Why AMR?
AMR is more than just reading your meter remotely. An AMR system provides many other direct and indirect benefits that help the utility and their customers, not the least of which is costs savings. As energy prices have risen sharply in the past few months, keeping our costs down for our customers has become even more important.
Although features and benefits vary by manufacturer, some allow you access to information that used to be difficult or impossible to obtain such as your own historical usage data or outage data that you can view or download at your convenience. If your utility provider is implementing AMR, check with them to determine the feature list and benefits. They will be glad to tell you all about AMR.