Meter reading sheets are normally generated by your utility billing software, and the meter serial number is the key piece of information for the meter reader. It is what the reader confirms before taking a reading. The customer address is secondary, because some meters are in those odd locations you mentioned. The sheets often include last month's reading and maybe average usage for the customer so the reader can do a common sense check on the new reading.
Ryan,I work for a utility with around 81,000 water meters we use map books for our commercial routes only because the location of the residential meters is pretty standard, and the routes are sequenced so that the meter reader walks from one meter to another. One advantage of having the map books is that we don't have to assign the same routes to the same meter reader each month. We also tend to have alot of turnover with our meter readers and the maps help to bring the new meter readers up to speed. If you would like to see some examples of our maps I'd be happy to send a couple to you.Josh
This method seems to be very dependent on local familiarity and somewhat inefficient. Does anybody know if this is the general method for water utilities to read meters manually? My task right now is to create a map book to assist water meter reading and my concern is creating something that will actually be useful and not just garbled pages of dots and numbers.
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