Heat energy
ement
AMR system
installed
enabling the installer to locate the display
Electro Technical Services (ETS) of Pyle remote to the pipe-work providing a more
in South Wales have recently accessed the accessible visual check if required. The
knowledge and breadth of portfolio from meter is connected to the Sensus((S))cout
Stream Measurement to install and walk-by AMR solution, the Sensus((S))cout
commission a ground breaking metering product is widely being acknowledged as
Metering & Measur
New CPT and TBX meters from MWA Technology
project at Prince Wales dock in Swansea one of the most robust AMR wireless
New and
on behalf of two Housing Associations – products on the market. Sensus((S))cout
Swansea and Gwalia. has been specially developed to provide
Mariners Court was commissioned by mobile and remote reading of meters in
updated
Swansea Housing Association and is a high density residential areas and in lower
development of 54 apartments fed by a density commercial/industrial locations.
central boiler house. Each apartment will The heat meters are directly wired to
meter ranges
have its hot water heating consumption the radio transponder that sends
measured using a compact heat meter. consumption information to external data
The heat meters are connected to a collectors. A handheld unit is then used to
Meter solutions company, MWA wireless device which transmits key data. read meters simultaneously from the same
Technology has added new meters to its This data is collected at the push of a point as part of a mobile ‘walk-by’ system.
CPT Quantometer range, and introduced button on a Psion Walkabout. Once the Sensus((S))cout is an 868MHz
updated models in the TBX turbine gas data has been retrieved, it can be bidirectional flexible radio system
meter range for the UK market. downloaded into a billing software for developed specifically by Sensus for
despatch to the apartment resident. The ‘horizontal’ and ‘vertical’ meter reading – in
CPT Quantometers Range tenants only pay for what they consume, other words for the mobile and remote
The new CPT DN65 low-pressure drop eliminating the need for invasive meter reading of meters (residential water
turbine gas meter includes two versions, a readers or estimated/allocated bills and meters, bulk water meters and heat
2.5 inch (65mm) rated G65 and G100 for controlling the wasteful use of energy. meters) in areas of high building density
gas and natural gas applications. An 8-inch The meters deployed from Stream are (urban streets and high rise buildings).
(DN200mm) is also added to the range, the Sensus Pollucom C, a versatile The deployment of a remote reading
which is now available in five DN sizes compact heat meter that uses a system coupled with heat meters is a very
from 2 inches to 8 inches. mechanical flow sensor and onboard progressive stance taken by the housing
CPT Quantometers are turbine meters calculator that receives the temperature associations in terms of energy
based on the rotation of an impellor, with readings from the flow and return to management and the buildings
the speed of rotation being proportional to generate the energy consumed by the performance.
the flow rate of the gas. The meters are tenant. The version is the split Pollucom C, www.stream-measurement.com
installed between flanges in a ‘sandwich’
configuration.
TBX Range Digital multimeters
With enhanced performance, improved
electronics, a newly designed front face The new Yokogawa TY700 Series is a memory
and touch panel buttons, the latest TBX range of handheld digital multimeters with a
range from MWA is compact, light and are which combine high accuracy, capacity of
suited to measure gas consumption of performance and reliability with a range of 10,000
small boilers and industrial furnaces. new functions for both electronics and data
Pulse output duration and weightings can general industrial applications. points,
be programmed into TBX meters to match Featuring a basic accuracy of 0.020% compared
customer requirements. and a 50,000 count dual display with a 51- with 1000
The TBX range has been jointly segment bargraph, the new instruments for the
developed by energy management offer true RMS measurement and TY710.
leaders, Tokyo Gas and Aichi Tokei Denki. simultaneous measurement and display of Both products are offered with USB
Over 15,000 gas turbine meters alone DC and AC as standard, as well as full communication and an optional
have been sold by Birmingham-based support for data management via a large- communications software package. The
MWA Technology, which also supplies capacity logging-mode memory and USB instruments conform to the EN61010-1
water, steam, oil, electricity, energy/heat communication. safety standard (1000 V CAT III , 600 V
meters and ancillary metering equipment There are two models in the TY700 CAT IV), and have safety shutters for
to over 500 customers throughout the UK. Series: the Standard Type TY710 with 20 preventing the erroneous insertion of the
MWA Technology meters have found kHz bandwidth and the Advanced Type test leads into the current measurement
their way into some impressive national TY720 with 100 kHz bandwidth. Additional terminals.
venues and institutions from London’s features on the TY720 include switchable Operating temperature range is -20° to
Kew Gardens, Royal Albert Hall and RMS/mean detection, a low-pass filter, a +55°C, and storage temperature range is
Broadgate Tower to Birmingham’s Town 50 mV AC range, and low-power -40° to +70°C. The TY700 Series features
Hall, the National Indoor Arena and many resistance measurement. closed case calibration and a 3-year
more. www.mwatechnology.com The TY720 also has a logging-mode warranty. www.yokogawa.com
info@mwatechnology.com
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