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Infrastructure management software for water & electricity companies
Pylon provides water and electricity distribution companies, in emerging markets, with a platform for reducing their losses as well as opening new revenue streams. These losses are coming from leakages, consumption thefts, and uncollected bills, amongst others. We have signed 11 utilities onto our platform across 2 countries and connected our systems to over 560k endpoints. Today our average client has reduced their aggregate revenue losses by 45% Expanding in Africa, LATAM, and SEA.
Pylon provides infrastructure management software for utilities, offering integrated platforms to oversee and optimize energy and water distribution. It targets emerging markets with flexible pricing models and real-time management tools.
Pylon offers an integrated Utility Management Platform and an Energy Management System to enable real-time oversight, loss reduction, and operational efficiency for energy and water networks. It provides metering infrastructure (SMaaS option includes hardware and software), platform deployment, ongoing maintenance, and round-the-clock support, with data-driven insights and recommendations to reduce losses and optimize distribution.
Who it’s for: Utilities and large-scale energy/water operators in emerging markets, including residential compounds and industrial telecom infrastructures requiring smart metering and distribution optimization.
Customers: Madinaty, Egypt, Mostakbal City, New Cairo, Yopal, Colombia
Has named projects and continental deployments, multiple customers, public pricing page, ongoing partnerships
I've worked in the metering and Energy business for over 12 years. I've led the development and implementation of smart metering technologies in Africa, the Middle East, Europe, and Asia. I'm also a board member of Prime Alliance, the leading organization working on developing a new open, public, and non-proprietary telecom solution in the smart metering business.
I have over 14 years in the software development business delivering over 100 software projects catered for various industries. I am one of the early adopters of utility management platforms in Egypt and the Philippines. I've been a leading member of the team responsible for implementing the Egyptian Smart Meter Standard.

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