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O'Fallon staff recommend $4.5M move to Badger Meter cellular endpoints and customer portal
Summary
Staff recommended a phased, three-year Advanced Metering Infrastructure (AMI) implementation with Badger Meter endpoints (roughly $4.5 million upfront) and a customer portal to improve leak detection, reduce truck-reading labor and modernize meter operations; committee forwarded the resolution to council.
City staff presented a recommendation to modernize O'Fallon's water-meter reading system by replacing aging encoder-receiver-transmitter (ERT) hardware and registers with Badger Meter cellular endpoints and the Beacon SaaS / EyeOnWater customer portal.
The presenter described the current Itron truck-read system's operational costs — roughly 500–600 hours annually for drive-by and final reads and material/labor to replace failing ERT devices — and said the city is spending on the order of $225,000–$335,000…
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