Supervisory Control And Data Acquisition

Monitoring toxic and flammable gases in industrial settings with Crowcon’s Gasmaster control panel means accurate and quick protection. The wall-mounted device displays all gas levels simultaneously on a large, multilingual LED display, allowing full system status checks at a glance.

The Gasmaster control panel monitors up to 4 channels and interfaces with any combination of flammable and toxic gas detectors, as well as oxygen and fire detectors. Each channel handles 2 levels of alarm. Wall-mounted device displays all levels on multilingual LED, while analog outputs and RS-485 digital communications enable connection to PLC/DCS/SCADA systems, PC, chart recorder, or data logger. Featuring 85 dB multi-tone alarm, unit includes battery backup in case of power failure.

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We are pleased to announce that Control Microsystems, Inc. has become a sponsor of Water and Wastewater.com.

Founded in 1980, Control Microsystems Inc. is a global leader for the municipal water and wastewater industry by developing, manufacturing and suppling hardware and software for automation, remote monitoring, control and SCADA systems. Their product line includes programmable logic controllers (PLCs), remote terminal units (RTUs), Modbus transmitters, telemetry, networking and communication hardware.

Control Microsystems prides itself on a deep understanding of the applications such as stormwater, eviromental monitoring and wastewater treatment, to which its product line is applied. From hardware design to user interface and deployment, all of CMI’s products have been developed with the end user in mind.

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ekyll Electronic Technology announces the launch of PrimeRead, a multi-vendor, multi-networking application for automatic meter data collection. This new software provides utilities and commercial and industrial companies with an affordable and well-supported application to cost-effectively and efficiently collect data from utility meters. PrimeRead serves as a datawarehouse for incoming data from other information systems and public utilities, while its open architecture allows data exchange with other corporate information systems including billing, operations, customer information systems (CIS) and SCADA.

Simple to install and set-up, PrimeRead is significantly cheaper than other automatic meter reading software (AMRS) and has no back compatibility issues, working equally well with new or existing legacy systems.

PrimeRead is packed full of features that give users the capability to automatically collect data from all major manufacturers’ electricity, water or gas meters.

Six versions are available, depending on when, where and how data is to be used.

From the top-of- the-range Enterprise that is designed and developed for daily data collection requirements from a large number of meters to the PrimeRead Express for single meter point collection, there is a product to suit all requirements.

Also included in the range is the PrimeRead Pocket for data collection with a PDA and PrimeRead Mobile for on-site data collection using optical probe or serial port connection.

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GE Fanuc Automation , a unit of GE Industrial, has unveiled the availability of Proficy HMI/SCADA - iFIX 4.0 in German, French, Polish and Russian languages. iFIX is a premier industry solution for the comprehensive monitoring, control and distribution of plant-wide data.

A key component of the Proficy automation software platform, iFIX 4.0 delivers enhanced functionality including improved third-party PLC integration, and both Developer and Operator productivity enhancements.

GE Fanuc has been investing in product localisation for many years. iFIX is available in Chinese and Japanese, in addition to the German, French, Polish, and Russian languages. With each new release, GE Fanuc reinvests in localisation, insuring its leading position as a global provider.

iFIX 4.0’s extendable architecture is capable of discovering PLC information, delivering new levels of developer productivity, efficiency and error proofing. This is made possible through an innovative device discovery and automated configuration capability, supporting the Siemens S7 PLCs, Rockwell (Allen-Bradley) PLCs and other OPC sources.

iFIX 4.0 delivers on Operator Productivity, by offering canned functionality to drill into tag details to instantly trend variables, view enterprise data through hosted portal displays and deliver thin client connectivity to SCADA nodes through Microsoft Terminal Services. Graphic tools deliver a variety of drawing productivity tools and advanced capabilities for 3D Piping and connected object management.

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InduSoft announces support for Microsoft’s latest Windows operating system, Vista. HMI/SCADA users, OEMs, and systems integrators can now take advantage of the latest Microsoft security improvements and graphical capabilities. Compatibility with Vista and other Microsoft operating systems means that InduSoft Web Studio is still the only HMI/SCADA solution that runs on virtually every type of hardware in the automation and control industry.

Cell phones, PDAs, embedded computers and panel computers, industrial devices, and desktop workstations with dual-core processors and high-power graphic cards that take full advantage of new features in Vista, all enjoy continued support in ways that only InduSoft delivers.

‘End users and developers can simply add Vista capability to existing systems,’ explains Marcia Gadbois, VP of Business Development at InduSoft.

‘New PC-based hardware is needed to support Vista, but existing InduSoft solutions can be transferred to the new hardware without any changes’.

New users can also design a solution on Vista from the outset.

‘Because InduSoft Web Studio uses the same PC-based development system, users can configure anything from real-time, embedded controls to remote data acquisition systems and control room HMI/SCADA systems, as well as historians and database systems - all using the same development software,’ explains Gadbois.

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