a ”radio install date” field should be added to the W/S Meter tab. Water meter useful lives are not necessarily on the same timeline as the radio –read devices they communicate to. Different battery lives are associated with the specific MXU’s issue date and also the replacement of failed MXU’s or a switch to a migrateable MXU (Sensus walk-by/drive- by MXU’s were not fixed base compatible in prior years) result in the MXU install dates being different from the meter install date. The radio date will enable replacement planning/budgeting. Sometimes only batteries are changed.