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Maumee staff warn of failing AMI water-meter system; committee discusses replacement with Master Meter/Harmony
Summary
Dustin, the city service director, told the finance committee the city—s AMI water-meter network is failing intermittently because of communication and service issues with the current vendor, and staff recommended planning a full meter-replacement effort.
Dustin, the city—s service director, told the committee that the city—s existing AMI system (installed in 2013 and supplied through the Mueller/Centrac stack) has increasingly failed to deliver reads because of communication-layer problems and service/support decline. Dustin said the issue is primarily the telemetry and communications: "It's the communication. It's not the actual meter reading Right. Incorrectly at all. It's the it's the communication, the AMI system."
Staff and utility-billing lead John Kelly explained repeated firmware updates and vendor changes have drained node batteries and damaged collectors, producing days-to-weeks delays on service tickets…
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