Badger Meter (BMI) Teams Up With AT&T Smart City Alliance

 | Jun 13, 2018 05:51AM ET

Badger Meter, Inc. (NYSE:BMI) recently joined AT&T Smart City Alliance — a framework created by AT&T Inc. (NYSE:T) — which helps cities provide smart water metering solutions to people.

Notably, AT&T’s smart cities framework is backed by an association of key technology leaders and industry organizations, comprising Cisco Systems, Inc. (NASDAQ:CSCO) , Deloitte, Ericsson (BS:ERICAs), General Electric Co. (NYSE:GE) , IBM (NYSE:IBM), Intel (NASDAQ:INTC) and Qualcomm (NASDAQ:QCOM) Technologies, Inc. They are working together to help cities address critical issues like high energy costs, transportation, aging infrastructure and public safety by using the Internet of Things (IoT).

Thus, the integration of AT&T’s widespread network and Badger Meter’s cellular AMI solutions will help utilities boost water sustainability. The collaboration is in sync with Badger Meter’s plan to offer smart city water metering solutions by utilizing cellular networks.

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