AMI, AMR, and Metering Features
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AMR System Delivers Outstanding Efficiency While Improving Water Conservation In Pacific Northwest
2/12/2014
Public Utility District No. 1 of Skagit County (Skagit PUD) in Washington state was at a crossroads, facing a number of challenges related to its meter reading system. Because the utility was using a touch-read/visual-read system, it was highly dependent on its water meter readers’ acquired route knowledge. Two of the PUD’s three meter readers were planning to retire soon, and it would take at least a year to hire and train new employees to fill their experienced shoes. At the same time, the community was growing at a steady pace, and a significant number of its existing meters were reaching the end of their useful lifecycle.
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Real-Time Digital Analytics Identifies More Than 180 Million Gallons Of Annual CSO Reduction
11/24/2021
The City of Richmond turns to Xylem Wastewater Network Optimization to identify critical CSO-reducing projects, putting them on a path to regulatory compliance while avoiding costly and unnecessary infrastructure.
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Accounting For Drought: Better Water Through Validated Audits
1/29/2016
In an effort to uphold the AWWA’s mission of facilitating safe and reliable drinking water, the California-Nevada section announced a “validated system water audit” program as part of its Water Loss Control Collaborative.
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AMA Managed Solution And District Metering Strategy Help Identify Major Leaks For Highway 71
7/10/2020
A rural water district located between the Ozark and Ouachita Mountains in Alma, Arkansas, Highway 71 Water District No. 1, services approximately 2,500 water customers scattered across 175 miles of distribution lines throughout the countryside.
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Beat The Heat: How To Fight Fire Hydrant Abuse
7/15/2015
To overheated summer residents, they are a free trip to the waterpark. To utilities, they seem more like a flood of money spilling down the street. Any way you look at it, an illegally opened fire hydrant is a lot of lost water.
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Smart Water Network Innovations: Getting Ahead Of The Curve
6/10/2020
As upward pressure on public agency services costs — cities, water agencies, etc. — continues to increase, utilities must get smarter. Progressive leaders are looking for forward-thinking smart city/smart agency initiatives. These include scalable communications networks with open architecture that can grow with their communities.
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BEACON SaaS Managed Solution Transforms City Of Avon’s Water System
5/2/2018
Once a small town not far from Cleveland, the City of Avon is now one of the fastest growing communities in northeast Ohio.
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Putting The Deep Freeze On Faulty Meter Box Valves
11/8/2016
This fall, the Prince William County Service Authority began using a device called a freeze kit, which temporarily freezes water service lines in order to replace angle valves in meter boxes.
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How To Earn Straight 'A's For Water Accountability
10/6/2020
Specific needs for data accountability can vary widely across diverse market applications — industrial, municipal, agricultural, etc. Yet the underlying goal of each application is to gain the best insights for informed decision-making at the best overall value between capital expense and operating expense. Water monitoring Infrastructure as a Service (IaaS) offers new ways to achieve exactly that.
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The Science Of Public Outreach — And Successful AMI Deployment
5/3/2017
As consumer buy-in is critical to the success of advanced metering infrastructure, so is behavioral science in guiding utilities’ engagement efforts around the technology.