Portable hydrant meter and system of use thereof

A portable meter apparatus for a fire hydrant having a discharge nozzle, the apparatus comprising:

• a housing releaseably mountable on a discharge nozzle of a fire hydrant, the housing having an inlet end, an outlet end, and defining a conduit extending there between the inlet and outlet ends;
• a means for determining the flow rate therethrough the conduit;
• a means for determining the geographic coordinate location information of the housing;
• a processor coupled to the means for determining the flow rate and the means for determining the geographic coordinate location information;
• and
• a means for transmitting, coupled to the processor, the flow rate signal and the geographic coordinate location of the housing remotely from the housing.

A meter system for a fire hydrant having a discharge nozzle, the system comprising:

• a) a server system
• b) a portable meter apparatus, comprising:
• i) a housing mountable on a discharge nozzle of a fire hydrant,
• ii) a flow configured to output a flow rate signal representative of a flow rate therethrough the housing of the portable meter apparatus;
• iii) a processor adapted to receive and store the flow signal output by the flow sensor;
• iv) a satellite positioning system, wherein the processor is adapted to receive satellite position determining signals, process the satellite position determining signals to adapt the satellite position determining signals for transmission, and;
• v) a communication device operatively coupled to the processor that is adapted to transmit the flow signal and processed positioning signal to the server system via a communication medium