Gas Utility Management System
Hybrid AMR/AMI
Industry trends indicate the future of utility meter reading will be found in flexible AMR solutions that can adapt to the ever-changing technology climate. Hybrid systems that are able to communicate with the constantly increasing number of public and other wide area wireless networks may have additional advantages to your utility, both today and far into the future. With this in mind, utilities are more interested than ever in ensuring the AMR system they purchase today will provide long-term value and reliability, laying a solid foundation for future advances in transmitter, receiver, and network technologies.
To ensure the Badger® ORION® AMR system remains in the forefront of utility meter reading technology, Badger Meter has developed, and continues to develop, close alliances with a wide variety of leading manufacturers of public and private networks. These alliances form the basis for a simple and effective multiple migration strategy, allowing utilities all the advantages of premier mobile AMR today, with the benefit of moving to hybrid and other fixed network technologies with the simple addition of the ORION Gateway Receiver – and without the need to reprogram meter endpoints.