Fewer hours, same staff: How rural utilities are reclaiming the workday Utilities know this truth all too well: there aren’t enough hours in the day. Smaller, rural utilities know there aren’t enough people, either. Aging infrastructure, growing customer expectations,...
Four Ways Advanced Metering Helps Protect Water Quality (HINT: It’s About More Than Billing) Water meters aren’t just used for accurate billing these days. Today’s advanced metering infrastructure (AMI) gives utilities continuous visibility into what’s...
How Cellular AMI improves utility resilience during severe weather There’s no doubt that “one hundred” or “one thousand year” weather events are happening much more frequently, with this weekend’s catastrophic flooding in Central...
What Keeps an Itron AMI Project on Track? There is a point in almost every AMI project when everyone realizes the meters were the easy part. The harder work is coordinating people, data, vendors, systems, timelines, and customer expectations without letting one small...
Gas AMI Still Starts with Billing. It Shouldn’t Stop There. Gas AMI is too often treated like a back-office efficiency project. That is outdated thinking. Yes, eliminating most manual reads is an operational improvement. Accurate billing definitely matters. Fewer...
Why Modern AMI Is Worth the Investment Advanced Metering Infrastructure (AMI) used to be the tech nobody wanted at the party. It was considered too pricey, slow to roll out, and was allergic to legacy systems. That was then. This is now, and modern AMI systems like...
