For decades, water utilities have worked to automate the reading of customer meters, eliminating the cost of sending staff members from house to house to record usage for billing purposes.
The ultimate in efficiency is advanced metering infrastructure (AMI), in which all meters transmit usage data to a central hub from which customer bills are generated automatically. The downside of this technology is the capital cost to replace the meters and install the communication infrastructure that makes the technology possible.
Now Smart Meter Reading Solutions (SPMR) has introduced an AMI system that works with customers’ existing meters and transmits data over existing
