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Automatic Meter Reading System

Automatic Meter Reading System

The Automatic Meter Reading System uses innovative technology to read gas meters remotely, in addition to being the first system in the world to utilise gas pipelines to transmit the radio frequency data.

It offers cost-effective installation and operation and is tailor-designed for metropolitan cities such as Hong Kong, where densely congested, high-rise buildings are widespread.

Advantages

For customers:

  • Improves customer service quality
  • Accurate, hassle-free and automatic meter reading without the need for meter readers to access customers' premises
  • Greater customer convenience as meter readings are remotely available for accurate and updated billing calculations

For developers:

  • Provides added value for intelligent buildings and enhances estate security and management.

Overall Advantages:

  • Lower Power Requirement
    - Battery-operated power lasts for 10 years
  • Reliable Meter Reading Accuracy
    - Precise meter readings measured by a reed switch pulse counter
    - Fully automatic system eliminates any human reading errors and billing estimates
  • Economic Price
    - Low cost design

AMR System Architecture

The meter station (meter interface unit) records and manages meter readings. Meter data from different premises are converted into radio frequency signals which are transmitted along the gas pipe to different floors through a self-developed compact antenna. Signals are then picked up, every seven floors, through another antenna and transmitted to a data transit station. These data transit stations are linked to a base station where all data are fed back to our headquarters through the local telephone network for billing purposes.

For further details, please click here for the product fact sheet.

For details of our AMR system, please click here.

2002 HK Awards for Industry

Towngas was honoured to receive the Federation of Hong Kong Industries' Consumer Product Design Award in the 2002 Hong Kong Awards for Industry, in recognition of our invention and development of this Automatic Meter Reading System. The innovative technology is especially suitable for metropolitan cities like Hong Kong. Over the years, it has won high esteem as an effective communications bridge between utilities and their customers.