The Function Of A Remote Water Meter Reading Device
At ABT Water Management, we provide smart meters and utility billing services to landlords and property managers for apartments, condos, manufactured homes and even for commercial properties with tenants.
The smart meters themselves will transmit data through a wireless signal. However, just like your smartphone, tablet or any internet connected device, the WiFi range is limited.
In the case of smart meters, there is a WAN or wide area network where all smart meters within the specific range of the WAN can communicate with a remote water meter reading device. This is not a WiFi signal amplifier or any other technology, but rather a way to capture the data from the WAN and transmit it, again using wireless technology to our utility billing company.
Security Concerns
There are always a lot of security concerns for users, particularly when they have been misinformed the smart meters are capturing information about the use of individual appliances in a home and sending the information to a remote water meter reading device.
Smart meters do not have the capability to individually track use of each appliance. Just like the old analog meters, all they can track is total usage for the home or the unit.
Additionally, when it comes to transmitting information to a remote water meter reading device, everything sent with encryption. This encryption prevents any intercepted data from being viewed by a third party, and it is only the actual use data without any personal information, which sent through the encrypted, secure communication pathways.
By understanding the functioning of the system, it is easy to see how myths and misunderstandings through online blogs and theories, can easily cause confusion. Today’s remote water reading and billing systems are efficient, effective and secure. To learn more about smart meter technology, visit the ABT Water Management news and articles section.