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Schneider Electric pitches citywide smart water meters and phased wastewater plant upgrades
Summary
Schneider Electric presented a two-part plan to Groves City Council on July 28 proposing a citywide advanced metering infrastructure (AMI) rollout for roughly 7,000 meters and staged upgrades to the wastewater treatment plant, including new blowers, fine-bubble diffusers and modern controls; no council vote was required at the presentation.
Schneider Electric told the Groves City Council on July 28 that it can replace the city’s aging water meters with an advanced metering infrastructure system and carry out a phased rehabilitation of the wastewater treatment plant.
The company’s presenter, Craig Messenberg of Schneider Electric, said the AMI program would replace older meters and on-site read heads with sonic meters that communicate via a low‑power cellular-style network. “It’s gonna be in constant communication through an antenna and a cell like network,” Messenberg said, explaining the system can deliver multiple reads per day and allow customers and staff to detect leaks faster.
The presentation emphasized customer and operations features: remote reads, a customer app with alarm thresholds, administrator dashboards for the utility and an option for a guaranteed-performance pilot that would compare removed meters to new meters and quantify expected…
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