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Gas AMI Essential

Gas AMI Essential

Gas AMI Essential

Product catalog summary
Overview
Itron's AMI Essentials is a bundled Advanced Metering Infrastructure (AMI) solution designed for small-to-medium-sized gas utilities in the United States. It aims to simplify the deployment process and provide significant benefits without the complexity of a large-scale implementation.

Key Features and Benefits
  • Detailed Data Collection: Offers frequent data collection, including daily register reads and hourly interval data, enhancing meter-to-cash operations.
  • Move-in and Move-out: Enables remote management of service connections and disconnections from the back office.
  • Real-time Alarms: Provides real-time notifications for field issues, helping maintain network health and identify anomalies.
  • Customer Service and Engagement: Improves customer service by providing access to account data and usage visualization, and offers a web portal for customers to monitor usage and receive alerts.

Product Overview
  • Flexible Billing and Deployment: Supports flexible billing options and deployment strategies, including cellular solutions for high-value customers and hard-to-access areas.
  • Solution Elements: Includes a cellular network communications platform, Itron cellular gas communication modules, hosted software, and deployment services.
  • Reliable Network: Utilizes Verizon's cellular network infrastructure, with plans to expand to additional carriers, providing a cost-effective solution for augmenting existing services.

Technical Specifications
  • Endpoints: Supports advanced two-way communications and RF communications, allowing for hybrid configurations with RF Mesh and cellular endpoints.
  • Standard Configurations: Offers multiple configuration options for the Cellular 500G gas module, with varying read intervals and frequencies.

Security and Deployment
  • Enterprise-Class Security: Ensures data security through industry-standard encryption, automated key rotation, and cryptographically signed firmware.
  • Deployment Services: Includes project management, system testing, application configuration, and training services provided by Itron's Global Delivery Services teams and certified partners.

Conclusion
Itron AMI Essentials for gas is designed to meet the evolving needs of gas utilities, providing a scalable solution that supports current and future business cases. It is optimal for utilities with less than 200,000 metering endpoints, offering operational efficiencies and cost savings.
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Catalog excerpts

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Gas AMI Essentials Deploy and unlock value-based outcomes, and establish a foundation for your smart gas distribution networks For small-and medium-sized gas utilities that provide utility service to tightly knit communities, an Advanced Metering Infrastructure (AMI) deployment doesn’t have to be a multi-year, functionally overwhelming and organizationally staggering experience. AMI Essentials for gas is Itron’s standard bundled AMI solution, tailored to better serve small-to-medium-sized gas utilities in the United States. Through AMI Essentials, you can reap benefits with the following use cases: » Detailed data collection: Your meter-to-cash operations benefit from frequent and detailed data collection, such as daily register reads and hourly interval data. » Move-in and Move-out: Performed over the network from the back office. » Real-time alarms: Itron Cellular 500G gas endpoints provide real-time alarm/event notifications, which help you promptly identify field issues, maintain a healthy network and gain insights to anomalies. » Customer service: Your Customer Service team can quickly access account data and visualize customer usage to improve call center support and quickly resolve billing issues. Gas Utilities Cellular Networks Serving Customers with <200,000 Endpoints Itron’s bundled Cellular AMI offering for the United States market with a focus on small- and medium-sized gas utilities. » Customer engagement: The customer web portal allows your customers to monitor their usage over time (for budgeting). It also proactively issues alerts to customers to notify them of abnormal usage and to help reduce billing complaints.

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» Flexible billing support: Daily data exports from Temetra to your customer information system (CIS) enable you to offer more flexible billing options to your residential and commercial customers. » Flexible deployment options: Flexibility to deploy a cellular solution to high-value C&I customers and hard-to-access mobile reading routes. Itron AMI Essentials for gas is a fully integrated, end-to-end AMI solution that includes a cellular network communications platform with Itron cellular gas communication modules (endpoints), hosted software and deployment services. Gas distribution modernization...

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COMMAND AND CONTROL FROM THE BACK OFFICE Temetra’s straightforward approach to integration facilitates data exchanges with other back-office business systems that rely on specific metering and event data. Such systems include billing systems, asset management systems and work order management systems. These exchanges keep your back-office systems synchronized and ensure that your billing system receives the right data at the right time. Deployment Services Itron’s experienced Global Delivery Services teams and certified channel partners provide the necessary services to manage the deployment...

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