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Council directs AMI replacement after study warns current meters may stop communicating by 2027
Summary
After a technical review of the city’s aging automated meter infrastructure, council voted unanimously to pursue a cellular AMI replacement and asked staff to prepare procurement specifications.
PUNTA GORDA, Fla. — Following a technical review showing multiple failure modes in the city’s current automated metering system, the Punta Gorda City Council voted Wednesday to pursue an advanced metering infrastructure (AMI) replacement.
Kroll Engineers’ technical advisor Norm Anderson told the council that analysis of the city’s installed meters — most of which were deployed between 2017 and 2019 — showed a significant uptick in non‑reporting devices beginning about year five after installation. “Projections on the current rate of where the meters are failing, all the meters would probably be failed from…
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