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Implementation Of AMI Following the decision to roll out an advanced metering infrastructure, utilities will benefit from taking purposeful strides toward implementation. The three phases of implementing AMI include: • Pre-project planning and product selection: Put a regulatory strategy in place, develop business cases, create a preliminary work plan, and schedule and begin technology selection. • Pre-deployment preparation: Refine the business case and regulatory process, begin meter testing and pilots, finalize technology selections, and begin business process design. • Full deployment: Test and introduce a fully-integrated systems solution that can enable more corporate benefit than a simple meter-reading solution. Conclusion As the need to preserve water becomes more closely tied to the widespread use of data analytics and utilities, by extension, their end users will become more aware of the solutions available to create pervasive use of AMI. Once this infrastructure gains ground among large and small utility companies alike, they will be empowered to better manage their water usage and costs by providing more timely and detailed water usage information to customers. Smart metering takes us one step closer to a more strategic way of doing business and bridging the gap between technology and valuable and vulnerable resources. n wateronline.com n Water Innovations AMR/AMI/METERING Michael Sullivan is the Global Solutions Sales Leader for IBM Smarter Water Management Solutions, a cross-brand business focused on incubating and growing a portfolio of solutions to help better manage water delivery and treatment systems, water efficiency, and natural water resources. As a member of IBM's Smarter Cities Leadership team, he leads a worldwide team of researchers, technical experts, and business development executives who leverage IBM's information man- agement, advanced analytics, technology services capabilities, and global network of ecosystem partners to deliver water management solutions for government, utility, and enterprise customers across the world. Mr. Sullivan has over 20 years of experience in executive positions leading innovation, brand development, and launching emerging businesses. He earned an MBA with a dual concentration in Marketing and Finance from Vanderbilt's Owen Graduate School of Management and holds a BA in Psychology from Dartmouth College. About The Authors 36 Carey Hidaka is a leader in Smarter Water Management business development and has managed IBM Smarter Water Management projects in the USA, working with clients to uncover smarter applications in the water/wastewater industry. Mr. Hidaka has 33 years of information technology experience and also practiced for nine years as a consulting engineer and PE, focusing on water resource planning and water and wastewater treatment plant designs and implementations for public and industrial sector clients. He has an MBA from the University of Chicago, an MS in Environmental Engineering from the University of Illinois at Urbana- Champaign, and a BS in Civil Engineering from the University of Colorado at Boulder. He has published work in the journal American Water Works Association , IBM Journal of Research and Development , International Water Association , and World Water .