Solution

Walk By/ Drive By
Based on Arad's innovative AMR/AMI (automatic meter reading/advanced metering infrastructure) system Dialog3G, its solutions take advantage of advanced transmitting meters which send signals at frequent intervals (every 11 seconds).
The wireless device is read automatically and immediately shows a problem that requires attendance. The reader receives alerts on conditions such as disconnected meters, leaks and reverse flows, thus reducing costs and improving customer satisfaction.

Key Benefits

• Proven reliability
• Upgradable to fixed network with no change to meters
• No need to activate the meter
• Meters can store up to 4,000 previous calls
• Real-time allerts

Drive By

The Arad Group's most popular solution offers innovative Drive By automated data reading and collection system, enabling cost-effective and efficient smart water meter reading. Arad's Drive By data collection solution offers users efficient coverage of large areas in the shortest time. The remote reading device, installed in the vehicle, automatically collects all readings from nearby water meters equipped with Arad's advanced wireless transmitting technology. The system can read more than a thousand water meters per hour, using a single reader in a suburban area, and even more from high-rise buildings. Arad meters are read efficiently and reliably even from underground pits. For improving operational efficiency, a 10-month reading history is provided by the meters, enabling the establishment of different water tariff systems. Arad's navigation software enables the designing of the most efficient reading routes, thus saving fuel and labor and lowering carbon footprints.

Walk By

The Arad Group offers innovative remote Walk By automated reading systems to be used in places inaccessible to vehicles, for economical and efficient smart water meter reading. Designed to meet the specific needs of water companies and utilities, Arad's Walk By remote data collection solutions offer users the ability to gather all the required information through a handheld portable receiving unit. The advanced system eliminates the need for physical access or visual inspection of water meters, allowing companies to gather data from meters located in places that are not easily accessible.

Fixed network AMR

Fixed Network The Arad Group offers fully implemented, comprehensive remote meter-reading solutions for fixed base systems, allowing utilities and water corporations to automatically control remote water meters in real time. Based on Arad's innovative AMR/AMI (automatic meter reading/advanced metering infrastructure) Control System Dialog3G, its fixed network solution offers diverse options for automated data collection.

Key benefits:

• Proven success in reducing non revenue water (NRW) significantly
• Already installed in hundreds of utilities
• Real-time information availability
• Highly accurate and reliable data collection
• Many kinds of real-time alerts
• Integrates with most billing systems
• Wide variety of features for reports and statistical analysis

Arad's solutions combine extensive experience and advanced wireless abilities with powerful Meter Data Management software tools. The advanced system requires no physical access or visual inspection of meters and provides alerts in real time on problems such as water loss or pipe breakage.

The system consists of the following components:

• Wireless transmitting meters
• Data collection alignment
• Meter Data Management software package
• A large number of utilities and municipalities around the world are already using Arad's all-inclusive solution for unnecessary loss of water, thereby reducing costs and increasing efficiency.

Dialog Cellular GPRS solution

Dialog Cellular
Arad Group's innovative Dialog Cellular is a remote water automatic meter reading (AMR) system providing a perfect solution for remote data collection and advanced meter functionality for isolated locations. Dialog Cellular is the most advanced solution in the market, and can be connected to digital, analog and Dialog 3G water meters. With a built-in GPRS Modem, the Dialog 3G Cellular uses available cellular networks for transmitting metering data to control centers.

The self-powered unit transmits accumulated data numerous times each day. Users can, at any time, find out exactly what is happening in their water supply network and react immediately to any crisis or alert condition.

Dialog Cellular alerts for, among others:

• Leaks
• Tampering
• High and low flows
• Water level pressure

Dialog Cellular key benefits:

• Covers "out of the way" meters
• Digital and analog programmable inputs
• Tamper alarms
• Control outputs
• Accumulated meter reading data
• Rate of flow indication and alerts
• Water supply loss calculation and indication

Dialog Cellular has been proven to be a super-reliable product installed in tens of thousands locations around the world. Mekorot, Israel's national water company, has successfully installed 12,000 units for all of its consumer connections and uses the system to generate water bills and for balancing the water network.

City Mind - Meter Data Management

Arad Group offers powerful Web-based meter data management solutions to help utilities and water companies supervise, manage and control their metering networks. The CityMind solution, which is based on Arad's innovative remote automatic meter reading (AMR) system Dialog3G, provides a varied collection of reports and statistical analyses. The system offers real-time location specific alerts on breaches, leaks and suspected theft and interfaces seamlessly with automated software systems. Arad's solution is based on a special algorithm, written in cooperation with IBM water management professionals, to ensure the most accurate, reliable and comprehensive data mining.

City Mind's key benefits:

• The most advanced water meter reading management
• Real-time detection of alert situations
• Availability of numerous reports and statistics
• Operational effectiveness
• Accurate and reliable algorithms

CityMind collects water data and enables the remote control of every meter in the area. This advanced system allows utilities to manage, in a simple and friendly way, a continuous follow-up of its activities at any given moment and to automatically organize tables, graphs and reports such as comparative consumption, history deviation, and so on.

CityMind, which is already used by a large number of water utilities worldwide, provides a "live" map of the city, presenting all statuses and alerts in a simple graphical view. CityMind also includes a comprehensive system covering all aspects of billing and payment automatically. The easy-to-use online Internet-based software solution is compatible with most existing billing software, including SAP and salesforce.com.

CityMind is a Web-based system, therefore available from any connected computer. The system offers Web portal access to consumers, enabling them to access their metering status anywhere, anytime, upon authorization. This transparency has been proven to significantly reduce calls to the utility's service center.

• Accumulated meter reading data
• Rate of flow indication and alerts
• Water supply loss calculation and indication

Dialog Cellular has been proven to be a super-reliable product installed in tens of thousands locations around the world. Mekorot, Israel's national water company, has successfully installed 12,000 units for all of its consumer connections and uses the system to generate water bills and for balancing the water network.