AMR, AMI and Metering CASE STUDIES

81. IoT-AMR Solution For Water Distribution Network 3/29/2022

    The top 1000 largest business customers have a combined consumption of around 26 million m3of water. For these companies, Vitens has launched an AMR (Automatic Meter Reading) tender, that provides realtime information on their water usage and invoicing.

82. Connecting Every Drop: Are Your Water-Loss And Conservation Efforts Up To Date? 10/8/2021

    A new, peer-reviewed study published on Nature.com confirms what water utilities know and confront every day — water scarcity is already a problem, and its growth is forcing action now. Here are tangible steps that can be taken to meet current and future challenges.

83. ABB Technology Further Strengthens Singapore's Water Security 10/1/2021

    Singapore is using desalination as part of the solution to their water supply issue in order to provide enough clean drinking water for its ever-growing population of 5.5 million.

84. Shifting To Cellular Solutions Underpins Long-Term Resiliency And Stability 9/22/2021

    System longevity is a growing concern for water utilities of all sizes and locations. One of the biggest obstacles in achieving this goal is the use of advanced metering infrastructure (AMI) that leverages fixed network communications. Not only do fixed networks require significant expertise to build and manage, but a shrinking workforce is also making it difficult to replace institutional knowledge when those experts retire. Additionally, emerging cybersecurity threats are making fixed networks a heavy load for utilities to bear.

85. Achieving Better Visibility With Less Work Through Software As A Service 9/21/2021

    Operating a water treatment and distribution system is difficult enough on its own, but the job gets even more complex for utility managers struggling to harness their metering data. 

86. How To Get Acoustic Leak Detection For The Price Of An AMI Meter 9/13/2021

    Whatever number a utility estimates as its non-revenue-water (NRW) loss rate — 20 percent, 30 percent, or more — the willingness to address it is often inversely proportional to the cost of doing so. Now, leak detection options that include acoustic monitoring as a built-in feature of residential water meter replacement are cutting the costs and complexity of identifying NRW losses and recapturing lost revenues.

87. Harnessing Digital Twin Technology's Benefits For New Water Plant Designs 9/2/2021

    While the ‘digital twin’ concept has been around for decades, most of the talk about it in water and wastewater treatment has focused on using it to monitor and manage active operations. Here is an advance look at the value they offer.

88. Las Vegas Valley Water District Utilizes Field Tools App And iPhones To Expand Functionality 8/26/2021

    The Itron Field Tools mobile app has allowed for our Field Technicians to use their iPhones as a multifunctional device. The Field Tools App also allows us to upgrade with minimal involvement from our IT teams.

89. Driving Smarter Decisions With Your Water Data 8/6/2021

    OSIsoft brings you some perspective on how the U.S. water utility sector has evolved – and continues to evolve – in its use and management of data.

90. SWAN Corner: Unlock Data To Improve Water Distribution System Operations 7/14/2021

    Water distribution system infrastructures are designed to deliver drinking water to end users, but utilities are continually faced with distinct challenges to fulfill this fundamental objective. For example, these utilities improve customer service by delivering water with high pressure, but on the other hand, water conservation policies push them to minimize water distribution leaks. For this reason, water utilities invest heavily in SCADA and telemetry technologies to support operational decisions. However, unlocking historical operational data and fusing it with other data (such as billing information from AMR/AMI networks) to generate actionable insights has proven difficult.