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 That is outdated thinking.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...
Utilizing Existing Communication for Water and Gas AMI Systems If you’re considering a water or gas fixed network AMI system, you may want to consider an Itron solution that utilizes an existing communication network from a few of the larger electric utilities in the...
