au2mation remote monitoring solutions succesfully complete trial at Virginian Water Authority

26 August 2010 au2mation's remote monitoring solutions have been sucessfully trialed by a Virginian Water Authority. The Authority now has an extremely cost effective option for monitoring remote sites where there is no mains power or communications available.

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au2mation's remote monitoring solutions successfully complete trial at Virginian Water Authority


Harris County, Texas, 26 August 2010


au2mation's MM3P, supplied by UK RTU specialist MetaSphere, is being trialed on a number of sites to provide a Virginia-based Water Authority with remote access to key operational information.

MM3P RTU successfully completes US trial

At a sewer lift station (to represent a sewer location), the Intrinsically Safe (IS) version of the MM3P is installed together with the IMP ultrasonic sensor from leading level and flow specialist Pulsar Process Measurement of Niceville, FL.

At another trial site, an MM3P monitored supply pressure on a critical point in the water distribution network. Traditionally the Authority would need to deploy a datalogger at the site and return again several days later to collect the data.

Monitoring sewers from the internet

With the MM3P the data is available daily on the internet via a secure facility, making access to the data more immediate as well as reducing the costs for collecting that data.

Each site logged over 2,000 hours of continuous operation during the trial and during that time 100% of the expected data was collected with no data quality issues and there were no equipment or software failures.

A number of benefits were identified with these solutions when compared with a traditional telemetry approach:

  • Since there are no mains power or communications to install each site was installed, commissioned and fully operational in a matter of hours.
  • The solutions have a low operating expenditure and maintenance requirement. Once deployed the units operate for years on their battery and require no recalibration or servicing in this time.
  • The MM3P RTU has a number of analogue and digital inputs giving it the flexibility to be used in a variety of applications.
  • The Intrinsically Safe MM3P RTU is approved for use in hazardous applications such as sewers or other areas where gas or dust may be present and is extremely compact in size compared with explosion proof equipment.

Viewing pressure data on the internet

The MM3P RTU range is available in the USA and Canada exclusively from au2mation.

au2mation delivers business value to utility customers through the application of automation in a three step process – supervize, analyze and optimize. To deliver this process au2mation provides consultancy, design, implementation, supply and support services using its own resources and in partnership with key alliances. au2mation focuses on the utility sector and in particular the water industry offering a range of business solutions to help manage assets more effectively and safely, reduce energy, raw material and people costs, improve customer service and educe environmental impact.


Further information at: www.au2mation.com
Reference Number: A210.0007