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-sourced 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 cities uses cases without network upgrades
Once a utility or municipality has installed the LoRa communication network, a host of additional smart cities 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
Right-sized smart metering for municipalities
Three cities in Illinois – Flora, Metropolis, and Breese – needed improved situational awareness and efficiency for their municipal-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 network of devices that utilizes open standards, these communities eliminated truck rolls, gained situational awareness during outages, and established a network capable of supporting countless smart cities 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