Collaboration demonstrates water metering is key to smart city
MILWAUKEE--(BUSINESS WIRE)--Jun. 12, 2018--
Badger
Meter, Inc. (NYSE: BMI) today announced it has joined the AT&T Smart
City Alliance. This collaboration will explore various alternatives to
provide cities, large and small and with diverse needs and priorities,
with access to world-class and smart city water metering solutions. AT&T
and Badger Meter are working together on how AT&T’s extensive, reliable
network and Badger Meter’s industry-leading cellular AMI solutions can
join together to help water utilities benefit from the collective
leadership and experience in the smart water metering solutions of today
and tomorrow.
Badger Meter’s ORION® Cellular endpoints provide increased
deployment flexibility, because no infrastructure is needed. This
results in substantially reduced operating costs. Beyond the water
utility itself, cellular solutions also create flexibility for a city.
By implementing cellular networks, cities are not forced into a “one
size fits all” solution. Cellular networks allow easy and long-term
interoperability between multiple solutions, such as energy efficient
lighting, “smart” waste management and improved leak detection in water
systems.
In January 2016, AT&T introduced its smart cities framework aimed at
helping cities better meet the needs of their citizens using the
Internet of Things (IoT). The framework is supported by an alliance of
key technology leaders and industry organizations, together
collaborating, developing, and ultimately deploying solutions that could
help cities address critical issues like high energy costs,
transportation, aging infrastructure and public safety.
“Joining the AT&T Smart City Alliance is key to Badger Meter’s plans to
provide smart city water metering solutions for any utility – large or
small,” says Kenneth Bockhorst, president of Badger Meter. “Our smart
water solutions are a revenue generator for municipalities, making them
a strategic component of any smart city initiative. Our Alliance with
AT&T shows that Badger Meter is ready to deliver on the promise of smart
water.”
“Badger Meter is an exciting addition to our Smart Cities Alliance and
will allow us to collaborate and trial Badger Meter’s solutions to
ultimately provide to cities at scale,” said Michael Zeto, vice
president of AT&T IoT, and General Manager of Smart Cities. “Smart water
technology is a vital part of creating a comprehensive and truly
end-to-end smart cities ecosystem that enables communities to be more
efficient, sustainable and safer for the people that live there.”
For more information about Badger Meter and its line of smart metering
technologies, visit www.badgermeter.com/utility/solutions/smart-water-metering/
About Badger Meter
Badger Meter is an innovator in flow measurement, control and
communications solutions, serving water utilities, municipalities, and
commercial and industrial customers worldwide. The company’s products
measure water, oil, chemicals, and other fluids, and are known for
accuracy, long-lasting durability and for providing valuable and timely
measurement data. For more information, visit www.badgermeter.com.
Certain statements contained in this news release, as well as other
information provided from time to time by Badger Meter, Inc. (the
“Company”) or its employees, may contain forward looking statements that
involve risks and uncertainties that could cause actual results to
differ materially from those in the forward looking statements.The
words “anticipate,” “believe,” “estimate,” “expect,” “think,” “should,”
“could” and “objective” or similar expressions are intended to identify
forward looking statements.All such forward looking statements
are based on the Company’s then current views and assumptions and
involve risks and uncertainties.Some risks and uncertainties
that could cause actual results to differ materially from those
expressed or implied in forward looking statements include those
described in Item 1A of the Company’s Annual Report on Form 10-K for the
year ended December 31, 2017 that include, among other things:
- the continued shift in the Company’s business from lower cost,
manually read meters toward more expensive, value-added automatic
meter reading (AMR) systems, advanced metering infrastructure (AMI)
systems and advanced metering analytics (AMA) systems that offer more
comprehensive solutions to customers’ metering needs;
- the success or failure of newer Company products;
- changes in competitive pricing and bids in both the domestic and
foreign marketplaces, and particularly in continued intense price
competition on government bid contracts for lower cost, manually read
meters;
- the actions (or lack thereof) of the Company’s competitors;
- changes in the Company’s relationships with its alliance partners,
primarily its alliance partners that provide radio solutions, and
particularly those that sell products that do or may compete with the
Company’s products;
- changes in the general health of the United States and foreign
economies, including to some extent such things as the length and
severity of global economic downturns, international or civil
conflicts that affect international trade, the ability of municipal
water utility customers to authorize and finance purchases of the
Company’s products, the Company’s ability to obtain financing, housing
starts in the United States, and overall industrial activity;
- unusual weather, weather patterns or other natural phenomena,
including related economic and other ancillary effects of any such
events;
- economic policy changes, including but not limited to, trade policy
and corporate taxation;
- the timing and impact of government funding programs that stimulate
national and global economies, as well as the impact of government
budget cuts or partial shutdowns of governmental operations;
- changes in the cost and/or availability of needed raw materials and
parts, such as volatility in the cost of brass castings as a result of
fluctuations in commodity prices, particularly for copper and scrap
metal at the supplier level, foreign-sourced electronic components as
a result of currency exchange fluctuations and/or lead times, and
plastic resin as a result of changes in petroleum and natural gas
prices;
- the Company’s ability to successfully integrate acquired businesses
or products;
- changes in foreign economic conditions, particularly currency
fluctuations in the United States dollar, the Euro and the Mexican
peso;
- the inability to develop technologically advanced products;
- the failure of the Company’s products to operate as intended;
- the inability to protect the Company’s proprietary rights to its
products;
- the Company’s expanded role as a prime contractor for providing
complete technology systems to governmental entities, which brings
with it added risks, including but not limited to, the Company’s
responsibility for subcontractor performance, additional costs and
expenses if the Company and its subcontractors fail to meet the
timetable agreed to with the governmental entity, and the Company’s
expanded warranty and performance obligations;
- disruptions and other damages to information technology and other
networks and operations due to breaches in data security or any other
cybersecurity attack;
- transportation delays or interruptions;
- violations or alleged violations of the U.S. Foreign Corrupt
Practices Act (FCPA) or other anti-corruption laws and the Foreign
Account Tax Compliance provisions of the Hiring Incentives to Restore
Employment Act (referred to as FATCA);
- the loss of or disruption in certain single-source suppliers; and
- changes in laws and regulations, particularly laws dealing with the
content or handling of materials used in the Company's products.
All of these factors are beyond the Company's control to varying
degrees.Shareholders, potential investors and other readers are
urged to consider these factors carefully in evaluating the forward
looking statements contained in this news release and are cautioned not
to place undue reliance on such forward looking statements.The
forward looking statements made in this document are made only as of the
date of this document and the Company assumes no obligation, and
disclaims any obligation, to update any such forward looking statements
to reflect subsequent events or circumstances.
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