Stop Estimating Utility Costs. Start Measuring and Controlling Them.

Sphere’s AWS IoT Utility Monitoring solution connects your water, gas, and electricity metering infrastructure to a unified analytics platform — enabling real-time consumption visibility, leak detection, anomaly alerting, and predictive demand forecasting across single sites or multi-campus portfolios.

35%

Avg Energy Cost Reduction

92%

Leak Detection Accuracy

< 24hr

Anomaly Alert Time

15 min

Granularity (vs Monthly Bills)

Why This Matters Now

Organizations managing large facility portfolios or utility distribution networks are operating blind – monthly utility bills tell you what you spent, not where you wasted it, what leaked, or what’s about to fail. Water leaks alone cost US businesses $23B annually, with most going undetected for months.

1. Monthly Bills Are Useless for Operations

A monthly utility bill shows you the total damage, not the source. Identifying waste, theft, or leaks requires 15-minute interval data that most organizations simply don’t have.

2. Water Leaks Are Silent Revenue Drains

A single undetected water main leak can waste millions of gallons and cost $50K–$500K before it’s found. Most are discovered only when bills spike – months later.

3. No Predictive Demand Visibility

Without real-time consumption data, facilities can’t forecast utility demand, optimize time-of-use pricing, or respond to supply disruptions before they cause operational impact.

What Sphere Delivers

Sphere’s utility monitoring platform connects pulse-output meters, AMI infrastructure, and IoT sensor nodes to AWS IoT Core — creating a real-time, sub-hourly utility data stream that feeds anomaly detection, leak identification, and demand forecasting algorithms. Works with existing meter infrastructure or new IoT meter installations.

Universal Meter Integration

Connect pulse-output water, gas, and electricity meters via IoT gateway – no meter replacement required. Supports AMI, SCADA, and BMS protocol integration.

AI-Powered Leak & Anomaly Detection

ML models establish baseline consumption profiles and flag deviations indicating leaks, equipment faults, or unauthorized consumption within hours.

Time-of-Use Optimization

15-minute interval data enables shift scheduling, demand response, and time-of-use rate optimization – reducing peak demand charges by 20–40%.

Automated Regulatory Reporting

Automated EPA, DOE, and ENERGY STAR reporting – reducing compliance overhead and demonstrating ESG progress to stakeholders.

Multi-Site Portfolio Dashboard

Aggregate utility data across all facilities with normalization by square footage, occupancy, and weather – enabling true apples-to-apples comparison and performance benchmarking.

ERP, CMMS & Work Order Integration

Push utility anomalies, leak events, and abnormal consumption patterns directly into the systems facility and operations teams already use.

Built On Industry-Leading Technology

Sphere’s utility monitoring platform runs on an AWS-based data stack built to turn fragmented meter and building data into a live operational system. The architecture combines industrial connectivity, time-series analytics, demand forecasting, portfolio-level visualization, and enterprise integrations so utility signals move from raw consumption data to real action across facilities, maintenance, and finance.

icon AWS IoT Core (device connectivity)
icon AWS IoT SiteWise (industrial data modeling)
icon Amazon Timestream (time-series analytics)
icon Amazon Forecast (demand prediction)
icon Amazon QuickSight (portfolio dashboards)
icon Integration: AMI, SCADA, BMS, SAP, Oracle
icon RESTful APIs

Who This Is For

INDUSTRY

VERTICAL APPLICATION

Commercial Real Estate

Monitor utility consumption across tenant portfolio. Bill tenants accurately via sub-metering and demonstrate sustainability performance.

Municipalities

Real-time water distribution monitoring for leak detection, demand balancing, and infrastructure planning.

Industrial Manufacturing

Process utility monitoring to identify energy waste, optimize compressed air usage, and track carbon emissions.

Healthcare

Hospital energy management with regulatory compliance reporting and critical system monitoring.

Retail Chains

Portfolio-wide energy benchmarking and anomaly detection across hundreds of store locations.

Get a Free Utility Monitoring ROI Assessment

Send us 12 months of utility bills across your facility portfolio. Sphere’s engineers will identify your top 5 waste opportunities and project the ROI of a full monitoring deployment – delivered within 5 business days.

icon No sales pressure icon Senior engineer call icon Custom ROI estimate

How It Works

Meter Audit 

Inventory all metered utilities, assess existing infrastructure, identify integration points and data gaps.

IoT Gateway Install

Deploy IoT gateways at meter locations. Connect to existing pulse outputs or install new IoT meters.

Cloud Platform Setup

Configure AWS IoT Core data ingestion, anomaly detection models, and portfolio dashboard.

