AMI, AMR, and Metering Features

  1. 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.

  2. The Utility Of Location: How Spatial Analytics Saved A Water Company Thousands 6/20/2018

    Today’s data driven utilities are paving the way for smart water systems through their use of location intelligence. Location influences all aspects of managing water — from protecting a sustainable supply to delivering safe drinking water. At Esri’s upcoming User Conference, which brings together more than 18,000 geographic information system (GIS) professionals from across the globe, utility companies will gather together to share successes and best practices regarding the myriad ways instituting spatial analytics technology has benefited their operations.

  3. Moving Beyond Flow Measurement To Unlock Utility Efficiency 11/14/2024

    Smart meters offer the opportunity for utilities to do significantly more with the same number of devices, reducing operational costs, improving response times, and contributing to overall system sustainability.

  4. Control Loop Performance Monitoring 5/26/2021

    Manufacturing sites can have hundreds, or even thousands, of automatic controllers, but most sites don’t have insight into how these controllers are actually performing. 

  5. Worry-Free Water Metering With Advanced Electromagnetic Technology 2/24/2017

    Accurate measurement of water consumption across a large metropolitan area is no easy task, but for a water company it can mean the difference between profitability and throwing money down the drain. That’s why City West Water, a major water supplier to residential, commercial and industrial sites in and around the city of Melbourne, Australia, has been working with Siemens for more than a decade to install SITRANS F M MAG 8000 electromagnetic water meters at high-consumption sites and in fire service applications.

  6. Replacing The Right Main At The Right Time 12/5/2014

    The 100-year main replacement cycle isn’t always best — it can lead to replacing mains that have years of remaining useful life.

  7. Meeting The Growing Demand For Large Size Degasification Modules 11/14/2016

    Sun Chemical Advanced Materials’ parent company, the DIC Corporation, is pleased to announce that it has expanded production capacity of its large size degasification module (LDM), SEPAREL® EF-120, by building a new plant.

  8. Remote Monitoring Helps Growers, Water Districts Do Their Jobs 1/16/2019

    Propeller flow meters have long been an important tool for agricultural irrigation management. As water scarcity and resource management have become increasingly critical, getting the most timely, accurate readings available from those meters is becoming more important than ever. Here is how growers and water conservation districts (WCDs) are each getting the best of both worlds for their own purposes.

  9. Top 10 Field Hacks 11/30/2020

    Our industry’s experienced veterans have decades of knowledge that isn’t learned in the classroom but in the field. Master Meter, Inc. interviewed members of field operation crews across several water utilities in Texas. They gave us these Top 10 Hacks from the Field you can share with your own staff. See which ones your crews have heard before.

  10. Georgia City Reaches Beyond Metering With Xylem 1/18/2023

    Learn how the Sensus smart utility network allowed Gainesville to improve leak detection and enhance customer service.