Smart prepaid metering
Water and electricity meters for whole sites and for individual tenants, prepaid or postpaid, with readings that arrive on their own.
Smart metering, IoT and automation
Every meter, every site. One screen.
Live water and electricity readings, a help desk with an SLA clock, and your accounts in one portal. Designed, installed and run by one team.
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The meter on the wall.
Smart prepaid electricity and water meters in the kiosk, each one reporting on its own schedule.
The gateway carries it.
A compact IoT gateway in the same enclosure picks up every reading and sends it over the air. No clipboard, no monthly walk.
The screen in your hand.
Seconds later it is on the portal: usage, balance, faults, on the tablet in the field and the desk in the office.
About ERD
Smart from the first meter to the last screen.
Elysium Research and Development is a South African IoT company.
We design, install and run the technology behind residential, commercial, agricultural and industrial sites, from the device in the field to the screen in your hand. Two partners, one standard: we control every part of the build, so nothing is lost between the hardware and the data.
Learn moreWhat we do
Hardware in the field, answers on the screen.
ERD supplies and installs the meters and devices, runs the communications, and puts everything they report into one portal.
IoT devices
Gateways, sensors and controllers that keep reporting from plant rooms, pump houses and fields.
Automation
Pumps, valves and loads switched on rules you set, with an alert when something needs a person.
Dashboards on any device
The same portal on the phone in the field and the screen in the office.
Help desk with an SLA clock
Log a fault from the portal, watch the ticket move, and see the response time promised against the time taken.
Own your data
We control everything, so your data stays yours.
From the device on the wall to the screen in your hand, one team designs, installs and runs it. No piece handed to an outside vendor along the way.
The ERD way
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Your meters, your data
Readings land in a portal you hold the login to. Nothing sits with a third party between you and your sites.
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One team end to end
The people who fitted the meter are the people who answer the ticket.
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One bill, no stacked licences
The conventional route adds a cost at every layer: a gateway licence, a cloud licence, a dashboard subscription. We fold the whole chain into one line item.
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Fault to ticket on the same screen
A meter stops reporting, a ticket opens, the SLA clock starts. You watch it on the dashboard, not in an inbox.
The conventional way
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A vendor for every part
One company sells the meter, another the gateway, a third the software. Each points at the other when something breaks.
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Data parked elsewhere
Your readings live on someone else's cloud, on their terms, at their price.
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A licence fee at every layer
A gateway licence here, a cloud subscription there, a dashboard fee on top. None are large on their own, but they stack, and they renew every year whether or not anything changed on your site.
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Support by email thread
A fault becomes a chain of messages. No clock, no owner, no view of what was promised.
Process
From site visit to live screen.
Survey
ERD walks the site, maps every meter and supply point, and checks what signal reaches the plant room.
Install
Meters, gateways and controllers go in, the communications come up, and each device is checked against the portal.
Watch
Readings arrive on their own, faults become tickets, and the accounts follow the meters.
What we cover
Built for the places that run on meters.
Residential
Estates, complexes and body corporates that need every unit metered and billed fairly.
Commercial
Office parks, retail and mixed use, with tenant recoveries that add up to the bulk meter.
Agricultural
Pumps, pivots and boreholes watched from the office, switched on rules, flagged when flow drops.
Industrial
Plants and processes where a lost reading is a lost shift: metering, sensing and automation on one network.
The client portal
Smart cloud data. One secure login.
Live device dashboards, a support desk with SLA clocks, your accounts and requests, all in one place for ERD clients.
- Readings from every site, the moment they arrive
- Faults logged as tickets with the clock running
- Invoices, estimates and statements from your account
- The same view on a phone, a tablet and a desk
About ERD
Two partners. One standard for every meter.
Elysium Research and Development is a South African IoT company. We design, install and run the technology behind residential, commercial, agricultural and industrial sites, so nothing is lost between the device in the field and the screen in your hand.
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Our approach
Why we control the whole build.
We do not hand pieces of a project to outside vendors. From the sensor on the wall to the dashboard in your browser, one team is accountable for it working.
You own your data
No third party dashboard sitting between you and your readings.
Built to move fast
Survey, install and go live without waiting on a chain of vendors.
Accountable end to end
One team for hardware, comms and the screen you look at.
Leadership
The two partners.
John-Edward Grose
Co-founder
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Greg Sloan
Co-founder
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Elysium Research and Development
Founded by two friends, ERD operates at the forefront of the evolving IoT ecosystem from Johannesburg, supporting clients across the globe.
We are building the next wave of connected technology, the kind that will soon be mainstream rather than niche. That work is grounded in our founders' expertise: knowing how to get a device installed, connected and reporting reliably, wherever the site is.
We build end to end, from the meter or sensor in the field, through the network that carries its data, to the dashboard you open to check it. One team designs, installs and stands behind the whole chain, so nothing gets lost between the hardware and the data.
Talk to ERD
Tell us about the site.
Give us the basics and we come back with a plan and a price. We reply within one working day.