圣克鲁兹市 Advanced Metering Infrastructure Feasibility Study

圣克鲁兹市面临着挑战. 他们需要找到更好的方法来解决问题, aging and under-reporting meters; failing drive-by, 或自动抄表(AMR), radios; obtaining 100% of each month’s billing reads; the inability to provide customers with detailed usage and leak detection information; and the inefficient use of staff time in obtaining reads and maintaining an aging system.

他们的解决方案? Testing the feasibility of a system-wide deployment of Advanced Metering Infrastructure (AMI) to consolidate meter reading onto a single platform to solve their current challenges – and they partnered with us to do explore the possibilities.

The City contracted with 正规博彩十大网站排名 to perform a Feasibility Study to gain an understanding of current technology options and to explore the benefits of a full AMI implementation for the City and its customers.

我们确定了最合适的技术, 确定预期成本, 并计算出主动出击的额外好处, AMI-enabled meter replacement program compared with the meter-failure driven, 被动的替代方法. Our team also provided detailed data to enhance day-to-day operations, 降低成本, enhance customer benefits and better serve the community of Santa Cruz.

根据电流表的年代, it is expected that a significant number of radio batteries (representing approximately 40% of the customer base) will fail in the next few years. These failing meters will need to be addressed, regardless of AMI program decisions.  We developed a strong financial justification for using a system-wide programmatic approach to deploy AMI. The cost of performing reactive meter replacement, as it is currently, will cost Santa Cruz $9.2 million over the next 20 years, whereas the approach we developed would only cost $8.500万年, 为金融城节省了700美元,000 and providing a wealth of additional benefits including avoided labor costs, improved meter registration and other operational savings.  The total quantified benefits exceed the cost of AMI by more than $10 million.

Due to the positive outcomes of this comprehensive analysis, it was recommended that the City pursue a system-wide programmatic approach to deploying AMI.  这是公认的, 然而, that capturing this value is not immediate nor guaranteed without careful planning. 成功取决于识别, designing the program around and measuring the progress toward key outcomes.