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Dade City staff weigh AMI meter replacement and smart water system to recover lost revenue
Summary
Consultants from Performance Services recommended replacing most mechanical residential meters with solid-state (AMI) meters and installing a fixed network to reduce apparent water loss, improve billing accuracy and generate roughly $400,000 a year in additional revenue or savings, according to their analysis.
Hector Samaria of Performance Services presented a proposed smart water program to the Dade City Commission that would replace older mechanical meters with solid-state meters and install a fixed automatic meter-reading network. “This is actually happening today, here in Dade City,” Samaria said, describing degraded meter accuracy and the resulting revenue shortfall.
Performance Services reported it tested 123 sample meters out of roughly 6,500 meters in the system and concluded the city’s total water loss is about 14.8% with an estimated recoverable portion from meter replacement of roughly 9.7% (the consultants presented a range with a conservative safety factor). The consultant team estimated about 6,400 new meters and approximately 6,800 collectors/fixed-network devices would be…
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