Charlotte Utility Signs AMR Contract with Itron
Itron Inc. (Spokane, Washington, U.S.) will provide Charlotte Mecklenburg Utilities (CMU) with technology to automate data collection from 30,000 of its water meters in Charlotte, North Carolina, U.S.
This first phase of implementation is expected to take eight months to complete. CMU plans to automate the remainder of its territory over the next five years.
The largest public water utility in the Carolinas, CMU currently has more than 200,000 metered accounts that provide drinking water to 750,000 people throughout Charlotte-Mecklenburg. Once the automatic meter reading (AMR) system is deployed, the utility's meter readers will use vehicles equipped with Itron computers and radio frequency transceivers to collect meter data simply by driving past the metered property, eliminating the need for meter readers to access customer properties in automated areas.
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