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Water, gas or electricity, utilities historically have sent an employee to read meters located on each customer’s property every month or two, but AMR is changing that. With an AMR system, the utility is able to remotely read each meter, either from the vicinity of the meter, walk-by or drive-by systems, or from a central location, powerline or radio systems.
While utilities are enthusiastic about the potential to cut labor costs and streamline efficiency, workers who have traditionally been employed to manually gather the data are concerned about potential job losses in a tight market.
Automation of meter reading systems has obvious advantages for the utilities and for conservation training. It is unknown how many jobs this is likely to affect, both in terms of job losses and creation of new technological jobs.
Whatever the results, the technology is being deployed rapidly throughout the nation.
This technology brings the potential to integrate various systems of metering in a central location. All utilities will be able to be handled by this system.
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