AMI, AMR, and Metering Features
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How To Utilize Limited Resources To Address Water Loss During A Drought
1/17/2023
Discover how to track water loss, analyze results, and standardize operating practices for your team with more efficiency.
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Climbing Higher For A Better View: Keys To Successful Water Management
2/25/2015
Many utilities are moving to a traditional business mindset rather than continuing as largely compliance-driven entities. This is challenging leaders to apply asset management and smart infrastructure strategies, to become more programmatic in managing water, and to consider the big picture in addressing public needs.
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Is Transitioning From AMR To AMI Worth The Effort?
6/30/2020
For the City of Fairborn, Ohio, switching from manual meter reading to automated meter reading (AMR) and eventually to advanced metering infrastructure (AMI) has made a small operations staff more productive, provided more timely information for the city’s water treatment plant and distribution system, and tremendously improved customer service. Learn about the benefits captured and lessons learned along the way.
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Making The Most Of AMI
7/13/2015
The notion of advanced metering infrastructure (AMI), if not its practice, has become ubiquitous in the water industry. It’s hard to escape the feeling that following the evolution from manual to drive-by metering, the power and efficiency of AMI will soon become a utility standard.
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Encore® 700 Chemical Metering Pumps Provide Precise Coagulant Metering
8/15/2016
Water utility operators are increasingly challenged by scrutiny and regulation on disinfection by-product (DBP) levels while trying to manage ever increasing coagulant costs in a tight budget environment.
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AMI Steps Up Efficiency Without Feet On The Street
12/6/2013
Begun in 1882 as a station along the Missouri, Kansas, & Texas (MKT or Katy) Railroad, Hewitt, Texas encompasses 6.86 square miles south of Waco.
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Gwinnett County, GA, Improves Meter Program Through Science And Strategy
12/16/2020
Gwinnett County is located 30 miles northeast of Atlanta. The County is investigating methods to improve its strategic program for water meters. These improvements include updated testing equipment, a wider selection of approved metering technologies, and increased employee training. The goal is to install the most appropriate meter for each specific use, and to enhance the county’s excellent customer service.
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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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Using Flow Meters To Reduce Non-Revenue Water
9/10/2018
Utility managers are continually challenged to run water systems in the most efficient manner. Reducing non-revenue water (NRW) is an important component for system efficiency. In many states, regulators are placing caps on NRW or requiring reductions in the amount of NRW. Accurate and well-planned flow measurement can be used to locate areas of water leakage and reduce NRW.
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Managed Metering Solutions Offer A Strong Business Case
10/29/2019
Many municipalities would benefit from a managed solution for water meter reading. However, they often avoid a deep dive into the option after performing a cursory, and flawed, cost-benefit analysis. When properly evaluated, managed solutions frequently provide a better and more viable alternative.