BWI: Halma Water Management Provides Environmental Data Logging in Remote Scottish Locations

Press release from Business Wire India
Source: Halma Water Management (HWM)
Wednesday, May 26, 2010 10:00 AM IST (04:30 AM GMT)
Editors: General: Consumer interest, Environment; Business: Advertising, PR & marketing, Business services, Information technology; Technology
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Halma Water Management Provides Environmental Data Logging in Remote Scottish Locations


Mumbai, Maharashtra, India, Wednesday, May 26, 2010 -- (Business Wire India) -- Over 60 Senator+ datalogging systems from Halma Water Management (HWM) are currently being used to collect, collate and transmit data about various environmental conditions in some of the remotest areas of Scotland, where traditional telecoms are unavailable or impractical. Reservoir levels, compensation channel levels and flows, and pipeline flow rates from treatment works to compensation returns all need to be monitored, but they can often be located in hard to access and non-GSM covered places. The Senator+, developed by HWM in conjunction with satellite communication specialist Wireless Innovation Ltd., is purposely designed for just such situations.

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Where there is no infrastructure for more traditional telemetry services - no GSM/SMS signal, too remote for PSTN lines - the Senator+ is able to use its MicroSAT satellite data transmission technology and solar-charged battery power to provide reliable and maintenance-free datalogging services. Scottish Water has been using the product extensively to retrieve important environmental monitoring information remotely: many of the installations can only be reached by various combinations of all-terrain four-wheel-drive vehicles, quad bikes and even hiking.

Fortunately, after the initial installation (easy with the all-in-one cabinet), the units are self-sustaining, and no subsequent maintenance has been needed or undertaken. Significantly, until now this monitoring was effectively impossible - requiring time-consuming and costly manual site visits for each individual reading at each location. Now, the satellite system transmits recorded data as often as every 5 minutes, straight to the user's computing device of choice, wherever they may be. At the heart of the system is the Multi-Channel Senator+ data logger; each logger records from up to 9 separate inputs, can store up to 48,000 individual readings and has programmable alarm condition parameters. The unit is also available with more traditional cellular or PSTN communication options.

About Halma Water Management

Halma Water Management (HWM), a subsidiary of Halma p.l.c., is the world leader and world's largest supplier of leakage management, pressure management and flowmeter technology. HWM is comprised of four Halma companies: Palmer Environmental, Radcom Technologies, Hydreka and FSC, under a single dedicated sales and sales support network. For more information please visit the company's website at http://www.hwm-water.com/. HWM also has a press release blog with an RSS news feed at http://halmapr.com/news/hwm/.

About Halma

Halma p.l.c. (hwww.halma.com) is an international market leader in safety, health and sensor technology. Halma is a public company listed on the London Stock Exchange and has over 4000 employees in over 40 subsidiaries worldwide with a total turnover of over US$780m (2008). Halma's subsidiaries make products that protect lives and improve the quality of life for people through innovation in market leading products which make its customers safer, more competitive and more profitable. These subsidiaries are assisting India's economy in areas such as manufacturing, energy, water and waste treatment, the environment, construction, transport and health.

Halma recently opened a Hub office in Mumbai. For further news about Halma in India and to subscribe to the Halma India RSS News Feed please visit our blog at: http://halmapr.com/news/india/.

HWM head office contact details:
Halma Water Management
Ty Coch House
Llantarnam Park Way, Llantarnam Industrial Estate
Cwmbran NP44 3AW
United Kingdom
Tel: +44 (0)1633 489 479; Fax: +44 (0)1633 877 857
E-mail: sales@hwm-water.com
Website: www.hwm-water.com


CONTACT DETAILS
Mr Kuniyur. J. Srinivasan, Halma India, +91 (22) 42000700, Srini@halma.com
Damian Corbet, Halma Public Relations, +44 (0) 20 8511 1821, dcorbet@halmapr.com

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