Mueller Systems' AMR system enables utilities to improve customer service while simultaneously increasing operational efficiencies. Mueller Hot Rod transmitters enhance utilities' ability to capture drive-by meter readings, and the open architecture of the AMR system component allows the solution to work with other brands of encoded meters which utilities may already have installed.

The Hot Rod AMR system also includes a comprehensive data logging feature that allows for six months' worth of hourly usage data stored at the meter, with graphically displayed alarms to enable utilities to quickly respond to customer questions and proactively approach customers about possible leaks or tampering. The Hot Rod AMR system also provides a seamless migration path from AMR to the Mi.Net Mueller Infrastructure Network for Utilities Advanced Metering Infrastructure (AMI) system as needs and service areas grow. The Mi.Net System is a communications network that fully automates the meter-reading-to-billing process, linking meters, distribution sites and control devices in a single, highly efficient data network.

Jim Hendricks, area manager for Mueller Systems said: “Our Hot Rod AMR system provides a high-performance solution to meet the challenge of communicating across rugged mountain terrain. Asheville needed an AMR system that was fast, and our two-second transmission - the fastest in the industry - exceeded this requirement.”