Municipalities
Limited resources, aging infrastructure, priority-based budgeting, and sustainability are just some of the top issues facing America’s municipalities today.
You may know there are intelligent tools that can help you achieve your goals. But you may not know where to begin. Or how to afford them.
We can help.
540 Technologies Powers Smart Solutions for Municipalities
540 Technologies has the expert team, leading-edge technology partners and innovative products to bring you complete solutions that can help you do more with less, all while giving you a big return on your investment.
We’ll help you think outside the silo to find creative ways to leverage your existing networks to implement other smart solutions.
And we’ll be there to provide the insight, training and support you need every step along the way.
Data Acquisition and Management
- Monitor streams, rivers and levees for first stage early warning flooding
- Collect and transmit data for anything you need to monitor and measure – including building temperature, humidity, CO2 levels, electricity and natural gas use, etc.
- Save up to 90 percent over conventional data logging systems
Water
- Detect hidden leaks in your network that each year could be costing big bucks – and wasting millions of gallons of treated water
- Manage flows in your network
- Effectively monitor and manage your system’s water pressure
- Investigate water lines to predict pipe failure
Wastewater
- Assess aging infrastructure
- Monitor inflow and infiltration
- Stop unnecessary treatment of rainwater and stormwater
- Continually monitor your system to prevent overflows
Smart Lighting
- Implement smart lighting solutions that will provide network control of your legacy and/or LED streetlights
- Increase economic development, public safety and energy efficiency through real-time lighting control
- Immediately identify outages and day burners
- Reduce maintenance time and associated costs through remote identification of problems and GPS location of luminaire
- Access actual electricity consumption and voltage data from on-board metrology within the photocell
Smart Electric Metering
- Access more data through advanced analytics
- Improve operational efficiencies and restore power faster during outages
- Communicate over a secure, dedicated network
- Enable specific channels on a network using licensed FCC spectrum to handle critical and non-critical communications
- Allow residents to track usage, conserve energy, and save money by shifting high-energy activities to off-peak periods
- Benefit from increased flexibility in rate structures
- Prioritize time-sensitive applications
- Integrate with Advanced Metering Infrastructure (AMI), Automatic Meter Reading (AMR), Distribution Automation (DA), Demand Response (DR) and Conservation Voltage Reduction (CVR) technologies