While monitoring water consumption smart wireless meters can also evaluate such levels in each apartment and use that information as a proxy for detecting occupancy.
Where is the water meter in apartments.
If a unit goes 36 hours without water use for example the meter can assume no one is home.
Then it can automatically adjust the unit s thermostat to a level that saves.
Apart from just this private meters can also be owned by people in order to separately track the water usage of each un it.
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Water meters record your home s water usage for a given period in gallons or cubic feet depending on the utility agency s preference.
Which is known as sub metering.
But in almost all apartments there are no separate water meters.
It is proven that people use less water when metered and they have to account and pay for what they use.
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Electric bill is being paid by the occupants according to the level of consumption with a min clause.
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This meter contains a round gauge with numbers that resemble an odometer on a car or it may be digital which allows the water agency to remotely read the meter.
In an apartment the water meter is maintained by an owner and he is billed by a utility on one meter who in turn shares the cost of the bill among the tenants.