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Local, municipal, state and federal organizations provide public services that enhance citizen quality of life, while maintaining compliance with applicable laws and regulations, and by providing for the most effective and sustainable use of natural resources available.

Public services organizations are implementing M2M solutions to help them offer services and works within the most effective and sustainable use of both their natural resources available, and their services infrastructures. Original equipment manufacturers (OEMs) and solutions providers have begun providing wireless networking-enhanced products to public services organizations along with “smart services” to help them achieve their cost and resource conservation goals.

As a services provider, the pubic services organizations themselves have extended the M2M capabilities to their constituents and have begun providing “smart services” as well. Smart services offered by public services organizations ultimately improve and enhance individual quality of life while improving quality of life collectively for the communities they serve.

RFM’s M2M Solutions Enable “Smart Services” & Convenience Enhancements in Public Services / Works

Water, Electricity, and Gas

• Reduced overall costs and improved accuracy of collecting utility usage information for billing purposes through automatic meter reading (AMR) -- the remote collection of consumption data from electric, water and gas meters -- using wireless communications
• Improved conservation via “time-of-use” metering / billing that ties pricing of power and water consumed based on time-of-day and adherence to usage allocations

Homeland security

• Improved security in ports and transit systems via cargo container security systems and services that identify contents and monitor conditions of containers
• Secure public infrastructure (water, power and fuel supply chains) via asset tracking and monitoring using GPS / satellite and radio communications with ability for remote control monitor real-time conditions