Techem: Building consumption metering, billing and heating services

Techem combines heat and water metering with consumption billing, remote reading and heating services for residential and commercial property.

Summary

Best for
Landlords and property managers seeking consumption measurement and resident-facing services together.
Less suited to
Buying a generic industrial meter independently of the reading and billing service.
Deployment
Installed heat and water meters or heat-cost allocators, remote reading infrastructure and Techem services.
Data in
Metered thermal energy and water consumption, with device status and other building observations.
Pricing
Pricing was not established from the reviewed technical sources; request a quote for the exact configuration.

Overview

Techem combines building measurement with the work of collecting consumption readings and preparing bills. Its company overview covers residential and commercial property, placing metering alongside energy management and building services. The relevant comparison is therefore broader than the specification of an individual meter: a property manager may be choosing the measurement system, resident information and billing process together.

Its published service description also includes heating supply, metering-point operation and building-safety services. These are distinct activities. A heat-cost allocator on a radiator supports allocation between occupants, while a thermal-energy meter measures heat transferred through a hydraulic circuit. A project can require both kinds of information.

Offering

The Type 4.1.1 capsule heat-meter datasheet describes an instrument combining a calculator, volume measurement and temperature sensors. Its display covers energy, flow, supply and return temperatures, temperature difference, power and volume. This is a thermal measurement, unlike an electricity meter or a simple pair of temperature probes.

The same document distinguishes radio 4 and wired M-Bus versions. The radio version sends consumption automatically from the dwelling, while the M-Bus version supports repeated remote interrogation. Techem's technical-download collection separately provides heat-meter and water-meter protocol documents, radio-system information and smoke-detector documentation, allowing each installed device type to be identified before selecting a reading approach.

Products and platforms

  1. Consumption billing and remote reading

    Building service

    Heat and water consumption collection and allocation services.1

Technology

The Type 4.1.1 technical sheet makes the communication options concrete. The M-Bus version uses 300 or 2,400 baud. The radio 4 version provides encrypted radio transmission and describes configurable OMS telegrams. These alternatives affect the physical installation and reading method, so the exact variant is more informative than the family name alone.

Techem publishes separate M-Bus descriptions for the capsule heat meter, capsule water meters and Modularis water meters. The availability of those documents is useful for integration planning. It does not make radio encryption keys, a contracted reading service and a wired meter interface the same thing; those belong to different parts of the deployment.

Markets

Techem's sustainability report describes a business serving the property sector through several operating companies, including Techem Energy Services, Techem Solutions and Techem Metering. Consumption accounting is one part of that work, while heating supply and building efficiency involve different equipment and service responsibilities.

The Danfoss partnership account illustrates the heating-control side of the business. This helps distinguish a project seeking fair allocation of an existing heating bill from one seeking operational changes to the heating system itself. Techem can therefore be relevant to property portfolios that need ongoing services, rather than only a one-time installation of measurement hardware.

Company

Techem dates its establishment to 1952 and identifies its headquarters as Eschborn, Germany, in its published company account. The history of its Austrian operation is separately dated: the first subsidiary there began in 1957 and its Innsbruck premises followed in 1979. Those regional dates do not replace the group's founding year.

The 2025 sustainability report records completion of the group's acquisition by Partners Group, GIC, TPG Rise Climate and Mubadala on 7 October 2025. It also records a majority investment in metering-point operator inexogy in September 2025. These developments place the present business in the context of property services and expanding electricity-metering operations.

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References

  1. Techem company history and building services (opens in a new tab)
  2. Techem sustainability report 2025 and completed ownership change (opens in a new tab) (PDF)
  3. Techem technical and protocol downloads (opens in a new tab)
  4. Type 4.1.1 heat-meter radio 4 and M-Bus datasheet (opens in a new tab) (PDF)
  5. Techem and Danfoss heating partnership and group headquarters (opens in a new tab)
  6. Techem corporate portfolio (opens in a new tab)

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