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A Resolution Of The City Commission Of The City Of Hollywood, Florida, Approving And Authorizing The Appropriate City Officials To Execute A Supplemental Services Agreement With Aclara Technologies, LLC. To Diagnose, Repair, Remove, And Replace Advanced Metering Infrastructure System Components At Approximately 840 Water Service Locations In The City In An Estimated Amount Of $97,050.54 Based Upon Section 38.41(C)(9) Of The Procurement Code (Best Interest); Amending The Fiscal Year 2022 Adopted Operating Budget.
Strategic Plan Focus
Infrastructure & Facilities
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Staff Recommends: Approval of the attached Resolution.
Explanation:
The Department of Public Utilities ("Department") owns, operates, and maintains an advanced metering infrastructure ("AMI") system that records, collects, and transmits water consumption data to the Department's billing system. Briefly, the Department's AMI System consists of a water meter with a register to record water consumption at each service location. The water consumption data recorded by each register is collected and transmitted by a meter transmission unit ("MTU") to a network of Data Collection Units ("DCU").
The Department's AMI system was installed between 2009 and 2012 and consists of approximately 41,500 MTUs, and 34 DCUs. These DCUs transmit consumption data to the Aclara Technologies LLC, (the vendor, "Aclara") Meter Data Management System called AclaraSTAR, which interfaces with the City's billing system MUNIS that generates monthly billing data. Since then, approximately 10,771 Legacy 501 MTUs were replaced by Aclara under warranty or by the City. However, in 2018 the production of Legacy 501 MTUs was discontinued. Thereafter, approximately 11,330 Legacy 501 MTUs (27% of the system) were replaced by the newer Series 3400 units under warranty by Aclara or by the City.
The Department's AMI system currently has approximately 19,350 Legacy 501 MTUs remaining that are failing at a high rate due to ...
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