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If we can make it
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imagine what Aclara can do for your water system.
The Aclara STAR® Network AMI system is the leading fixed-network solution for water utilities throughout North America. Our proven fixed-network AMI solutions automatically collect meter readings and provide the information
you need to perform leak detection, conserve resources, reduce theft, and improve customer service and billing.
Be a leader. Contact Aclara today to simplify your water system and realize the power of data and a true communication network.
www.aclara.com | info@aclara.com | 1.800.969.1057
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Featured
Articles And Case Studies |
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Preventing Premature AMR Utility Meter Replacement
By Sol Jacobs, Tadiran Batteries |
| The current economic climate is impacting the utility industry, as reduced economic activity is dampening revenue growth. In response, utility managers must aggressively seek out ways to cut costs by increasing productivity, cost efficiencies, and accelerating billing cycles in order to improve cash flow. Over the long-term, these efforts will lead to expanded use of AMR/AMI technology, which offers unmatched potential for enhancing reducing overhead and administrative costs while enhancing reporting capabilities.
Over the short term, however, AMR device manufacturers find themselves under increased pressure to prove to increasingly budget-restrained utility managers that the initial investment costs associated with installing an advanced AMR/AMI system will be justified by long-term cost savings and productivity enhancements.
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Badger Meter's Orion AMR System Helps Cambria,
CA, Manage And Conserve Its Water
By Dave Marsh |
Water has become a very precious commodity and some communities are taking extraordinary measures to manage and conserve it. In 2001, Cambria, a California coastal city of 6,400, put a moratorium on new water hook ups. Chronic water shortages raised concerns that continued expansion could jeopardize the city's ability to respond to wild fires and still provide water to residential and commercial customers. The moratorium remains in effect indefinitely until a dependable water supply is available.
Providing that dependable water supply is the responsibility of the Cambria Community Service District Water Department,
which developed a plan to modernize the city's water system so it could provide customers with the information they need to monitor their usage, conserve water, and manage costs. |
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Des Moines Water Works Incorporates Successful Fixed-Network AMR
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Aclara |
Deeply nestled in the state of Iowa's capital city, Des Moines Water Works
(DMWW) is ranked one of the nation's best-operated water systems for continuously meeting the high expectations and future needs of its customers and municipal governments. In fact, just a few years ago, the Association of Metropolitan Water Agencies
(AMWA) recognized DMWW by awarding it the prestigious AMWA Gold Award.
How did DMWW achieve such recognition? One initiative was the successful implementation and utilization of a wireless, fixed-network, automatic meter reading (AMR) system. |
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Stopping Water Theft
By Master Meter, Inc. |
| If your customer reversed their water meter for weeks would you know about it? How many years might go by, particularly with an indoor meter, before the theft is discovered? Water theft is a serious problem and occurs more often than some utilities are aware. |
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| Featured Downloads |
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| Metering And Meter Reading Solutions Guide |
| Badger Meter,
a leading manufacturer of meter, AMR, and
AMI systems, offers a complete flow management line of
products commonly used in positive displacement, turbo, compound, fire service, and
electromagnetic meters. |
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| Brochure: The Aclara Difference |
| Electric, gas, and water utilities rely on
Aclara AMI solutions to meet their most pressing
data communication challenges. In urban locations and rural communities, the need to collect, understand, and use metering data is universal for the demands of today — and tomorrow. |
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| Brochure: 3G Mobile AMR Drive-By Technology |
| Master Meter 3G ConnectionFree AMR Technologies
incorporate leading-edge technology at every critical point — from the meter and register to the fixed-network, migratable mobile read system, and the utility management software. |
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| FlexNet
AMI Technology Overview |
| FlexNet's single-tier design relays communications directly from meter-to-receiver. The streamlined infrastructure eliminates complex databases, algorithms, and store-and-forward nodes, while maintaining coverage over a large geographical area. |
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AMR
And Meters Product Guide |
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OMNI Meter |
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 Optimal measurement performance is achieved with the utilization of the new Floating Ball Technology (FBT). FBT employs an impeller with a ball design which makes the impeller weightless in the water line. The technology enables the impeller to begin moving with little water flow or force though the meter.
Request additional information from
Sensus Metering Systems, Inc.
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Fixed Network AMR |
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 Itron's Fixed Network provides utilities with the capability
to completely automate meter reading. The system can supply daily or more frequent meter reads, time-of-use information, on-demand meter reads, tamper monitoring and reporting, power outage and restoration detection and reporting, load profiling, and virtual connect/disconnect capabilities.
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Mobile Data Collection Systems |
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 If your field data collection needs are strictly for monthly or quarterly billing cycles, walk-by or mobile RF technology may be your most cost-effective solutions.
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The Master Meter FixedLinx frees utilities from operational inefficiencies and empowers them with the time and information to do more — to better service customers, better manage revenue, and responsibly manage precious resources.
The STAR Network water MTU makes meter reading more efficient and allows utilities to reduce costs, improve billing, and manage resources.
Now there's no need to go out and get meter readings. GALAXY employs high-powered meter transmitters using an economical network of signal repeaters and data collectors to bring AMR to your desktop.
