Tom Kelly, head of the industry’s committee on meter standards, told the Tribune that water is a key danger to electronic meters: “Once you get water inside the electronics of these meters, all bets are off. According to Sensus, water had gotten into the meters’ electronics in ways the manufacturer hadn’t before realized. Aurora officials were concerned enough about the strange behavior that they asked the manufacturer, Sensus, to determine the problem. Another meter inexplicably bounced back-and-forth between display numbers. So far only nine meters have been discovered to malfunction: three spinning forward, three spinning backward and two whose patterns couldn’t be determined.
“They Misrecord.” The Tribune has continued to investigate this issue and has found problems with smart water meters in another Chicago suburb, this time in Aurora. In June it was reported based upon a Chicago Tribune investigation that a Chicago Suburb Claims Smart Water Meters Don’t Overcharge.
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