Residential Water Consumption Monitoring Using 153 RWM
Enabling Accurate Billing & Transparent Water Management in Cantonment Residency Areas
Product Installed
SBEM’s 153 RWM (Ultrasonic Residential Water Meter)
Application Location
Cantonment Residency Area
Industry
Residential / Domestic Water Supply
Background
In a large residential cantonment area, managing water distribution and ensuring accurate billing is a major operational responsibility. Every household within the cantonment receives treated water through an internal water supply network, and the administration must monitor consumption to:
- Ensure fair billing
- Maintain transparent usage records
- Track water demand trends
- Identify abnormal or excess usage
Traditional manual meter reading often leads to errors, delays, and incomplete data. To improve efficiency and transparency, the cantonment authorities needed a modern, automated solution.
Requirement
The customer required a system that could:
- Measure individual household water consumption accurately
- Send real-time water usage data automatically
- Maintain centralized billing records with time-stamped readings
- Eliminate manual reading errors and data loss
- Provide reliable performance in residential environments
- Run as a pilot project to evaluate future large-scale rollouts
To achieve this, the requirement was for a smart residential water meter capable of integrating with a central AMI platform.9
Product Installed
SBEM provided the 153 RWM (Residential Water Meter) integrated with a complete AMI (Advanced Metering Infrastructure) solution.
Solution Highlights:
- Each household was equipped with 153 RWM, a robust smart water meter designed for domestic use
- Meters were connected to AMI communication modules
- All data was pushed to the CIMCON Water Server, enabling:
- Live water consumption monitoring
- Automated billing
- Centralized data storage
- Historical analysis
This solution ensured seamless data flow from every meter to the central platform without requiring physical meter reading.
Technology Used
153 RWM with AMI – Key Technologies
- Ultrasonic / Electromagnetic metering technology (based on model variant)
- AMI communication module for automatic data transfer
- Real-time monitoring with cloud connectivity
- Tamper-proof and accurate meter design suitable for residential installations
- Integration with CIMCON Water Server for seamless backend processing
Customer Benefits
- 100% accurate consumption data, eliminating manual reading errors
- Real-time usage monitoring for billing and record management
- Centralized data dashboard on the CIMCON server
- Pilot project at Cantonment showed trustworthy & successful results
- Quick detection of abnormal usage patterns
- Transparent billing builds trust among residents
- Reduced manpower requirements for reading and compiling consumption data
Outcome
The SBEM 153 RWM with AMI solution enabled the Army Cantonment to automate its entire
residential water measurement and billing process. The system delivered:
- Accurate, time-stamped water usage records
- Automated billing capability
- Improved transparency and accountability
- Reliable pilot results for future scalability
Once again, SBEM demonstrated Your Measurement Partner values through solutions that are Reliable Beyond Measure, and true Indianeering Excellence.