Under the dynamic leadership of Mayor Steve Benjamin, the City of Columbia SC is a fantastic city of the new south. They asked themselves, “How do we through every action we take, become the most talented, educated and entrepreneurial city in America?” When it came to deploying AMI for their water system, the City of Columbia chose Badger Meter’s ORION Cellular technology. This easy to deploy infrastructure-free smart water network provides Network as a Service and utilizes a multi-carrier cellular network strategy to provide decision making data for the city as well as its customers.