Integrated Telemetry Solutions

Who are Metasphere?

• Based in Tadworth, Surrey.

• A company with more than 25 years’ experience as a provider of Telemetry Services for the Utility sector.

• All Hardware made in the UK.

• Firmly committed to ongoing development of our solutions

• Framework agreements in place with UK, Australian and European Clients.

• Full end to end solutions including installation and service packages, and also lease options for hardware.

What do we do?

Metasphere provides robust asset monitoring of time critical remote operations for operators to gain competitive advantage and meet regulatory compliance.

Applications

• Telemetry Systems

• Smart Cities

• Water

• Wastewater

• Energy

• Oil and Gas

• M2M and IOT applications

• Remote plants and assets monitoring

• Critical infrastructure monitoring

Water Data and Event Management

The overall responsibility of water utilities is to deliver good quality product (‘water’), at

appropriate pressure, in 365/24/7 manner, with minimal environmental impact and at

the lowest possible cost . Achieving this target is highly dependent on being able to

manage the three entities: assets, events and customers.

Our Water Data and Event Management solutions are capable to provide

advanced monitoring, data and event processing functionality and to optimize the

management of water and waste water networks. We have various applications

(DMA, CSO, quality, etc.) which provide an integrated environment for data generation;

data communication, data acquisitions and analysis (zonal configuration, flow

calculation and water consumption analysis, pressure management, waste water level,

velocity and flow measurement, asset management, energy management, water

quality monitoring, temporal and spatial analytics), alerts management (including

smart alarms, utilizing predictive algorithms), integration with third-party systems

(Schneider, Copa Data, Bentley, RW Systems, KeyPro, Deloitte, etc), assisting the

operational management and decision-making of the Water Utilities . There are

options for Cloud Intelligent Services utilising Software-as-a-Service (SaaS) business

model or "On premises" installation. Our applications have the capabilities to provide

web-based public access to water networks status via any standard web browser and

mobile applications.

Smart Water Networks Applications

A Layered View of Smart Water Networks Applications

RTU/Outstations

• Point Range

– Green

– Orange

– Blue (ATEX & IECex)

• MM-IM

– 4000 Point RTU/Site Controller

– Pumping Station Manager

• Compact RTU

• MM3P

– Standard

– ATEX

Point Orange Overview

• Real time remote monitoring of up to 5 sensors

• Software Configurable I/O; supports AI, CI and DI

• Powers external current loop and active voltage sensors

• Built-in quad band GSM/GPRS or 3G modem with auto switching internal and external antenna

• Lithium battery with an expected life of 5+ years

• IP68 enclosure is submersible to 4m for 4 days

• Connects to Medina, DNP3 Masters (e.g. ClearSCADA) or FTP server

• Modbus master communicating over RS232 and RS485

• Remote firmware upgrade

• Remote configuration

• Integral immersion sensor

• Rich telemetry functionality including dynamic trending/logging and intelligent alarm reporting.

• Flexible integrated installation bracket

• Automatic external power source detection

• ATEX compliant variant available – Point Blue.

Typical applications:– Distribution network pressure and flow

monitoring

– Automatic Meter Reading

– River level monitoring

– Rain gauge monitoring

– Reservoir monitoring

– Open channel flow measurement

Collect data remotely

Flow Monitoring (Krohne)

• Metasphere Point (Green, Orange, or Blue) connecting to the Waterflux over RS485 Half Duplex.

• Metasphere and Krohne have global partnership for this solution.

• Connecting to Metasphere’s Palette Cloud service, client SCADA or FTP server.

Installations now being completed with

Krohne Waterflux 3070 in Denmark,

Vietnam, Fiji & Papua New Guinea with

projects due to Start in South Africa &

Dubai shortly.

Pressure Monitoring – (Impress)

Pressure management in Potable Water &

Gas Networks.

Using Metasphere Point Orange or Blue (Gas)

using 4-20mA output transducers. Used for

network management and Pressure Reduction

Valve Monitoring

Ultrasonic – Level & Flow (Pulsar)

Metasphere’s standard waste Water level

monitoring solution is the Point Orange/Blue

with Pulsar’s dBi. We have supplied over

1000 of these combined solutions over the

past year.

The Point unit is loop powering over 4-20mA

the Pulsar equipment and then

communicating back to a Telemetry or

SCADA system.

Flow Monitoring – (Mainstream)

• Bespoke development by Metasphere to integrate the Mainstream velocity probe with the Point Orange (Funded by Sydney Water)

• In pipe flow monitoring

• Mainstream uses the area-velocity method to give a continuous or time sample measurement of fluid flow. Mainstream uses a streamlined probe that operates immersed in the flowing liquid

Flow Monitoring – (Flexim)

• Clamp-on flow meters for closed pipe flow monitoring.

