Gabriel Dominguez, Water Conservation Coordinator, City of Georgetown - Presentation at Texas Water Foundation, Central Texas Water Conservation Symposium February 26, 2013

1. Meter
Data
Management
&
AquaAlerts
(ElectSolve)

2. Meter
Data
Management
City Of Georgetown (TEXAS) deployed the nation’s first AMR/MDM
system for both electric and water meters in the mid ‘90s.

3. AMR
Auto Meter
Reading Old System
The original ElectSolve
MDM is being upgraded to
ElectSolve’s uCentra
Operational Data
Management System
(ODMS) to maximize
business operations with
easy access to critical
meter and utility system
data from operational
systems: AMI (Advance Meter
Infrastructure) AMR (Automated Meter
Reads) CIS (Customer Information
System) SCADA (Supervisory Control
and Data Acquisition) OMS (Outage
Management System) GIS (Geographic
Information System).

4. Water
Conserva5on
Pilot
2009
Ø Peak demand for treated water is at capacity (2008)
§ Current capacity is 27 million gallons per day (MGD)
§ Average day demand for 2008 was 10 MGD
§ Peak demand for 2008 was 28 MGD
Ø Peak demand is caused by landscape irrigation

5. Data
collected
Ø Daily water usage
Ø Monthly water usage
Ø Historical water usage
Ø Irrigation area (GIS)
Ø Irrigation controller settings

6. ElectSolve
Reading
(Customer
Informa5on)
XXX
Trail
Of
The
Flowers
Date Register Gal
Sun,9/30/2012 12:00AM 1752 0.1
Mon, 10/1/2012 12:00AM 1754 2.25
Tue, 10/2/2012 12:00AM 1754 0.07
Wed, 10/3/2012 12:00AM 1757 2.38
Thu, 10/4/2012 12:00AM 1757 0.14
Fri, 10/5/2012 12:00AM 1759 2.17
Sat, 10/6/2012 12:00AM 1759 0.09

7. With AquaAlerts, the
customers decide the
amount of water use
after which they will be
alerted. For instance if
they wish to be e-
mailed after they have
used 10,000 gallons of
water in a single billing
month> Once they use
10,000 gallons, they
will be alert with a e-
mail letting them know.

8. With AquaAlerts and GIS systems
working together we are able to see
High use area
(GIS Map)
(AquaAlerts Site)
This map show some of are
customers that are taking part of
the AquaMessenger System

9. Irrigation
Audit
• Tune ups and renovations of
home sprinklers greatly
improve water coverage.
• New technologies will likely
result in improved water
management.
• An irrigation audit can point to
where water savings can be
achieved.

10. Ques5on
?