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Stop the Clock.
It's time to synchronize your water system with Aclara®.
You can read all meters at the same time. With time-synchronization, the Aclara STAR® Network uses hourly, time-stamped reads to determine how much water is actually getting to your customers. That means you'll know a lot more about your water system and where to start fixing problems.
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AMR And Meters
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Welcome to this special Water Online newsletter focused entirely on automatic meter reading (AMR) and meters. In these economic times, protecting revenue is more important than ever. See today's featured articles for two perspectives on avoiding revenue loss, and visit our news, products, and downloadable sections for more solutions to your AMR and meter needs.
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Featured Articles
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4 Tips For Building Meter-Related Revenue
By Floyd S. Salser, Jr., CEO, MARS Company
The water meter industry operates on revenue and the modern utility is both a business and a public service. Accepting that all things within a modern water utility are paid for by the revenue income from water meters with few exceptions, this article may help you deal with revenue recovery, revenue protection, and revenue maintenance. This means that we cannot justify paying too much for the products we use and we cannot allow revenue to drift away through various means that are not always obvious to those of us who work within our industry.
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Tired, Worn, And Leaky ... We Can Fix That
By Neptune Technology Group
The water industry workforce isn't getting any younger. And neither is the
infrastructure. As one retires and the other crumbles, the holes they leave behind
mean more non-revenue water and fewer people to fix the leaks. And now, with communities facing a difficult economy and turning a sharper eye toward sound
fiscal management, every drop counts. Helping to find that water — and revenue — is Neptune Technology Group. Through ARB Utility Management Systems, Neptune offers an integrated solution to critical workforce challenges, infrastructure challenges, operational efficiency challenges, and non-revenue water challenges.
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Featured Downloads
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| Brochure: FlexNet AMI Technology Overview |
| The FlexNet 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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| Brochure: The AMI Solutions Company — The Aclara Overview |
| There is no single AMI technology that addresses all the needs of utilities. That is why Aclara has inegrated a complete suite of technologies from North America's leading advanced utility communication providers, all subsidiaries of ESCO Technologies Inc., to address these needs worldwide.
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| Browse the download library |
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Submission Information
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Water Online invites members of the community to submit their technical articles,
application notes, white papers, tutorials, videos, press releases, and other relevant content for featuring on www.wateronline.com and in our e-mail newsletter.
Please send your submissions or questions to us at editor@wateronline.com.
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