MyVoltage Utility Management Platform vs Smarty Utility Management

MyVoltage Utility Management Platform provides cloud-based smart metering and utility management for buildings, residential estates, and shopping centres. Its meters track electricity, water, and gas, while landlords and tenants can view real-time hourly, weekly, and monthly consumption data. Alerts can cover irregular consumption, water leaks, meter status changes, meter location, and consumption data. The platform reconciles billing, payments, and consumption; the maker says invoices use actual readings rather than estimates, with daily invoices for prior-day usage. Other listed functions include network balancing, council statements and payments, historical data, rent collection, and alternative-energy readings and bills. Solar and generator use can be tracked and billed from readings. Tenants can top up online by credit card or cash subject to terms and conditions; prepaid Wallet recharges have no cost. MyVoltage lists Android, iOS, and web platforms, says payment transactions are 3D secure, and states a 99% uptime guarantee. Pricing is on request.

Smarty Utility Management is Punch’s sub-metering and utility management service for multi-unit properties. It covers prepaid and smart electricity, water, and gas metering, alongside automated billing, vending, collections, and arrears recovery. Punch meters are installed as secondary meters, leaving municipal meters untouched and the supply live. Property teams can use NERSA-aligned time-of-use, block, seasonal, fixed, and demand tariffs, as well as Free Basic Electricity support. Billing options include flat, usage-based, tiered or block, time-of-use, demand, reactive-energy, percentage-based, and fixed-fee methods. The STS vending dashboard supports multiple payment channels and automated token receipts. Monitoring includes real-time consumption data, remote connection and disconnection, tamper, bypass, and leak alerts, plus tariff switching among grid, solar, and generator sources. Residents can use an installable Progressive Web App to check balances and purchase history and make vending purchases. The service also offers single and bulk SMS, audit trails, and lookup. Pricing is on request; listed plans are Rent-to-Own (36 months), Monthly Rental (Evergreen), and Upfront Purchase.