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Jake Wadman

Jake Wadman

Jacob (Jake) Waidmann, Solution Engineer/Manager at Kamstrup (North America), smart water metering and AMI expert and guest on Talking Under Water.

Sep 14, 2026

5:48
Mm-hmm.
5:48
And so, uh, when you're diving into all these AMI systems, all these bells and whistles and different things, and maybe you think you need this or that and you're not really sure, it's, it's overwhelming and it's also really easy to c- to think, "Oh, I need to compare things on a, on a stats basis kind of thing, or a specs basis.
6:03
So which meter's more accurate? Which one gives more data? Hey, I'm going from, if maybe on a, a drive-by or a manual read, I'm going from one read a month now to hourly reads, but maybe I could do 15-minute reads.
6:14
That would be even better, right?" Uh, and that's not always the case.
6:17
So when you're focused on problems, though, you can work backwards into the data you need.
6:21
And there's always trade-offs for more data versus less data, uh, from an engineering standpoint, right? If a, a meter outputs more data, it probably also shortens that battery life.
6:31
Uh, and there's trade-offs there usually on a, on an engineering side of things.

18 MINS LATER

24:28
Mm-hmm

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