A dvanced metering infrastructure (AMI) with fixed network communication has given water utilities an abundance of data — typically hourly information on customers’ water usage. The challenge has been turning that data into information that can guide performance-enhancing actions.
Meeting that challenge is the aim of Advanced Metering Analytics (AMA) from Badger Meter. The technology combines the company’s ORION SE two-way or GALAXY one-way fixed network AMI solutions, its secure analytics-based ReadCenter software, and its family of meters and encoders. Essentially, the system takes in the hourly AMI data, identifies conditions that require attention, and alerts appropriate personnel to take action