Alert Config & Live Operations

Run 2-week baseline period to establish consumption profiles. Configure leak and anomaly alert thresholds.

ROI & Bussines Impact

Sphere utility monitoring clients achieve average energy cost reductions of 25–35% (demand charge optimization + waste elimination), recover $50K–$500K in annual costs from leak detection, and reduce utility management labor by 60–80% (automated reporting replaces manual data collection).

Typical payback period: 4–8 months.

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Selah Ben-Haim VP of Engineering at Prominence Advisors

Our experience with Sphere and their team has been and continues to be fantastic. We keep throwing new projects at them, and they keep knocking them out of the park (including the rescue of a project that was previously bungled by another vendor).

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Ben Crawford Senior Product Manager at Enova Financial

I would expect to be delighted. It’s been a really positive experience, working with Sphere, and I would expect you to have the same.

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Mark Friedgan CEO at CreditNinja

Sphere consistently prioritizes the needs of their clients, demonstrating both agility and teamwork. They bring innovative and well-considered solutions, consistently surpassing my expectations.

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René Pfitzner Co-Founder at Experify

Sphere provided excellent full-stack development manpower to augment our team and work with us.

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Bruce Burdick Chief Information Officer at Integra Credit

We've been working with Sphere and its excellent consultants since our founding. Their combination of offshore talent, pricing, and shift offsetting is hard to beat. They provide crucial augmentation to our in-house team. We simply couldn't achieve our production ambitions without their service.

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Jemal Swoboda CEO at Dabble

The resources and developers that Sphere Software provides are skilled and have the required technical expertise to complete their tasks successfully, with the team easily scaled in either direction. The deliverables are always high-quality.

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Arthur Tretyak Founder and CEO at IntegraCredit

With Sphere, we were able to migrate in half the time it would take to train an additional FTE…

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Lee Ebreo VP of Engineering at Credit Ninja

These things would not have been achievable if we did not build our own in-house system. We augmented our development team capabilities using Sphere’s developer, who works very well with our Dev Lead in Chicago. Sphere’s developer was an expert in the new system, and continues to be an expert as we evolve it.

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Frequently asked question

An AWS IoT utility monitoring platform is a connected utility intelligence system that collects meter and sensor data in real time, analyzes consumption patterns, and turns utility signals into alerts, dashboards, and forecasting models. An AWS IoT utility monitoring platform helps facility, energy, and operations teams move from monthly billing data to live utility visibility.

Traditional smart city deployments often start with network buildout, hardware integration, and long procurement cycles. Sphere’s approach uses Amazon Sidewalk as the connectivity layer and AWS as the cloud backbone, so cities can focus on use cases, sensor coverage, and operational outcomes instead of standing up a private network from scratch.

An AWS IoT utility monitoring platform gives continuous utility data instead of delayed monthly utility bills and spreadsheet-based reporting. An AWS IoT utility monitoring platform helps teams find leaks faster, identify abnormal consumption earlier, and act on demand spikes before utility waste becomes a budget problem.

An AWS IoT utility monitoring platform can work with existing pulse-output utility meters as well as AMI, SCADA, and BMS-connected infrastructure. An AWS IoT utility monitoring platform is useful for companies that want better utility intelligence without replacing the entire metering environment.

Utility leak detection works by using high-frequency meter data and baseline consumption modeling to identify abnormal flow patterns that suggest water loss, equipment faults, or unauthorized use. An AWS IoT utility monitoring platform helps operations teams catch leaks within hours instead of waiting for the next billing cycle or manual inspection.

Utility anomaly detection is the process of comparing live consumption data against expected usage patterns based on time, weather, occupancy, and historical behavior. An AWS IoT utility monitoring platform uses utility anomaly detection to flag unusual water, gas, or electricity consumption before the issue spreads across cost, equipment, or compliance.

Time-of-use optimization works by using interval utility data to show when energy demand is highest and where load can be shifted to lower-cost periods. An AWS IoT utility monitoring platform helps reduce peak demand charges by giving facility and operations teams better timing for equipment schedules, process loads, and demand response actions.

A multi-site utility dashboard is a centralized view that aggregates water, gas, and electricity data across all facilities in one platform. An AWS IoT utility monitoring platform makes a multi-site utility dashboard more valuable by normalizing utility performance by square footage, occupancy, and weather so sites can be compared fairly.

An AWS IoT utility monitoring platform can integrate with SAP, Oracle, SCADA, BMS, and related operational systems so utility events trigger real business workflows. An AWS IoT utility monitoring platform becomes much more useful when abnormal consumption, leak alerts, and forecast signals feed directly into maintenance, finance, and operations processes.

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