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Fixed‐base Technology EASES GROWING PAINS
Author(s) -
Eggen Jim
Publication year - 2006
Publication title -
journal ‐ american water works association
Language(s) - English
Resource type - Journals
SCImago Journal Rank - 0.466
H-Index - 74
eISSN - 1551-8833
pISSN - 0003-150X
DOI - 10.1002/j.1551-8833.2006.tb07562.x
Subject(s) - automatic meter reading , reading (process) , base station , computer science , base (topology) , telecommunications , data collection , metre , transfer (computing) , computer network , wireless , operating system , mathematical analysis , statistics , physics , mathematics , astronomy , political science , law
This article discusses the effort made by the city of Joliet, Illinois, to handle unprecedented growth by upgrading its meter‐reading system to the Sensus FixNet system, a wireless automatic meter reading system that uses a radio‐based, wide‐area fixed network with a single‐tier network design to securely and accurately transfer end user water use data to a data‐collection center. The four major components of the system are discussed.