Aug 24, 2021 | Data analytics, Featured, Leak detection, Non revenue water, Water utilities
Utilities that choose not to install proactive leak detection know exactly how much they are ‘saving’ by avoiding that investment. Unfortunately, they often have no idea of how much they are actually ’paying’ to forego it, since 65 to 75 percent of water leaks never...
Jul 27, 2021 | Data analytics, Featured, Non revenue water, Water utilities
For 20 years, advanced metering infrastructure (AMI) has been viewed primarily as a cost-efficient meter-reading resource — a key driver behind water utility ROI. More recently, however, utility operations increasingly rely upon AMI capabilities to cope with broader...
Jul 13, 2021 | Aclara News, Data analytics, Featured, Water utilities
Acceptance tends to come in waves for any automated technology that replaces manual labor. In water distribution utilities, advanced metering infrastructure (AMI) technology has already proven its worth for improving efficiency and accuracy in meter reading and...
Feb 10, 2021 | Featured, Leak detection, Non revenue water, Sewer overflow, Water utilities
In the evolution of water distribution, advanced metering infrastructure (AMI) has become an asset in reducing labor requirements, improving customer service, and billing, and providing a baseline of information for better data management. The question is how much...
Dec 2, 2020 | Electric utilities, Featured, Gas utilities, Water utilities
The worldwide pandemic is changing the way people are celebrating the holidays in 2020, but no matter where they celebrate or how many people are sitting around their tables, they still use energy and water. We normally look at topics related directly to metering,...
Nov 18, 2020 | Data analytics, Non revenue water, Water utilities
It’s difficult to accurately assess how much of the water that is pumped into a utility’s distribution system is lost before it is metered, but the Environmental Protection Agency puts the number at 16%, and some experts’ estimates are even higher. In any case,...
