Water Meters installation start date?

martineire

Can anyone tell me when are the installation of water meter due to start? I hear they are out for tender in june but when will they start installing? Thanks;)

paulaa

Ours was installed last September

Gobo Fraggle

I have seen a lot of these installed country wide already.:p

I dont think this will be the big employment scheme. A lot of people think it will.:(

I think the courses been provided for these installations. Was a good money making idea for the company suppling the course.:D

martineire

I have not seen any installed (domestic) down my way, i heard on the wireless that they were going out for tender in june.

Solair

They'll have fun installing ours. We have never been able to locate the stopcock on the mains !!

JohnnieK

You can bet your bottom dollar the large Civils contractors will get the contracts, and for every ones information you dont need to be certified to install them. As someone mentioned hear it's a big money spinner for the training schools.
I'm a self employed plumber and I still get calls to buy courses for installing them:rolleyes:. I could do it with my eye's closed.
The new domestic meter boxes could be done by the home owner it's that simple.

deandean

Are the new meters going in, outside on the road (at the stopcock) or in the house?

martineire

Outside on the road.

drunken_munky52

Has anyone come across "Automatic Meter Reading" yet? Could be handy for reading water meters remotely. Anyone know if these are been installed in any cases?

Dardania

Certain water meters can be got with reed flow switches, which can be pulsed to a data concentator - handy on commercial installations

drunken_munky52

Could very well be handy for alerting a water consumer to the presence of a leak in the system to begin with.

According to a leak detection company:

"Automated Meter Reading or AMR, is the technology of automatically collecting consumption data from a water meter and transferring that data to a central database for analysing. This technology mainly eleminates the need for periodic trips a physical location to read a meter. Another advantage is that consumption rates can be crossed referenced to estimates based on past or predicted consumption at regular intervals, thereby alerting the monitor to any abnormal consumption, that might indicate the presence of a leak."

Also they go onto say:

"Pulsed data from a water meter can displayed in a suitable format on a computer screen using the desired network architecture and protocol. The data can be utilsed in a SCADA system or other telemetry system. A program can be setup up with a trend for monitoring consumption rates over set periodic intervals, as well as an alarm which will alert an operator when a consumption rate exceeds a predetermined set-point."

I can definitively see further opportunities spurring as a result of something that is been resisted by the general public, but once they get used to the idea I'd say the integration of water meters into smart networks will become the defacto within a few years.