AMI, AMR, and Metering Features
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Why Your Water Utility Should Be Using Hydraulic Modeling
9/13/2022
Hydraulic modeling offers a vast range of benefits such as improving system performance, long-term infrastructure planning, predicting and anticipating demographic changes, and more.
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Encore® 700 Chemical Feed Pumps Provide Reliable Service Over 20 Years In Santa Barbara, California
8/15/2016
The 37 million gallon per day William B. Cater Water Treatment plant serves City of Santa Barbara with the majority of its drinking water while also supplying treated water to the districts of Montecito Water, Carpinteria Valley Water, Goleta Water, and La Cumbre Water.
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Challenging Aeration Design Standards Results In Lower Cost, Higher Performance
6/20/2022
By using airflow-based aeration controls, the Brockton, MA wastewater treatment plant (WWTP) was able to reduce energy usage by 23% while producing higher-quality effluent.
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Simple And Smart: How Radio-Read Meters Are Improving Meter Reading
4/22/2020
When Hank Zwart took over as director of public works in 2014, the city was in the initial phases of installing a walkby system that was eight-year-old technology. Knowing this older metering technology is not the best way forward, Zwart and the City of Prescott decided to implement the latest AMR technology that supports future migration to AMI. To meet this goal, City of Prescott chose Kamstrup’s READy AMR system.
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$0 CAPEX Model Aids Innovation In Changing Water Environments
10/6/2020
Managers of industrial, municipal, and agricultural water quality or water use monitoring can attest to the challenges of balancing depth of detail against the costs of achieving it. Now, an Infrastructure-as-a-Service (IaaS) business model is rewriting the economic impacts of those challenges by repackaging water monitoring capabilities to meet evolving needs more efficiently.
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Staying On Top of Water In Spite Of Flood
3/4/2015
The biggest flood in decades roared through the Village of Johnson City, NY, one day in September 2011, and the water department lost everything, including their office, which was submerged in several feet of water. Working with Neptune Technology Group, Johnson City began installation of its new Neptune meters, along with E-Coder®)R900i™ combination solid state absolute encoder/RF meter interface units.
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Jacksonville, Texas, Tackles Weather Emergency, Improves Customer Service With Xylem Technology
1/18/2023
Learn how the Sensus ally water meter with remote shutoff helps prevent property damage in Jacksonville, Texas.
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Know Your Options For Mag Meter Installation Cost, Care, And Calibration
7/2/2019
Electromagnetic meters (mag meters) are well established in terms of highly accurate performance for a variety of municipal and industrial water applications. Differences in their construction formats, however, dictate how easy they can be to install, maintain, and calibrate. Compare these three options to see the value of full-profile-insertion (FPI) mag meters and their associated advantages in real-world use.
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Article: Water Utilities Slow To Embrace Smart Meter Technologies
12/8/2010
Water utilities appear to be under water when it comes to conservation efforts and adopting new technologies to help customers monitor water usage. Although water is viewed as a precious resource around the globe, little is being done to save water in North America.
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To AMI Or Not To AMI? Lessons Learned From Deployment, And Steps To Success
7/15/2020
One of Europe’s leading water utilities shares five critical steps for successful deployment of advanced metering infrastructure (AMI).