The city of Jamestown will receive $200,000 for advanced remote water meter monitoring through Empire State Development.

The Jamestown project will upgrade several thousand water meters with advanced water meter sensors to improve system reliability, share water information with residents, proactively identify water leaks, enable troubleshooting in real time with residents, and reduce travel/road time for customer field reps fixing water utility issues. The project is forecasted to substantially support low- and moderate-income residents.

“I am beyond excited that the Jamestown Board of Public Utilities has been awarded a Smart Cities grant,” said Mayor Eddie Sundquist. “It has been a chief goal of mine to make Jamestown a technology hub. By winning this extremely competitive grant, Jamestown is now a designated municipal testbed, which will make us an attractive destination for continued investment in smart cities technologies. I appreciate all the effort the BPU team made in researching, applying for, and collaborating with the City for this grant. The fast-tracking of this project due to these funds further shows the commitment of the BPU to be on the cutting edge of service.”

Seven New York cities received funding through a partnership first announced during Gov. Andrew Cuomo’s July 2019 solidarity and trade mission to Israel. The partnership will foster solutions to municipal problems.

“New York’s cities have long been sources of collaboration, ingenuity and opportunity, and the Smart Cities Innovation Partnership activates the private sector to provide inventive solutions to civic challenges that affect so many New Yorkers’ day-to-day lives, particularly as we continue to fight a global pandemic that has had enormous impact on municipal operations and services,” said Eric Gertler, Empire State Development acting commissioner and president and CEO-designate. “I look forward to seeing the new partnerships that will be created by this program, the technological solutions they will produce and their positive impact on residents throughout the state.”