# Guardian Water & Power: Features, Pricing, Integrations & AI Visibility > Guardian Water & Power reviewed: wireless submetering, four billing service levels, RUBS for unmetered properties, five PMS integrations, and what to ask. Canonical: https://webpossible.com/vendors/guardian-water-power/ Source: https://webpossible.com/vendors/guardian-water-power/ Format: Markdown version for AI agents. The canonical HTML page is at the source URL above. Last verified: 2026-09-04 --- Vendor profile · verified 2026-09-04 # Guardian Water & Power: Features, Pricing, Integrations & AI Visibility By Ryan York · last verified 2026-09-04 ## On the record From the shared vendor database. Every fact carries its source and the date it was checked; anything not listed here is a question for the vendor. Category [Utility Management](/property-management-software/utility-management/) What it is · [source](https://www.guardianwp.com/utility-billing-services) · verified 2026-09-04 Wireless submetering installation plus tiered resident utility billing (read-only through read, bill and collect) and RUBS for unmetered properties; founded 1983, 4,900+ clients in 46 states. Pricing model Not published; ask for the per-unit figure and the minimum. PMS integrations · [source](https://www.guardianwp.com/) · verified 2026-09-04 [Yardi](/property-management-software/integrations/yardi/), [RealPage](/property-management-software/integrations/realpage/), [AppFolio](/property-management-software/integrations/appfolio/), [Entrata](/property-management-software/integrations/entrata/), [Rent Manager](/property-management-software/integrations/rent-manager/) Property types and portfolio fit Institutional Multifamily, Small Multifamily, HOA Communities, Student Housing, Commercial Facilities Also known as Guardian Website [https://www.guardianwp.com/](https://www.guardianwp.com/) Guardian Water & Power installs wireless submeters and bills against them, and it lets the owner choose how much of the billing to hand over. Its utility billing page names four service levels: read only, read and calculate, read and bill, and read, bill and collect. For properties that cannot be metered it sells RUBS for water, gas and electric, and it will bill trash, hot water and pest on the same statement. The company was founded in 1983, its homepage counts 4,900 or more clients across 46 states, and it advertises in-house counsel for the regulatory side. In the [utility management category](/property-management-software/utility-management/) it has the longest named PMS integration list, and the facts panel below is rendered from our vendor database with a source and verification date on each entry. ## Who it fits The database tags institutional multifamily, small multifamily, HOA communities, student housing and commercial facilities, and Guardian’s site adds condos, new construction, mobile home parks and marinas. That is the widest segment spread in the category, and the four service levels are what make it possible. A large operator that wants only meter reads and does its own billing in the PMS buys the first level. A condo association that wants nothing to do with collections buys the fourth. The buyer is anyone with a property that can be submetered, or one that cannot and needs RUBS done by someone who claims to know the rules in the state. It fits less well for a single-family manager whose tenants already hold the accounts, and for an owner who wants a payments statement with rent on it, which is a different product. ## Pricing Pricing is not published. Since the service is tiered, ask for the price at each of the four levels, then the meter and installation cost per unit for a retrofit and for new construction, then the monthly read fee per unit. Ask whether a service fee is added to the resident’s statement at the read-and-bill and read-bill-and-collect levels. Ask who owns the meters at the end of the term and what a transmitter replacement costs. Guardian’s own site claims a 92 percent collection rate; ask what that figure is measured on and whether it is guaranteed in the contract or just quoted. ## Integrations The record lists Yardi, RealPage, which Guardian names as OneSite, AppFolio, Entrata and Rent Manager, all from the homepage. That covers the institutional stack and the two systems a mid-size operator is likely to run. Ask which of the five posts charges to the ledger directly and which works from a file, since a homepage list does not say. Ask how move-ins and move-outs reach Guardian from each system and how a partial month is prorated from the meter read. The [Yardi integrations page](/property-management-software/integrations/yardi/) and the [Entrata integrations page](/property-management-software/integrations/entrata/) list the other vendors on this site that connect to the same systems. ## Limitations and questions to ask The service level decides the questions. At read only, ask what format the reads arrive in and how they get into your billing. At read and calculate, ask who checks the calculation before it posts. At read and bill, ask what the resident statement looks like, how a dispute is logged and whether Guardian or your office answers. At read, bill and collect, ask what collections means in practice, when an unpaid balance comes back to the property, and how it interacts with the rent ledger at move-out. On RUBS, ask which formula Guardian recommends for your building and who monitors the rules in your city and state, since in-house counsel is a claim you should ask to see in the contract as an indemnity or not at all. On hardware, ask about the service response for a dead meter and what residents are billed during an outage. On trash, hot water and pest billing, ask how those lines are described on the statement, because a resident reads them. ## Alternatives The [utility management vendor list](/property-management-software/utility-management/vendors/) compares all ten vendors in the category with the same facts. The closest match is [Minol USA](/vendors/minol/), another submeter-first firm with a billing program and expense management, which names no PMS. [Submeter Solutions](/vendors/submeter-solutions/) sells design, install and equipment with read-and-bill from Seattle and is the option if you want to install with your own crew. If the statement matters more than the meter, [Zego](/vendors/zego/) puts RUBS and submeter charges on the rent statement with click-to-pay. ## AI visibility The AI Shortlist Index will measure utility management when a prompt set for the category is approved, and the Guardian Water & Power row will appear here from that edition on. ## Live from the Index, September 2026 This vendor is not in an Index category yet. Part of [/property-management-software/utility-management/](/property-management-software/utility-management/).