Advanced Metering Infrastructure (AMI) for Every Utility
Smart Meters
For more than a decade, electric utilities have transitioned from manual and time-intensive meter reading to advanced metering infrastructure to improve situational awareness and reduce costs through enhanced operational efficiency. AMI, however, often requires a level of upfront and ongoing investment unattainable by small and municipally owned utilities. AMIoT from OATI is an open-source solution that provides flexible, secure, and forward-looking AMI with advanced metering technology and a long-range communication network.
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Cost-effective smart metering and grid-edge visibility
AMIoT™ provides advanced metering infrastructure (AMI) capabilities for small and midsize utilities. It offers cost-effective, LoRaWAN®-based connectivity to improve situational awareness and outage response.
- Electricity, gas, and water meter integration
- Real-time and automated alerts and consumption data
- Remote disconnect
- Cloud-based and locally hosted options
- Easy, self-install communication network
Enable smart city use cases without network upgrades
Once a utility or municipality has installed the LoRa communication network, a host of additional smart city use cases such as smart street lighting, parking, asset tracking, and others, can be implemented without additional network costs. As a result, municipalities can distribute system costs across multiple departments to navigate limited budgets and provide greater value to residents.
Case Studies
Enable smart city use cases without network upgrades
Three cities in Illinois – Flora, Metropolis, and Breese – needed improved situational awareness and efficiency for their municipally owned utilities. However, small communities have historically been priced out of advanced metering infrastructure due to steep costs.
Solution
By adopting OATI’s IoT-based AMI solution, a modern, easy-to-install communications network that utilizes open standards, these communities eliminated truck rolls, gained situational awareness during outages, and established a network capable of supporting countless smart city applications with no additional network investment.
AMIoT allows for me to take a look at the whole system, and see if anything stands out that could be an error. It gives a great overview of the electric system health.AMI Project Manager, City of Flora, Illinois
AMIoT allows for me to take a look at the whole system, and see if anything stands out that could be an error. It gives a great overview of the electric system health.AMI Project Manager, City of Flora, Illinois