Building Compelling Business Cases for Digital Water Metering
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Monks, Ian
Stewart, Rodney A
Sahin, Oz
Keller, Robert
Year published
2021
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Business cases often strain to identify enough benefits to cover costs of digital water metering (DWM), consisting of advanced metering infrastructure and data analytics. An Australian study in 2020 identified 77 benefits of DWM, potentially generating cost savings and customer satisfaction improvements. Modeling software makes projections of monetary savings over the DWM project life cycle and considers customer satisfaction improvements linked to DWM deployment. Leasing meters may provide lower entry costs, shifting risks to the supplier and avoiding lock-in of today's technology for long periods to achieve acceptable ...
View more >Business cases often strain to identify enough benefits to cover costs of digital water metering (DWM), consisting of advanced metering infrastructure and data analytics. An Australian study in 2020 identified 77 benefits of DWM, potentially generating cost savings and customer satisfaction improvements. Modeling software makes projections of monetary savings over the DWM project life cycle and considers customer satisfaction improvements linked to DWM deployment. Leasing meters may provide lower entry costs, shifting risks to the supplier and avoiding lock-in of today's technology for long periods to achieve acceptable returns on investment.
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View more >Business cases often strain to identify enough benefits to cover costs of digital water metering (DWM), consisting of advanced metering infrastructure and data analytics. An Australian study in 2020 identified 77 benefits of DWM, potentially generating cost savings and customer satisfaction improvements. Modeling software makes projections of monetary savings over the DWM project life cycle and considers customer satisfaction improvements linked to DWM deployment. Leasing meters may provide lower entry costs, shifting risks to the supplier and avoiding lock-in of today's technology for long periods to achieve acceptable returns on investment.
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Journal Title
Journal AWWA
Volume
113
Issue
5
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© 2021 John Wiley and Sons. This is the peer reviewed version of the following article: Building Compelling Business Cases for Digital Water Metering, Journal AWWA, 2021, 113 (5), pp. 64-75, which has been published in final form at https://doi.org/10.1002/awwa.1728. This article may be used for non-commercial purposes in accordance with Wiley Terms and Conditions for Self-Archiving (http://olabout.wiley.com/WileyCDA/Section/id-828039.html)
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Chemical engineering
Civil engineering
Science & Technology
Physical Sciences
Engineering, Civil
Water Resources