CITY COUNCIL AGENDA ITEM
ACTION REQUESTED:
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Approve the award of Change Order #2 to Contract 19-214, Water Advanced Metering Infrastructure (AMI) Project, to Core & Main LP for an additional 180 days (Item 1 of 2)
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DEPARTMENT: Water Utilities
SUBMITTED BY: Darrell Blenniss, Director
BOARD/COMMISSION REVIEW:
N/A
BACKGROUND:
Core & Main, an authorized distributor of Sensus USA, Inc, provides for integration of the Sensus software with the City's various IT systems and provides for purchase and installation of approximately 43,500 MIUs which allow for transmission of water usage data to three elevated base stations, or DCUs. The base stations pass the data to an interface, which gathers and processes network data that sends it to the City's existing data management software used by the Electric Utility.
On September 1, 2020, the City Council awarded Contract 19-214 to Core & Main LP to install AMI hardware, including meter interface units (MIUs) and data collection units (DCU's), AMI head end, and integrating the City's Meter Data Management System (MDMS) and associated software for a complete system.
DISCUSSION:
Installations of the meter interface units are substantially complete, but the software integration effort continues. The first phase of software integration was completed earlier this year and included the integration between the Sensus Regional Network Interface (RNI) and the City's billing software (Naviline). This integration allowed for the wireless meter reads to be captured in our billing system so staff can generate monthly customer bills with the data.
The second phase of software integration between the Sensus RNI, Harris Meter Data Management System (MDMS) and Naviline is still ongoing. The MDMS provides a platform for long-term meter data storage and data analytics, allowing staff to better understand consumption patterns to proactively address issues. Additionally, the Empower customer portal will leverage these integra...
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