Automated Meter Reading - Water
Meter readers no longer need to walk onto a customer's property to collect data. NRV Management Solutions Metering and its business partners, offers a quick, efficient way to get meter readings without having to see the meter register.
AMR meter reading increases production eliminates inaccessible meter problems and improves safety for field personnel. Combined with the increased revenue achieved by replacing older less accurate meters, reduced reading costs from automated meter reading increase profits and contribute to your bottom line.
Automatic meter reading (AMR) – Up to 2000 month end meter totalizer values, as stored by the meter, can be collected per hour per collector station
Collector station data is serialised and then rapidly downloaded
Faults, tamper and pipe leaks reported by SMS for rapid response
End-of-month totalizer values for the previous six months can be read from installed meters if required
The previous nine credit downloads can be read from installed meters if required
Meter data can be collected from installed meters on an hourly basis if required
Tariff changes plus the date and time of activation can be downloaded to the meters
To provide the authority with all the options needed to address constitutional concerns in one meter that can easily switch between conventional, prepaid, flat rate & dispensing modes as required and may be permitted or agreed to by the authority and the community.
Electronic credit transfer if required
Can send messages to the user, via the optional in-house display
AMR Reliability: Typically less than 0,2% failures per month
Change out and initialisation: Within 5-10 minutes
Battery life: More than 5 years
Conclusion
AMR solution. From inaccessible meters, we offer an economical path to automating the entire meter reading operation. The results are lower costs, more accurate readings, improved cash flow and improved customer service. The AMR system can operate with electrical meters on the same management system. Quantities of the concentrators and repeaters are worked out as per plans given and the exact numbers may be compiled once detailed inspections are complete
