Greentech Lead Europe: Itron has signed a contract to
deploy its water meters and fixed network infrastructure with Servicii Comunale
Floresti, the water utility servicing several municipalities, in Moldova. The
utility will install more than 11,000 advanced residential water meters
equipped with communication modules, as well as the fixed network
infrastructure over the course of six months beginning later this year.
“As part of our water distribution network modernization
project, mainly financed by the World Bank and European Bank of Reconstruction
and Development, we decided to select Itron to implement high-end metering
technologies and the EverBlu advanced data collection system. Itron’s wireless
solution is ideally suited to our needs for collecting data from hard-to-read
meters in urban and semi-rural areas,” said Sergiu Rusu, director of Servicii
Comunale Floresti. Â
Servicii Comunale Floresti will replace aging meters with
Itron’s advanced water meters and install new meters for new subscribers’
homes throughout the city of Floresti.  Itron’s technology enables
the utility to improve distribution network efficiency and optimize
billing processes.
Consumption data will be transmitted through the fixed
network. The automation of the entire meter reading process will greatly reduce
operational costs and improve efficiency.
“This contract with Servicii Comunale Floresti
demonstrates the benefits of Itron’s systems in emerging, high-potential
countries like Moldova. We look forward to helping build water infrastructure
in other countries in Eastern Europe so that this precious resource can be
better managed and conserved,” said Karim Bennini, regional manager for Itron’s
water division. Â
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Itron recently entered into an agreement with FortisBC,
an integrated energy solutions provider, to provide its advanced metering,
network communications and software systems to support the utility’s Advanced
Metering Infrastructure (AMI) project.
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