IoT Energy Meter — WiFi, Cloud, No Gateway

An IoT energy meter is a smart energy meter with built-in internet connectivity (WiFi, Ethernet, or cellular) that can transmit energy consumption data to cloud platforms in real time. Unlike traditional meters that require manual reading or separate data loggers, IoT energy meters enable remote energy monitoring, automated analytics, and integration with building management and industrial IoT systems.

No. Titan has built-in WiFi and Ethernet. It connects directly to the internet and publishes data over MQTT or responds to Modbus TCP queries. No gateway, no data concentrator, no additional hardware.

Yes. Titan publishes data over standard MQTT to any broker — AWS IoT Core, Azure IoT Hub, HiveMQ, Mosquitto, or the Tech OVN Energy Intelligence Platform. You can also use Modbus TCP for direct polling from your own systems.

Titan continues logging data on-device at configurable intervals (1–60 minutes). When connectivity returns, stored data is synced automatically. No data loss.

Cellular smart meters (4G/NB-IoT) are designed for utility AMI deployments where WiFi isn't available. Titan's WiFi + Ethernet approach is designed for buildings and factories where IP connectivity already exists — lower cost per point, no SIM card fees, higher bandwidth for real-time data.

Yes. Titan meters work standalone — logging data on-device, serving data over Modbus RTU/TCP, and publishing over MQTT to any broker. The Energy Intelligence Platform adds dashboards, analytics, and alerting, but is not required.

Yes — both. Titan provides Modbus RTU over its RS485 port for serial field-bus networks and Modbus TCP over its built-in Ethernet port for IP networks. There's no need for an RS485-to-Ethernet converter or a separate serial gateway; the meter is a native Modbus TCP energy meter out of the box. The full register map (voltage, current, power, energy, power factor, frequency, THD) is exposed over both transports.

Yes. Titan is an RS485 energy meter that speaks Modbus RTU on a standard 2-wire bus, so it drops straight into existing building management (BMS) and SCADA networks. Each meter can also act as a bus master to poll other legacy Modbus devices and forward their data to the cloud.

Titan is a true MQTT energy meter and publishes to any standard MQTT broker — AWS IoT Core, Azure IoT Hub, Google Cloud IoT, HiveMQ, EMQX, Mosquitto, or the Tech OVN cloud. Topics, publish interval, QoS level, and TLS security are all configurable, so the meter fits cloud-first and Industry 4.0 architectures without middleware.

No. The Ethernet port is built into the meter and runs Modbus TCP and MQTT directly. Plug it into any switch or router on your LAN and the meter is reachable — there is no RS485-to-Ethernet converter, data concentrator, or protocol gateway in the path. This is what makes Titan a genuinely internet-connected energy meter rather than a serial meter bolted to a gateway.

Yes. Titan connects straight to a server — a cloud endpoint or an on-premise server — over its built-in WiFi or Ethernet. It publishes readings over MQTT to your broker/server, or answers Modbus TCP polls from a server on the same LAN, with no IoT gateway, data concentrator, or serial-to-Ethernet converter in the path. In practice that's a meter-to-cloud or meter-to-server link with a single device instead of a meter-plus-gateway stack.

Use Modbus RTU over RS485 when you're wiring into an existing serial BMS/SCADA field bus — short runs, daisy-chained devices, no IP needed. Use Modbus TCP over Ethernet when a controller or SCADA head-end polls the meter over your LAN and you want IP speed without a serial gateway. Use MQTT over WiFi/Ethernet when you're pushing data to the cloud or an IoT platform (AWS IoT, Azure IoT Hub, HiveMQ, Mosquitto) and want lightweight, firewall-friendly pub/sub. Titan runs Modbus and MQTT at the same time, so a local BMS and your cloud can read the same meter at once — you rarely have to pick just one.