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St. Johns River Water Management District Fiscal Year 2015-2016 Cost Share Program Indian River County Department of Utility Services Advanced Metering Infrastructure (AMI) for Water Conservation Additional Information Project Information at a Glance The proposed project is to retrofit 1,000 manual read residential potable water meters with Advanced Metering Infrastructure (AMI). IRCDUS has already worked with a consultant to evaluate the viability of an AMI retrofit for the entire service area consisting of 47,000 meters. It was determined that there are several systems available that would accommodate the needs of IRCDUS. Since there is already an expansive fiber optic network, along with many data flow antennas and three above ground storage tanks in the IRCDUS service area it was determined that the investment in infrastructure related to transmitting the reads will be minimal in relation to the overall project. The entire project will consist of three phases. The initial phase of this project targets 1,000 residential meters selected from IRCDUS's highest volumetric residential customers. Ultimately, IRCDUS intends to install the AMI system countywide. IRCDUS will utilize the initial phase to perfect the integration of the AMI software with their current billing system. Once that is working proficiently, IRCDUS would complete implementation of the 47,000 meters in three phases. AMI systems accurately track water use at the customer level so that multiple readings can be analyzed hourly, daily, weekly, monthly, and yearly. The technology that AMI systems utilize will allow IRCDUS to efficiently monitor water leaks and customer water use. Thus IRCUDS will be able reduce wasteful and unreasonable uses of water by setting parameters for water use and notifying customers whenever they are outside of those parameters. The AMI project will benefit four of the District's core mission areas: water conservation, water supply, water quality, and natural systems. The primary benefit of the AMI system is conserving water supply by reducing customer demands. IRCDUS' AMI system will allow for efficient monitoring of customer level real-time water use. This data will be used to identify excessive water use, Teaks, illegal water consumption, and irrigation that violates the St. Johns River Water Management District's (SJRWMD) watering restrictions. The reductions in water use will thereby reduce IRCDUS withdrawals from the Upper Floridan Aquifer. Reducing water used in irrigation will protect water quality from irrigation runoff that carries fertilizer, pesticides, herbicides and soil runoff. Reducing this runoff will also reduce the nitrogen and phosphorous loading of the area's natural systems, most notably, the Indian River Lagoon. More about the Technology and Methodology AMI is a transformative investment in data and information. Information from an AMI system can be used to boost revenues through early detection of illegal water use, continually access the accuracy of the meters over their life span, quickly identify failing meters, detect customer side leaks, identify customer level violations of SJRWMD watering restrictions, and improve customer satisfaction. An AMI system encompasses many different components. In order to make radio transmission of real-time