Stone Harbor to Use Real-time Water Meters

Stone Harbour,NJ, plans to use real-time smart water meters in order to discover leakages and discover patterns in water use.

Stone Harbor Borough Council began its Aug. 16 meeting with a presentation by its water meter supply company, Itron, concerning a proposed upgrade to borough equipment that will facilitate better management and customer service at its water utility. 

The smart technology will allow the borough to access almost real-time data concerning consumption patterns, potential leaks, and causes for unusually high bills for individual customers. 

In addition, new software that can be added to the system would allow individual property owners to view their consumption by logging onto a cloud-based application.

Water Smart, the additional software potentially available to individual customers, will not only track water use, but it will also use the data to provide tips on ways to conserve water.

The system eliminates the labor intensive task of reading individual meters since it uploads data from the meters to a central system which can display usage hourly if needed.

The borough has been using an older version of Itron’s equipment and is contemplating a system-wide upgrade. No formal action was taken.

Source: Cape May County Herald