# Subeca

> Subeca sells retrofit water-meter connectivity and cloud software to utilities, municipalities, homeowners associations and commercial water users. Its Wireless and Wired Pin devices collect readings from existing meters using Amazon Sidewalk or LoRaWAN, while Engage supports installation, monitoring and data access. The company targets the cost and complexity of conventional advanced metering infrastructure.

- **Founded:** 2016
- **Headquarters:** Plano, United States
- **Founders:** Hank McCarrick (Founder and Chief Strategy Officer)
- **Products:** Wireless Pin, Wired Pin, Engage, Blinc, Clamp-on ultrasonic flowmeter
- **Notable:** Raised a $6 million Series A announced in May 2024., Selected for Imagine H2O’s 10-company 2024 accelerator cohort., Subeca’s Marin case study reported approximately 92% reads within a three-day billing window for a 104-device 2025 pilot.

## Products & services

- **Wireless Pin** — Retrofit smart register for compatible positive-displacement mechanical meters, with Amazon Sidewalk, LoRaWAN and Bluetooth connectivity. Compatibility must be checked for each meter.
- **Wired Pin** — Connects to compatible encoded or pulse-output meters to transmit readings remotely.
- **Engage** — Web platform and mobile apps for device installation, water-meter monitoring, account management and data access; an external API supports downstream integrations.
- **Blinc** — Embedded communications module underpinning Subeca devices; documented capabilities include Bluetooth, LoRaWAN and Amazon Sidewalk.
- **Clamp-on ultrasonic flowmeter** — Battery-powered flow and consumption monitoring without pipe cutting or water shutdown; the company website labels it private beta as of the research date.
- **Link and Act Valve** — Earlier documented system components: Link provides edge-to-cloud connectivity and Act enables remote shutoff. Described in the 2022 AWS architecture, rather than asserted as the current flagship lineup.

## Achievements

- Raised a $6 million Series A announced in May 2024.
- Selected for Imagine H2O’s 10-company 2024 accelerator cohort.
- Subeca’s Marin case study reported approximately 92% reads within a three-day billing window for a 104-device 2025 pilot.
- AWS documented a 700-meter-point Kinneloa deployment in 2022; later public records report hardware and performance concerns.

## Latest updates

- **2026-08** — Installation guidance dated August 25 describes account preparation, mobile permissions, meter details and register-reading verification.
- **2026-03** — Kinneloa’s March 24 minutes, included in its April packet, state that staff believed a replacement for Subeca might be required and would develop alternatives. They do not establish a completed replacement.
- **2026-03** — Bolinas published vendor due diligence addressing customer references, lease terms, data ownership and interoperability.
- **2025-12** — At Kinneloa’s December 16 meeting, CEO Anne Mushow attributed hardware issues to sealing and said new Pins had rectified them; the January 2026 packet records the statement.
- **2025-07** — Subeca published its Marin Water pilot case study on July 1.

## Links

- Website: https://www.subeca.com/
- LinkedIn: https://www.linkedin.com/company/subeca/
- Twitter/X: https://twitter.com/SubecaH2O/
- YouTube: https://www.youtube.com/@Subeca/
- Facebook: https://facebook.com/subecah20/

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