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Are you still using multiple systems and manual processes to manage utilities for your customers? Struggling to collect outstanding utilities debts? Urbanise Utilities provides the perfect solution by consolidating your meter reading and management, bill processing and revenue collection in an automated cloud platform.
The Urbanise Utilities platform is currently used by large Strata managers, property developers, and managers, as well as metering service providers managing a diverse portfolio of residential, commercial, retail and real estate assets.
Similan is a property developer, owner and manager in South Africa who provides turn-key innovative solutions and services across the entire property lifecycle. Being passionate about improving and changing the way people live, Similan engaged with Urbanise in 2017 to provide innovative technology for the provision and billing of utilities (water & electricity) and rent, to the tenants of their sustainable development project, Urbika Estate, in Boksburg, South Africa.
The Urbanise Utilities platform provided the perfect solution by incorporating smart meters for each of the three utilities, including a new automated shut-off mechanism for the hot water meters. The advanced tariff engine in the Urbanise Utilities platform enabled Similan to tap into the resell margin which is available to resellers of electricity in the South African market, automating the end-to-end billing process from meter reading through to revenue and rent collection, using the platform’s Smart Wallet feature.
“The property management industry has up to now been very slow in adopting new technology. During the conceptualisation and implementation of the integrated Utilities and Facilities management solution, the Urbanise team and the Urbanise utilities platform was pivotal. We believe the solution will assist us to shape the future of property management in South Africa.”
– Harold Spies (Similan, CEO)