The City of Bridge City needed to:

• Address water meter infrastructure needs and improve the accuracy of water meter billings

• Reduce operating costs associated with water meter readings and billings

• Be good stewards of the taxpayers’ resources

• Provide excellent services to its citizens

City officials knew that these objectives were critical, but that they needed to be achieved without having a negative impact on the City’s budget or operations. The City was looking to partner with a company they could trust, one that could manage the entire process and had a proven track record with similar projects. Siemens performed an in-depth study of the City’s water meter infrastructure during the summer of 2012. This study found that the City would benefit from upgrading its existing water meter system to a fixed-base automatic meter reading (AMR) system, including replacing the City’s more than 4100 water meters with new, radio-capable meters.