we help 8 cities (Europe - North Africa) in this transition and are looking to find our first customers in the US.\n\n**How you can help**\n\n**If you know anyone in the utility space in any country that could find this relevant, please feel free to reach us at** [**founders@evolyenergy.com**](mailto:founders@evolyenergy.com)**. Thank you!**\n\n\\-- Hassan \u0026 Sami","slug":"GjQ-evoly-smart-metering-as-a-service","created_at":"2022-07-05T11:22:22.097Z","updated_at":"2026-05-25T01:32:14.633Z","total_vote_count":20,"url":"https://www.ycombinator.com/launches/GjQ-evoly-smart-metering-as-a-service","share_image_url":"//bookface-static.ycombinator.com/assets/ycdc/yc-og-image-c440a0ad1dacfb86eeeb343717479cc54d256614449b4ef719977a0a451f8bc8.png","company":{"id":26801,"name":"Evoly","slug":"evoly","url":"https://www.evolyenergy.com","logo":"https://bookface-images.s3.amazonaws.com/small_logos/15bd487f1318bd8903bdefa5fe13d9ef7b9e0891.png","batch":"Summer 2022","industry":"Industrials","tags":["Climate","Energy"],"search_path":"https://bookface.ycombinator.com/company/26801"}}