EFFICIENCY IMPROVEMENTS
AMI PROGRAM
Approximately $13.1 billion of utility water revenue is lost every year in the U.S. to leaks, theft, and meter inaccuracy. With the addition of operational costs from manual meter readings, a utility’s total expense can often be staggering.
With Entegrity’s AMI program, meter accuracy is guaranteed. Customer consumption and metering data are transmitted via radio waves from the meter box to the utility billing office. This results in a system that increases utility revenue, provides real-time leak and tamper detection alerts, and eliminates the need for costly manual meter reads.
BENEFITS
- Lowers the cost of meter reading
- Provides real-time billing information to reduce estimated readings and re-billing costs
- Enhances safety by reducing the number of personnel on the road
- Reduces billing errors and disputes
- Enables flexible reading schedules to eliminate delays in summary billing of commercial accounts
- Increases cash flow by allowing quarterly or semi-monthly accounts to be converted to monthly billing
- Reduces customer complaint calls and increases customer satisfaction
- Monitors tampering and theft
- Promotes energy conservation and customer savings with time-of-use consumption
- Increases confidence in service
- Increases information about usage and empowers them to conserve resources and save money
AMI PROCESS
Our 4-step AMI process includes:
- FEASIBILITY ANALYSIS
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- Cost-free evaluation to determine existing metering and billing conditions, total system non-revenue water, and potential return on investment
- INVESTMENT-GRADE AUDIT
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- Laboratory testing of various meter types per AWWA sampling guidelines to further define baseline meter efficiency
- Guaranteed-maximum cost and savings associated with strategic meter replacement program
- CONSTRUCTION
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- Replacement of existing residential and commercial meters with AMI system
- Billing system integration
- Daily customer communication and service
- System commissioning to ensure optimum performance
- MEASUREMENT & VERIFICATION
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- Multi-year sampling of installed meters to verify guaranteed accuracy and performance