• Zero Pipe interference (No Drill)

• Connects to Point Colour via Modbus 485.

Connecting to Metasphere’s Palette Cloud service.

Turbidity Monitoring

Hydrogen Sulphide Monitoring - Dosing

• White Paper given by Sydney Water to Oz-Water (May 16) about huge savings in chemical costs due to more accurate network monitoring that was integrated into the Central Telemetry system.

• This solution was permanently powering and monitoring the sensor, whilst capable of operating this way it has a notable impact upon the battery life.

DNP3 Protocol

The DNP3 protocol has a number of features and advantages. However, the following features are particularly useful for water and wastewater applications:

• Open protocol

• Time synchronization

• Time-stamped data

• Unsolicited messages

• Report by exception

• Secure authentication

• Diagnostic information for each I/O point

• Communication to multiple masters

Master Control

Fully functional telemetry/SCADA

High reliability

Extreme scalability

Flexible communications options

Master Control supports a very wide range of communications media including fixed link, scanning radio, PSTN, GSM, GPRS, IP WANs, and satellite.

Historian and web access

Interfacing to business systems

Master Control has been enhanced over the years to provide a range of standard solutions to allow interfacing of telemetry/SCADA data with other business systems such as GIS, work management and asset management.

On Demand Telemetry Service

An alternative solution for organisations wanting a telemetry system without having

to maintain the resources and infrastructure themselves. The service is modular

and flexible and is tailored to your needs. Costs are fixed annually, regardless of

maintenance issues and there are no licensing agreements.

On Demand Telemetry System

Benefits

•Significantly lower total costs for

each customer site.

•Managed servers; no internal IT

support or management required.

•Access to information 24/7.

•Full configuration option ensures

that the correct data is collected

when it is needed.

Copa-Data Smart City Solutions

Point Colour RTUs integration with

Zenon SCADA for Smart City/

Water and Waste Water/ Critical

Infrastructure Solutions

RW Systems Water Office

• A spatial asset management system, compliant with ISO 55000

• Supports water supply including ground water, drainage and irrigation

• Covers the full asset lifecycle – from planning, to existing and then finally the decommissioning; this allows full transparency of the planning and decision procesesses that lead to the as-built situation

• Integrates with other IT systems, such as ERP, CIS, SCADA, etc. to enable a full 360⁰ perspective upon the asset data

• Beyond the basic network registration, it can assist most business processes of the various departments within a water company:– Optimize the planning of network

rehabilitation and extensions– Support daily operations such as

managing outages, or respond to CBYD requests

– Monitor DMAs for Non Revenue Water

Master Control monitors and controls over 2,000

geographically distributed locations ranging from

pressure monitors and flow meters to pumps and

reservoirs.

The scope is: over 18,000 kilometres of mains, 14 dams

268 service reservoirs, 153 pumping stations and 11 filtration plants. 1250

Remote Telemetry Units monitor these assets in the MC system and give

personnel, based in an operations centre, the ability to check the state of

valves, reservoir levels or water pressure at any location within a 150km

radius.1 Systemic control of water and

wastewater

2 Incident Management

3 Energy Management

4 Resource Utilisation

5 Condition monitoring of assets

6 Derived information

7 Central data storage and archiving.

Offline hydraulic models provide

guidance for future settings of

operational parameters and these

are fed into MC as dynamic

configurable variables.

Sydney Water

Sydney Water DMA

Before

After

•No cubicle outside house

•No power lines/comms cables

•Lower Price

•Good Customer Outcome

•Lower Civil Costs

•Lower Install Cost

•Lower commissioning cost

•Lower configuration cost

•Lower lifecycle cost

Anglian Water

Water Utility Profile

• Territory: 27,500 sq km

– Largest in UK

• Customers Served: 5.6

million properties

– >2 million customer calls pa

• Network

– 36,462 km of Water Mains

...lowest leakage in industry

– 279 reservoirs, 138 WTW

• SCADA: MetaSphere Master

Control regional telemetry

• GIS: Intergraph G Technology

• CRM: SAP

Ruse, Bulgaria DMA Project

Complete leakage management, operational and regulatory

reports, options for quality monitoring

Ruse, Bulgaria DMA Project

▪ Water Losses Reduction

▪ Flow analysis

▪ Water Supply Breaks Reduction

▪ Operational Activities Improvement

▪ Investment Plans Optimization

Qмин/Qcp > 0.6

Qмин/Qcp < 0.3

YWS CSO Project

Recently METASPHERE have won a large

contract (framework) with Yorkshire Water for

the Installation & Maintenance of up to 2500+

Point Blue RTUs.

Equipment installed:

• Point Blue (ATEX)

• Pulsar dBi ultrasonic probe

• External antenna.

Stara Zagora, Bulgaria CSO monitoring

Prague dBi + MicroFlow-i + Point Blue

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