Baltimore Switches to Smart Water Metering
Published on by Water Network Research, Official research team of The Water Network
City InstallsBaltiMeter'sAutomated Meters to Collect Precise Data on Utility Usage in an Effort to Provide Accurate Billing and Reduce Waste
TheBaltiMeterproject, which will use the meters to collect data on water usage, will begin rolling out in September with 10,000 meter installations in the city's Mount Vernon and Pimlico neighborhoods and in Baltimore County's Bowleys Quarters area, the cityannounced.
A small transmitter will be attached to each water meter to wirelessly send water usage. This data will then be collected and uploaded into the billing system. Information transmitted contains the meter serial number and consumption data. No identifiable homeowner information is transmitted.
In all, 203,000 Itron meters will be installed in the city by April 2016 and 204,000 in the county by April 2017. The transmission of usage information will eliminate the need for crews to manually read each meter, saving the city money.
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