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County staff reviews AMI problems and recommends pilots; developers and commissioners ask for alternatives
Summary
A consultant review found high automatic-meter-reading failure rates and recommended continued tuning, a propagation study, meter-box upgrades and pilot tests including cellular technology. Commissioners asked staff to evaluate options that could leverage electric meter infrastructure and to pilot multiple metering technologies.
Charlotte County received an outside AMI (advanced metering infrastructure) assessment Oct. 14 that mapped failures in the county’s radio-frequency automatic meter-reading system and recommended short-term fixes and pilots for alternatives.
Findings: Consultant eSource reported that the county’s AMI network had reported as much as a 15–25% failed-read rate when the study began; industry expectations are typically under 1–1.5% for properly tuned systems. Causes cited in the review included accumulated debris and sand inside meter boxes, prolonged deferred meter maintenance (exacerbated by pandemic-era backlogs), buried or incorrectly mapped conduits and antenna placement problems, and some device/component reliability…
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