The technological enhancements brought about by smartphones and IOT has changed the way we buy services and thereby allowed the emergence of new players such as intermediation platforms between service providers and consumers.
The latter now demand to pay only what they consume and nothing more, whether basic services such as the distribution of electricity by an alternative operator, the provision of Internet access in an airport, or more advanced as an immediate transport service triggered using a location-based smartphone.
The success of these new modes of consumption makes it mandatory to automatically collect and process consumption data for these services in order to bill consumers.