Built for water. Named for a radio pioneer.
meter.me brings reliable, affordable monitoring and automation to the rural water systems the modern world quietly depends on. It's made by Lamarr, Inc., a company named for the inventor who made wireless work in the first place.
Most of America's water lives off the grid. Until now, so did the way we managed it.
A working ranch, a vineyard, a fire district, a rural water association, a country home: each one runs on a water system that no SCADA solution will ever scale to, and that traditional IoT has spent twenty years failing to serve. We're changing that.
meter.me puts every tank, well, pump, valve, meter, hydrant and trough on your phone. No wires across the property. No WiFi required. No walking the line at sunrise to check whether the float switch lied. Just real-time visibility, alerts before damage, and AI that helps you decide what to do.
Rural water systems were built for a world without phones.
They weren't built for the climate we live in now, where one missed leak can drain an aquifer or burn down a town.
Lack of visibility
Buried pipes, hidden leaks, tanks too tall to peek into. You're guessing until it's too late.
meter.me puts your water system on your phone, catching issues early and avoiding costly surprises.
Poor signal coverage
Rural land often lacks power, internet or cell, sometimes all three.
meter.me uses LoRaWAN, long-range and low-power, to extend coverage across miles of property.
Infrastructure failures
Wires get chewed, weather strips them, ground shifts. Anything you can damage eventually gets damaged.
Wireless from the start. Solar or battery powered. Built for the way rural systems actually live.
Hedy Lamarr changed the way the world talks to itself.
Improving things comes naturally to me.”
In 1942, mid-war and mid-career as one of Hollywood's most famous actresses, Hedy Lamarr co-invented frequency-hopping spread spectrum with composer George Antheil. The idea was elegant: a signal that constantly leaps between frequencies cannot be jammed. Their first use case was guiding Allied torpedoes.
The Navy filed the patent in a drawer for two decades. When engineers rediscovered it, it became the foundation for Bluetooth, WiFi, GPS, cellular, and the long-range, low-power radios, including the one inside every meter.me sensor, that stitch the modern wireless world together.
U.S. Patent 2,292,387. A "Secret Communication System," co-filed by Lamarr and Antheil. The conceptual root of modern wireless.
EFF Pioneer Award. Public recognition, at last, for her contribution to spread-spectrum communications.
National Inventors Hall of Fame. Posthumously inducted, fourteen years after her death.
We named the company Lamarr, Inc. because every byte of water-system data we move depends on her insight. It seemed only right.
Lamarr, Inc. is the company that builds meter.me.
A small team headquartered in Suisun Valley, California, nestled in and surrounded by the same rural country we serve. Our team members are foremen, ranchers and vineyard managers, growers, rural property owners, and firefighters. We design the hardware, build the software, and train the partners who install it.
And we run our own land and water on meter.me. We live and breathe the same problems our customers do, and we count on meter.me for our own livelihood.
Our customers are ranches and vineyards across the American West, fire districts in five California counties, rural water associations, and homeowners who simply want to know what their well is doing tonight.
4160 Suisun Valley Road, Ste E-101, Fairfield, CA 94534
Founded 2020 · Privately held