NYC to Begin Tracking Water Use in Real Time With Wireless Meters | Fast Company
Smart energy meters can help us conserve energy, sure, but what about water? As anyone suffering through a heat wave knows, water conservation can be just a crucial as power to keeping a city running. Beginning this week, residents of the Bronx will have detailed access to the minutiae of their water use courtesy of a real-time, online water use and bill tracking system. The tool is available thanks to a $252 million citywide upgrade of the water-meter system. The upgrade also includes a switch to wireless water meters that provide more precise readings. So far 834,000 customers have the wireless meters, and the city expects to have its online water use tool available to all of them by September
