In certain industrial water meter applications, a 4-20 milliamp flow rate output, pulse-per-volume output, or both, is required to provide signaling to a connected batching or telemetry system. When using a member of the electro-mechanical flow meter family from Neptune Technology Group (Tallassee, AL, USA), a traditional solution was to outfit the meter with Neptune’s Read More →

Venturi-Type Flow Meters are utilized within the municipal water industry to measure flows both within the water treatment plant, as well as within distribution. The Venturi flow measurement is based upon measuring the pressure drop between two sections of the tube with differing diameters. Often times, Venturi meters are outfitted with only a 4-20 milliamp Read More →

Flow-Tronic (Welkenraedt, Belgium) develops and manufactures flow measurement instrumentation for the water & wastewater industries. The Flow-Tronic Torpee-Mag (pictured left) is a full-profile, insertion-type magnetic flow meter. Insertion-type magmeters may be installed via hot-tap, which precludes the need to shut down, empty, or cut the pipe. Such technology can provide most economical installations for flow Read More →

Neptune Technology Group (Tallassee, AL) manufactures a broad line of flow meters and AMI/AMR systems, serving the municipal water utility industry. Here at SCADAmetrics (Wildwood, MO), we manufacture flow metering instrumentation in support of this industry, with the stated mission of helping users extend such meters for enhanced SCADA interoperability and functionality. Like many manufacturers Read More →

In certain industrial water meter applications, a pulse-per-volume output is required to provide signaling to a connected batching or telemetry system. When using a member of the electro-mechanical flow meter family from Neptune Technology Group (Tallassee, AL, USA), the traditional solution was to outfit the meter with Neptune’s Tricon/S register. The Tricon/S provided a visual Read More →

Also, if the water meter, instrumentation, and/or cabling is installed in the vicinity of electrically noisy equipment, such as motors, welders, or variable-frequency drives, the use of shielded cables is especially recommended! Also, if there is an extended distance between the water meter and the SCADA/Telemetry/BMS instrumentation (10+ feet), shielded cable is recommended for these Read More →

Along that theme, we are pleased to unveil the latest results of our recent work toward improving our flagship instrument, the Model EM-100 EtherMeter! SCADAmetrics continuously develops new products to solve today’s metering challenges. Additionally, we also dedicate a significant effort toward improving our existing products in order to make them more user-friendly, reliable, and Read More →

In the past, Automatic Meter Reading (AMR) Systems for municipal water were generally limited to collecting flow totalization from water meters that were natively outfitted with a Sensus/Neptune protocol signal. Today, the SCADAmetrics Encodalizerâ„¢ is able to provide a Sensus/Neptune protocol option to many flow meters that otherwise would be precluded from your AMR/AMI system. Read More →