Yesterday, the Southwest Water Authority of North Dakota announced selection of the Smart Earth Technologies (SET) for deployment of their massively-rural, thirty-three community drinking water system.
Leveraging SET’s unique ability to integrate with existing water meters and existing cellular networks, Southwest Water will derive advanced metering infrastructure (AMI) business case benefits by sidestepping traditional costs and delays associated with earlier generation, competitive, collector-based systems.
Southwest Water Authority serves a population of 56,000, with more than 7,350 rural customers. SWA manages, operates, and maintains the Southwest Pipeline Project for the state of North Dakota.
Mary Massad, Manager/CEO for Southwest Water Authority (SWA) commented, “We have already deployed almost half of our service territory and look forward to installing the rest. SET has delivered on their promises to reduce our AMI capital outlay, and deliver exciting recurring operating savings.”
SET products include fully integrated, battery-operated, cellular endpoint transceivers and valves, installation tools, LTE network infrastructure, and cloud-based software for head-end and meter data management for water utilities worldwide. As utilities consider the sunset-stage of earlier generation, proprietary AMR/AMI systems, SET cloud and LTE/5G-based solutions provide a refreshing, infrastructure-free approach to network migration, best-of-class software integration, new use cases, recurring operating savings, and customer satisfaction.
SOURCE: Smart Earth Technologies
