5-Minute Survey on Data Reports from AMI (Advanced Metering Infrastructure)

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To help improve data reports from Advanced Metering Infrastructure (AMI) systems, please take a few minutes to fill out this short survey. Thank you!

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About this survey

The survey's focus is on data use from AMI systems. The survey's goal is to gain information about the common needs of water agencies for 3 to 5 key data reports generated from AMI systems. The responses from the survey will assist in development of routine AMI-generated data reports.

Who is the target participant in this survey?
Staff at water agencies who work with AMI metering data and generate routine reports from the data. The reports may be used for water system operations, monitoring, or maintenance. Some examples of uses of AMI data reports include temporal comparisons and tracking trends in: water supply, demand, use-sector consumption, water loss, meter maintenance, and customer efficiency or excessive use, or other needs.

What are: "routinely generated metering data reports from AMI"?
Reports with data generated directly from an AMI system that contain specific information about the water system commonly used by water staff for internal and external reporting. For example, monthly or annual data reports to management, directors, customers, and regulators.

1. What metering method(s) does your agency currently use and expects to use in the next 2 years? Please check all that apply. *

Manual – we drive to meter, visually check it, manually write down the meter reading.

AMR – we drive to meter, use handheld device to electronically upload meter read

AMI – we obtain meter data electronically to our computers via AMI system network

I don't know

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If you answered “I don't know”, please do not continue filling out this survey. Thank you.

2. Water Agency Name, state, contact email *

3. Which 5 of the following best describe your agency's primary uses for your AMI metering data? *

We use AMI data for customer billing

We use AMI data for tracking total system water demand

We use AMI data for identifying system maintenance needs

We use AMI data for communicating with customers about their use, potential leaks, excessive use

We use AMI data for tracking demand of specific water use sectors

We use AMI data for reports to management

We use AMI data for reports to regulatory agencies

We DO NOT use AMI data for reports

We use AMI data for tracking demand from all water sources

We use AMI data for tracking total system water supply

We use AMI data for tracking underperforming meters

Other:

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4. Which 3 of the following best describes your agency's primary reports generated from AMI metering data? *

Water demand for internal use

Water demand in specific sectors for internal use

Water demand for reports to regulatory agencies

Meter health for meter maintenance

Water conservation tracking

Water use by customers for billing

We DO NOT use AMI data for reports

Other:

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5. Other than for billing, which 2 of the following best describes your agency's primary workflow for obtaining consistent, reliable, and accurate metering data for routine internal reports and/or to regulatory agencies? *

We request most metering data using direct queries (electronically) in the AMI, AMR, or metering database system

We download metering data from the metering database into CSV or Excel files, then staff (manually) generate charts and data tables

We ask staff from billing or finance or metering to supply the data, then we download the data into spreadsheets to generate tables and charts from it

Other:

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6. For your agency's routinely used reports that include metering data, would agency staff use data reports generated directly from the AMI system without having to request a report from other staff or downloading data into spreadsheet? *

Yes, but we will need training to learn how to obtain the reports

No, we don't trust reports generated from AMI

Maybe, if we can be sure the data are consistently reliable and accurate

Maybe, but we want to find out more about this topic

No, we don't use routine data reports

Yes, but our current method works well

Thank you for your time and responses!

For more information, please contact Marty Laporte at: ManageWaterNow@gmail.com

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