Title
Approving the procurement of meter registers and components as well as construction services for the Automated Meter Infrastructure (AMI) project to Core and Main using their HGACBuy contract in the amount of $1,563,691.73, and authorizing the City Manager to execute the same.
Summary
As part of the City’s 5-year CIP, our water meter infrastructure was identified to be upgraded to an Automated Metering Infrastructure (AMI) network from our existing Automatic Meter Reading (AMR) system. The objective of the project is to improve the accuracy of our current meters, add infrastructure to bring water use data into a single system, and to provide City of Pflugerville water customers with a portal to be able to see their water usage in real-time.
The current AMR network requires staff to drive around to gather meter readings in specified zones on specific days of the month. This also requires staff to individually go to specific streets depending on the signal capability of the older registers and meter boxes. This existing network also requires Meter Shop staff to respond to Utility Billing and customer requests for verifying readings as needed. This network also doesn’t give customers a lot of control over their usage and being able to see how much water they use on a given day to try and tailor their usage. The migration to AMI will minimize staff time to collect meter reading while also giving both staff and customers a way to view water usage in near real-time to aid in our conservation efforts and to give customers better control of their water usage to set alerts as needed to be notified if there is a leak before it is a large problem.
As part of the first phase of the AMI project, the contractor finalized installation of the entire Neptune collector network that was needed to support the full integration of AMI meters throughout the City's current water service area. This collector network is currently in place and bringing some of the data ba...
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