AMI, AMR, and Metering Features

71. Why Static Metrology Is Important In A Modern Era 4/10/2023

    As sustainability, climate change resilience, and the overall increasing cost of water increasing come into focus, the needs of water utilities and their customers have shifted.

72. 10 Technologies And Breakthroughs From ACE16 7/14/2016

    This year's Annual Conference and Exposition (ACE16), held by the American Water Works Association (AWWA) from June 19 to 22, was the first following the tragedy of Flint — a time when the drinking water industry is under intense scrutiny.

73. Insta-Valve 250 Helps Stop Leak While Maintaining Service To Industrial Park 11/9/2020

    The Insta-Valve 250 provided targeted shutdown without impacting service to a nearby industrial park.

74. The Pitfalls Of Cellular AMI 5/22/2025

    This white paper aims to highlight crucial considerations for utilities contemplating cellular networks as the foundation of their communication systems.

75. Smart Networks Are The Answer. What's The Question? 2/23/2016

    Water utilities around the globe face the same challenges: increasing population, urbanization, and more frequent extreme weather events. New supply to meet increasing demand is very expensive. Changing customer behavior to reduce demand is very difficult. The question is how to get more from existing infrastructure.

76. Leveraging AMI To Identify & Repair Leaks In North Miami Beach 5/13/2021

    Until recently, the City of North Miami Beach relied on traditional walk-up, manual meter reading, and a leak detection service that visited quarterly to survey areas of its distribution system. Surveyors would visit two weeks per quarter, helping city staff systematically go from one end of the 550-mile pipeline system to the other in one-mile sections—it took one and a half years to get through the city’s 25-square-mile service territory. While the city was able to maintain its system and identify leaks, the process was labor intensive and the city understood that automating meter reading and leak detection could be done simultaneously, saving precious time, staff resources, money—and most importantly, water.

77. Two Years And Counting: The AFC SEMPER RPM Offers Aqua Insight Into Pressure Transients 1/18/2023

    It’s been more than two years since Aqua Pennsylvania began using an eye-opening technology, the AMERICAN Flow Control SEMPER Remote Pressure Monitor (RPM), to identify pressure transients and reduce main breaks and non-revenue water.

78. Sniffer Dogs Now Being Used To Detect Water Main Leaks 6/15/2018

    Sniffer dogs have been used for a while in the oil and gas industry to find leaks. But recently, dogs have begun to be used to find leaks in water mains.

79. White House Utility District Reduces Costs By Over $1 Million 12/3/2018

    In 2007, White House Utility District (WHUD), a water utility serving approximately 90,000 consumers and businesses in Tennessee, faced a dilemma: how to meet a projected growing demand for water within the budget and capital constraints faced by municipal and mid-sized utilities everywhere.

80. The Next Wave Of Water Loss Management In North America 11/10/2017

    Though the field of water loss management is ever-growing and refining, a validated water audit to disaggregate volumes and values of all loss components remains the essential first step to reduce water loss in a way that is economically sustainable, both for your utility and your ratepayers. With extreme weather events, conservation rate structures, and regional population shifts changing the face of business as usual, it’s time to get with the program.