Case Study: Large Water Meter Manufacturing Company achieves over 10-year battery life and 2-month faster development with Keysight

Water Meter Manufacturer Extends Battery Life over 10 Years

Large Water Meter Manufacturing Company, a premier water meter manufacturer in China, was developing LoRa-based smart meters but lacked visibility into power consumption and could not confidently predict battery longevity. The company engaged Keysight and adopted the Keysight X8712A IoT device battery life optimization solution (with KS833A1A event-based power monitoring) to gain the needed insight.

Keysight deployed the X8712A solution—using the N6781A SMU and KS833A1A software—to correlate RF and analog events with current draw, pinpointing inefficient subsystems and guiding design changes. As a result, Keysight helped the Large Water Meter Manufacturing Company reduce development and test time by two months and revise the design to achieve over 10 years of battery life.