Utilify: Smart Meter Reader

Utilify turns a $30 RTL-SDR USB dongle into a live readout of your home's
smart meters — electric, gas, and water. Your utility's meters are already
broadcasting on the ISM band; Utilify just listens and decodes the packets
(ERT, SCM, and IDM) into real numbers on your phone, tablet, or PC. No
utility-company login. No cloud account. No subscription required to start.

WHAT YOU GET
• Live kWh, therms, and gallons as your meter reports them — no waiting for
next month's bill.
• Per-day usage, cost, and temperature charts with a peak-hour heatmap so
you can see exactly when your spend happens.
• A photo-scan bill importer that reads usage and rate off any utility bill
and updates your per-kWh / per-therm cost automatically.
• Multi-address support: track your home, a rental, or a parent's place,
each with its own electric / gas / water meters.
• Everything stored locally on the listener device — readings never leave
your network unless you turn on Pro remote viewing.

WHAT YOU NEED
A small USB radio called an RTL-SDR. The "RTL-SDR Blog V4" model works
great and runs about $30 on Amazon. Plug it into a phone (Android, with
a USB-OTG cable), tablet, Linux PC, Windows PC, or Mac and start listening.

iPhone and iPad work as remote viewers but cannot listen directly — iOS
doesn't allow third-party USB SDR access. Run the listener on any of the
above and pair the iPhone as a viewer with a single QR scan.

PRO
• Unlimited history (free tier shows 30 days).
• End-to-end encrypted FRP tunnel so a viewer device away from your home
Wi-Fi can still see live readings.

PRIVACY
Readings live in a SQLite file on the listener device. We never upload
them to a server. The Pro tunnel uses encryption between your devices
only — no third-party intermediary stores your data.