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Tuscaloosa council hears update on smart‑meter (AMI) rollout; city about halfway through phase
Summary
City staff told the Tuscaloosa City Council the automatic meter infrastructure (AMI) rollout has converted roughly 10,600 of 19,000 meters in phase 2 and that the program aims to finish this phase in October; council members asked about costs, staffing and neighborhood progress maps.
City staff provided an update on the city’s automatic meter infrastructure (AMI) project during the council meeting, saying the program has converted about 10,600 meters in phase 2 and is more than halfway complete.
“AMI is basically we we have a project converting all our meters to smart meters, which means, basically, they can instead of somebody having to manually go out and read them, they will transmit that data through a communication infrastructure directly to us,” said Brian Kearney, city staff, describing the technology and its intended benefits.
Kearney said the city has roughly 55,000 meters in the system, and that phase 1 converted about 5,600 meters…
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