In 2020, Savannah awarded UPA a contract to collect GPS, photographic and endpoint data for about 29,000 water-meter sites.
An asset inventory depends on consistent fields and traceable locations. Savannah’s purchasing record set out what its water-meter survey would collect and how the data would feed the city’s asset inventory.
Define coordinate requirements, attributes, photographs, exception records, file format and acceptance testing before collection starts. Keep required accuracy and achieved accuracy separate in every project report.
Savannah’s contract covered about 29,000 water-meter sites. The city hasn’t published the accepted results or the accuracy achieved.
In 2020, the City of Savannah awarded UPA a contract to collect GPS, photographic and endpoint data for approximately 29,000 water-meter sites.
Source: Savannah purchasing summary: water meter data collection, May 14, 2020.
Use the programs above to judge relevant experience, and ask us for current capacity and qualifications for your contract.
Each phase is agreed with the utility. Durations, staffing, service levels and acceptance rules depend on the contract.
Straight answers for utility teams. Customers with a question about an appointment should start with their utility.
Savannah’s contract called for GPS locations, photographs, endpoint or radio type and visual site details at water-meter sites. Other assets and attributes can be added in your scope.
Yes, if the data requirements are written into the installation or survey scope. Savannah’s data contract was a separate job; not every AMI program is a GIS project.
Savannah’s specification called for sub-meter GPS. A specification isn’t proof of the accuracy achieved, and the accepted results haven’t been published.
Savannah’s contract fed data into CityWorks. Confirm current software, export formats and integration with us; UPA doesn’t claim Esri partner status.
Not yet. Savannah’s work was meter-specific. Pole or transformer inventories need their own reference and delivery specification.
Ask for current licenses for the work and the state, insurance and bonding documents, crew training records, and EMR, TRIR and DART figures with their dates and definitions. Ask us for the current documents that match your scope.
The public records behind the figures on this page.
Utility operations
Consistency depends on a committed workforce paired with reliable systems.
Metering insights
UPA built AMI Lifecycle Management to manage metering infrastructure after the Advanced Metering Infrastructure (AMI) installation ends.
Utility operations
By now, the rapid aging of the current utility infrastructure in the United States is well-documented.
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