Submeter Installation
Submetering is one of the most cost effective ways to reduce and recover the ever increasing utility expenses of your property. With AMBS you will no longer have to provide your tenants with free water, sewer, heat, or electric services.
When you choose to have AMBS submeter your property our team of professional installers will put a small meter into every unit. This meter will record your tenants actual usage and allow us to bill that tenant for their actual consumption. This ensures fair and accurate billing, as well as encouraging your tenants to conserve their utility consumption. If the tenant takes steps to reduce their usage they will see a direct reward by way of a lower utility bill.
AMBS submeters for all major utilities, including:
- Water
- Natural Gas
- LP Gas
- Electric
- Chilled Water
- Zone Heating
- and more
Asset Management and Billing Services can provide and install a wide range of meters and related hardware from the nations leading manufactures including:
We then combine these meters with the latest in Automated Meter Reading (AMR) technologies. AMR allows each water meter to be read remotely via wireless data transmissions. This eliminates the need to pay someone to visually read the meter and eliminates human error in those reads. AMR is the most cost effective way to gather all of the readings, it reduces tenant complaints because they never have to be bothered by a meter reader and allows for more in-depth auditing, leak detection and more accurate billing. AMBS has partnered with the best AMR manufacturers in the nation in order to bring you the best solution for your property.
We provide and install the following AMR Systems in the Multi-Family Market:
Echostream by Inovonics
The Echostream system is a great economical system that gives us the ability to read every one of your meters remotely with out ever having to enter your residents home. Inovonics’ commercial-grade technology is the most powerful and affordable wireless sensor network available to the commercial building market. The self-healing, self-configuring EchoStream® Commercial Mesh Network provides the robust backbone of the TapWatch submetering application. Inovonics is the first multifamily technology provider to successfully enable a scalable infrastructure that can support multiple resident amenity applications on a single wireless network.
3G by Master Meter
When it comes to submetering systems, one size rarely fits all. Each property presents unique challenges — Master Meter meets these challenges head on. To ease adaptation our ConnectionFree AMR system completely eliminates external wires resulting in significant labor cost savings during installation, in addition to lowering lifetime cost of maintenance. Wires are proven to be the leading cause of maintenance related issues on competitive designs, so we eliminated them. Our 3G Integrated Registers combine with our proven Multi-Jet or Positive Displacement meters, while our Universal 3G Interpreter™ register can retrofit virtually any water meter you may already have installed — in minutes. For operating in tight quarters, Master Meter’s exclusive Flexible Axis Meter can be installed at any angle; in closets, crawlspaces, under sinks, etc. Sidestep costly plumbing retrofits and workarounds. If there’s a connection to be metered this meter goes there — with no hassles.
Cereniti DataSense Networks (formerly SpeedRead)
Cereniti DataSense Networks is one of the most advanced AMR systems on the market. It can read virtually any meter made today. On top of that Cereniti DataSense Networks is a Licensed Freq. Technology utilizing the 451-470MHz Band. This means the Cereniti DataSense Network system has less interference than competing products and because it is a licensed technology it is able to get longer range (up to 2miles) and better reception from the transmitters. Where other AMR systems fail, Cereniti DataSense Networks shines.
AMBS can also monitor, and in many cases provide repairs for many of the AMR systems no longer on the market today, including but not limited to Master Meter systems, and Motorola Systems. We have a warehouse packed with service parts and other hardware waiting to find a new home on your property.
If you would like to find out which of these fine Products will work best for your community, contact one of our Energy Management Specialists Today.
