RefillBot: making utility management devices smart

RefillBot’s IoT solution makes operation scaling of smart devices easy. With compatible hardware and software supported by API, this startup has seen a 100% success rate of being deployed in 100 villages within 8 months

- Sharon Abhignya Katta

In spite of the immense number of offerings in the Internet-of-Things (IoT) field and inline business models, utility management still requires human intervention at one place or the other. Even though the concept of digitisation helped during the pandemic, human intervention could not be avoided.

Here is where RefillBot, a Bengaluru based startup, steps in with its IoT solution. Started in the year 2020, RefillBot is a B2B company that provides a set of IoT hardware and software which can fit into the infrastructure of utilities. The data is automated across a unified dashboard and can be used to simplify, improve, and scale operations.

The company has three product lines: water monitoring, payments, and sustainable packaging. The utility that is currently being focused on is water. “Even though there are implementational, operational, and maintenance agencies, water management companies require a person to handle the data on a day-to-day basis. Our solution helps avoid even this cost for these agencies.”