Connectivity is everywhere, and it’s more essential than ever. Staying ahead in AMI advancements means embracing advanced metrology and sensors, smarter endpoints, increased bandwidth, robust security, and a highly reliable network. ECCO offers AMI solutions to deliver all this and more, empowering you to keep pace with the demands of modern connectivity.

The Challenge: Remote Monitoring in AMI Systems

One of the significant challenges in managing AMI systems is ensuring consistent and reliable pressure monitoring in remote areas. These locations often lack power sources or land-based communication infrastructure, leading to increased operational costs, frequent truck rolls, and potential disruptions in service.

Solution: The Sensus® Smart Gateway

The Sensus® Smart Gateway addresses these challenges head-on. Designed to integrate seamlessly with the Sensus® FlexNet® communication network, this gateway allows AMI systems to connect to various applications in remote locations, ensuring accurate and reliable pressure monitoring without the need for extensive infrastructure.

Key Benefits of the Sensus® Smart Gateway for AMI  

– Real-Time Management:The Sensus® Smart Gateway provides AMI systems with the ability to monitor pressure in real time. It transmits data instantly, allowing for quick detection of high or low-pressure levels, which helps to reduce downtime and maintain seamless operation.

– Secure and Compliant: Security is a top priority in AMI systems. The Sensus® Smart Gateway ensures data protection through robust encryption, safeguarding your system against cyber threats and ensuring compliance with industry standards.

– Cost Efficiency: By automating data collection, the Sensus® Smart Gateway minimizes the need for manual interventions, such as truck rolls, thereby reducing operational costs and improving data accuracy.

– Scalability: As your AMI system expands, the Sensus® Smart Gateway can scale accordingly, integrating into your existing infrastructure without requiring costly upgrades or overhauls.

Why the Sensus® Smart Gateway is Essential for AMI  

The Sensus® Smart Gateway is a vital component of a comprehensive AMI solution. It leverages the powerful Sensus® FlexNet® communication network, a long-range radio system designed to support Smart Cities, Smart Water, Smart Grid, and Smart Gas applications. Whether you’re expanding an existing network or adding new devices, the Sensus® Smart Gateway offers the flexibility and reliability needed to meet current demands and future growth.

Features That Enhance AMI Systems

– Remote Pressure Monitoring: Ensure real-time pressure monitoring across your AMI system, even in the most remote locations.

– High and Low-Pressure Alarms: Receive immediate alerts when pressure deviates from expected levels, allowing for prompt corrective action.

– Real-Time Data Transmission: Benefit from up-to-date data that supports informed decision-making and operational efficiency.

– Outage Management and Distribution Automation: Improve system reliability by managing outages and automating distribution processes remotely.

– Lower Operational Costs: Reduce the need for additional infrastructure and lower operational expenses with a system that requires no additional power line installations.

– FlexNet® Enabled: Seamlessly integrate the Sensus® Smart Gateway with the Sensus® FlexNet® network, ensuring reliable communication and data transmission across your AMI system.

– Intrinsically Safe Design: Suitable for hazardous environments, the gateway is built to be safe for use in Division 1, Class 2 applications.

– Efficient Data Reporting: With 15-minute data sampling reported six times a day, you gain a comprehensive overview of your system’s performance.

Empowering AMI Systems with Smarter Infrastructure

The Sensus® Smart Gateway is more than just a monitoring tool—it’s an integral part of building a smarter, more responsive AMI system. By integrating this gateway into your infrastructure, you’re not only improving operational efficiency and reducing costs, but you’re also enabling a more connected, data-driven approach to managing your system.

With the Sensus® FlexNet® communication network at its core, the Sensus® Smart Gateway ensures that your AMI system can access accurate data, maintain consistent billing, and provide better service to end users, all while keeping operational costs low and scalability high. The Sensus® Smart Gateway is key to unlocking these benefits, ensuring your AMI system is ready to meet the challenges of today and tomorrow.

Sensus® FlexNet® Communication Network Featured Products

– Sensus FlexNet EasyLink Reader:

The Sensus FlexNet EasyLink™ Reader is a portable, radio-based device that efficiently collects data from utility meters with Sensus SmartPoint® modules. It enables a seamless transition to the FlexNet system while remaining compatible with existing infrastructure. Compact and user-friendly, it operates from any vehicle with a 12-volt DC power supply, ensuring reliable meter communication.

– Sensus M400B FlexNet® Base Station:

Our FlexNet® communication network connects base stations directly to endpoints across large geographic areas. This, greatly reduces the number of network backhaul connections and lowers operations and maintenance costs. The FlexNet network delivers double the transmit power of competitive systems over primary-use licensed spectrum – ensuring reliability for mission-critical applications.

– Sensus Sonix IQ:

Sonix IQ provides the pinpoint accuracy of ultrasonic measurement for residential gas metering. Designed to meet rigorous standards required for outdoor installations in North America, this solid state meter has no moving parts to replace or wear out over time. It boasts dual-class metrology; the same size meter can cover either 250 CFH or 425 CFH needs. And with an available FlexNet® radio integrated inside the meter housing – the Sonix IQ packs in value within a compact size.

– Sensus EasyLink Workbook Application:

The FlexNet EasyLink™ WorkBook application provides on-screen mapping for for the FlexNet EasyLink™ Mobile Communications solution. WorkBook allows utilities to simultaneously read both Sensus SmartPoint® modules and Itron ERTs in a drive-by environment. WorkBook enhances vehicle-based meter reading and allows the end-user to view routes and their status.

– Sensus Sentrypoint Bullhorn RM4160:

Sensus and American Innovations teamed up to offer a device that measures rectifier AC and DC charges and transmits that data over the FlexNet® communication network. The Bullhorn RM4160 covers your impressed current-protected pipe sections, allowing you to configure high and low thresholds to alert you to out-of-range values.

– Sensus SmartPoint GM Industrial Transceiver:

The FlexNet® SmartPoint® GM transceiver for industrial applications harnesses the power of two-way communications, connecting gas utilities with their customers, for exceptional business-to-business service.

– Sensus R100NA FlexNet Collector:

The R100NA FlexNet® collector provides fill-in network coverage for groups of meters in hard-to-reach locations. The R100NA reduces the need for costly walk-by/drive-by end point reads in “blind spots,” or a complex mix of communication methods. One hundred percent AMI coverage is now more attainable and cost effective than ever.

 

The Sensus® Smart Gateway revolutionizes AMI systems by enabling real-time pressure monitoring in remote areas without the need for extensive infrastructure, significantly reducing operational costs and the need for truck rolls. Seamlessly integrating with the Sensus® FlexNet® communication network, this gateway ensures secure, reliable data transmission and scalability, making it an essential tool for modern utilities seeking to enhance operational efficiency, reduce costs, and meet the growing demands of smart infrastructure.

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