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Case Study: Budget-Neutral AMR Targeted In Plantation, Florida
For many years, the City of Plantation, Florida, paid a vendor to collect water meter reads. "The price was so reasonable, we couldn't justify switching to an automatic meter reading (AMR) system," recalled Assistant Director of Utilities Larry Duemmling.
"But then the firm's owner came to us and said, ‘I've worked hard all my life and have decided to close the business and begin raising grapes.' Now he's bottling and selling his own brand of wine."
Officials contacted other meter-reading companies but price estimates were considerably higher than the previous supplier's per-meter rate, according to Duemmling. "At that point, we re-ran the numbers and AMR became competitive."
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