AbstractAre You Smarter Than A ... Smart Meter?Track: Water, Wastewater, and Storm Water Author The City of San Marcos is pleased to relate an overview of how its Public Services department recently implemented a smart grid system for its water and electric utilities. After a short overview of smart grid technologies, this paper focuses specifically on the benefits and challenges that confront municipal water utilities in establishing an advanced metering infrastructure, and how GIS can be used as both a tracking and analytical tool. This presentation will provide you with a combination of success stories along with anecdotes on the many challenges that had to be overcome along the way, in which the City had to continually outsmart the smart grid! This case study offers tips and insights on how water distribution departments can deploy a smart water metering system of their own, and will address issues relating to physical deployment to the field, customer expectations, IT, data issues, security concerns, and cross-departmental communication. William Flynn City of San Marcos 630 E Hopkins San Marcos, Texas 78666 United States Phone: 512-393-8028 Fax: 512-392-2625 E-mail: wflynn@sanmarcostx.gov Ron Diaz City of San Marcos 630 East Hopkins San Marcos, Texas 78666 United States Phone: 5123938030 E-mail: rdiaz@sanmarcostx.gov |