Smart Country Convention 2025 in Berlin – Analog world. Digital data. Sustainable impulses for energy and water
At the Smart Country Convention 2025, PSsystec, together with Deutsche Telekom, demonstrated how IoT solutions make analog energy and water data visible – sustainable, IT-free, and ready to use immediately.
Berlin, exhibition halls at the radio tower – three days on which innovation was noticeable. At this year's Smart Country Convention 2025, organized by Bitkom and Messe Berlin, under the sponsorship of the Federal Ministry for Digital and State Modernization, Deutsche Telekom, together with partners such as PSsystec and CREM Solutions, presented itself as a powerful driving force for sustainable digitalization.
Between data streams and radio signals, it became clear that the future of local government and industrial infrastructures will emerge where analog values become digitally visible – independent of local IT, installed non-invasively and ready to use.
Sustainable water management – IoT for agriculture, cities and local governments
Sabine Bednarzik took the audience on a journey through the water industry of the future. Under the motto "Five ways of surveying water consumption", she showed how digital transparency redefines resource conservation.
Whether in fields, wells or local utility networks, every drop counts and every impulse becomes measurable.
The basis is the combination of IoT sensor technology, mobile connectivity (NB-IoT/LTE-M) and the Cloud of Things. Through this structure, live data from water meters, flow meters, soil moisture sensors and pump controllers flows directly into dashboards that automatically document and alert.
The heart of the field: the SMARTebox nanoIO from PSsystec's SMARTbox portfolio. A compact, battery-powered data logger, robust for shaft and outdoor mounting, with four dry contact inputs for pulses or alarms. It works autonomously for up to five years, transfers PSA-certified data to the cloud and – like all PSsystec IoT solutions – does not require any local IT infrastructure.
In this way, analog meters are used to create a digital image of reality:
- Digital water meters send live consumption data instead of handwritten lists.
- Flow meters document when and for how long irrigation is used.
- Soil moisture sensors detect when the soil really needs water.
- Pumps report start and end times and warn of anomalies.
The result: Less evaporation losses, lower personnel costs, automatic documentation.
A northern German district was thus able to schedule its irrigation precisely in the evening hours (8 p.m. to 10 p.m.), massively reduce water consumption and travel times and at the same time automate subsidy reports.
This solution is an example of the idea with which PSsystec is responding to climate change digitally: non-invasively. Cellular-based. Plug & Play.
In line with the mission: "Easy access to non-digitized values anywhere and at any time."
Energy data management – demonstrably increasing sustainability, becoming more efficient, reducing costs
At the same booth – the Deutsche Telekom IoT Stage – Horst Lange (PSsystec) and Daniel Will (CREM Solutions | A Nemetschek Company) shows what energy efficiency looks like today when hardware, software and mobile communications merge into a single unit.
The joint presentation demonstrated how the IoT Energymonitor from the SMARTbox portfolio makes energy flows of electricity, gas, water and heat visible in real time – without interfering with existing IT systems or interrupting operations.
The solution combines non-invasive sensor technology, wireless technology and PSA-certified mobile communications routes with the cloud. The result: an end-to-end data chain from the measuring point to the analysis platform.
The focus is on the SMARTbox gateway from PSsystec, which communicates with sensors in the building or control cabinet via wireless mesh. Current measurements up to 800 A – including Rogowski coils – are just as possible as gas or heat measurement. Data is integrated into existing systems via REST APIs, while the CREM Energy analytics platform provides more than 50 automated reports, AI-powered anomaly detection, and modules for EN ISO 50001, ESG, and CSRD reporting.
The system is eligible for BAFA funding (Module 3) – up to 45% funding rate. So sustainability also becomes economically attractive.
In practice, a branch network with over 600 locations showed what this means:
- 5-10% reduction in energy costs
- 40% reduction in total costs
- Up to 10% energy saving through transparent load profiles, peak shaving and optimized control.
For existing meters, the SMARTmetering solution package and the SMARTmodbus solution package offer simple digital retrofitting – manufacturer-independent, wireless, IT-free. More than 200,000 collection points could thus be centralised and monitored live.
The principle behind it is as simple as it is revolutionary:
Measure – Transfer – Analyze –Optimize.
And everything runs via mobile communications, PSA-certified, securely in the Cloud of Things.
Two lectures, one message: Digitization must be simple.
Whether water or energy – the examples of the Smart Country Convention 2025 show how PSsystec is building bridges with the SMARTbox portfolio: from analog meters and sensors to digital data. Plug-and-play instead of project marathon. Mobile communications instead of VPN. Cloud instead of control cabinets.
This makes digitization tangible: in districts, local governments, branch networks, production plants – wherever values have previously been hidden.
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