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Title: Automatic Meter Reading-Closing The Loop
Author: John B. Blose
Source: American Gas Association 1985
Year Published: 1985
Abstract: Automatic meter reading has proven to be an illusive target. For decades, gas, electric, and water companies have encouraged and supported research and development of systems apable of providing meter reading at a cental facility. Technology breakthroughs of the sixties and seventies brought technical feasibilly, and the microprocessor explosion of the eighties promises smaller, more versatile, more citable and lower cost systems. System cost renains the single most significant deterrent to vide acceptance of AMR systems. In reecm years, load management has prodded the incentive for purchase of one-way ommunications systems to reduce system leaks. Numerouse electric co-ops have realized :arly payback of system costs by shaving the me peak period thai set rates for the year. Supiliers generally benefit far less from load nanagement and look for systems that provide )ther functions as well, such as automatic meter eading. There is a concensus in the electric inlustry that in the foreseeable future, system osts cannot be justified solely on the basis of leferred manual meter reading costs. Load nanagement, remote service disconnect, amper detection, and other uses help justify he system, but there still is a wide margin between system costs and resulting savings. Electric utilities still cannot afford to pay iresent-day prices for AMR systems. Manufacturers, on the other hand, cannot cut costs to n affordable level at the present level of proluction. To overcome this stalemate, utilities Mist apph the technology to high cost applicaions, such as remote reading of inaccessible leters or remote turnoff in high customer turniver areas. If a large number of utilities lake his approach, the effect will be a large comosite order that can justify large scale producion facilities.

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