AMR, AMI and Metering ARTICLES & WHITE PAPERS
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Smart Meters With Integrated Valves Promote Long-Term Savings
12/17/2019
Picture this common scenario for a water utility: A past due account triggers multiple notices to a home, but with no response from the customer, a crew is sent to shut off service. Throughout the process, the municipality racks up other labor costs, including personnel needed to create the work order and a return visit by a crew to restore service once the account is current.
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Can The Internet Of Things Lower AMI Solution Cost?
4/11/2016
Low-power wide-area networks are critical to the Internet of Things but may also work to bring advanced metering infrastructure to the masses.
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Smart Antenna Technology For AMI
11/9/2020
When several years of drought subsided and water restrictions were lifted this spring for the city of Round Rock, Texas, residents quickly returned to their pre-drought usage patterns—and as they watered their lawns, filled their pools and used water the way they had before the drought, their monthly bills began to rise. The utility billing office started getting calls from a number of the 33,000 homes and businesses throughout Round Rock.
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The Value Is In The Journey: How Mustang Special Utility District Is Transitioning To Smart Water
4/29/2024
Discover how Mustang SUD implemented smart water technology, replacing drive-by meters with a cellular AMI system. This switch improved operational efficiency and customer satisfaction.
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Micrometers: A Simple Solution To Water Scarcity
3/5/2018
In the small community of Llimbe in Peru, water sources were running dry. The population had grown from 35 to 50 families, and some of the families were using more water than they actually needed. Because of this, if you lived higher on the hillside, you may only have water for an hour a day.
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Water System Operator Is Cutting NRW Losses Down To Size
4/5/2021
When the aging water distribution infrastructure in Araguaína, Brazil, (pop. 183,000) reached a level of 47 percent non-revenue-water (NRW) loss, the contracted utility operator knew that something needed to change.
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How WWTPs Can Get Greener Grass On The Other Side Of TheĀ IIoT
7/6/2017
The next big thing is here and it’s the Industrial Internet of Things (IIoT). To understand how the IIoT applies to a wastewater treatment plant, look no further than your front yard.
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Have AMI? You're Halfway To A Business Case For Smart Infrastructure And IoT
10/20/2023
Once utilities truly start leveraging that meter-to-cash investment called AMI, they will see they already have an IoT solution in place, and it comes with a built-in business case.
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Digital Transformation Drives Customer Satisfaction, Improved Processes
11/3/2022
Digital payment platforms improve the efficiency of collections and related labor practices, but their greatest benefit may be enhancing utility-customer relations.
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Innovative Communication Tool Enables Robust And Contact-Free Control Capabilities
10/24/2020
Two-way wireless communication can provide a wealth of benefits for municipal water utilities, including command and control abilities that underpin a wider smart city infrastructure. However, most tools currently on the market do not provide the flexibility and uncompromising speed that are necessary to enable these capabilities. The newly released Mueller® Mi.Net® LoRaWAN® (LW) node, by comparison, allows two-way data communication to take place within seconds instead of hours.