Telit Wireless Solutions and Powelectrics Ltd have announced collaboration in the wireless telemetry application market with the launch of Powelectrics’ Telit-based product “Metron2”. The Metron2 is a multi-function cellular-connected telemetry device capable of making remote fill-level readings in tanks containing liquids and gases. The device’s integral display allows the unit to be used also as a local gaugeandforsystem setup and testing. An optional pulse-counter board allows the device to take external meter readings.
Wide-area-network connected with the Telit GE864-QUAD V2 cellular module and self powered from an internal battery make installation of the Metron2 quick and easy to accomplish. An intuitive user interface expedites set up and testingprocesses. The Metron2can be powered from different sources including an internal battery or an external 6-24Vdc source. It is often not economically feasible to run power to the site for remote telemetry installations. One such instance is the cryogenic gas monitoring segment where it is important that the device be on and available to be polled any time - day or night. For this market, Powelectrics developed a solar power system.
The solar powered telemetry system allows the unit to remain ‘always on’ and connected to the GSM/GPRS network so the server can make contact at any time with instant reading requests. Equipped with the Metron2, a tanker truck can be dispatched to best matching customer locationsaccording to volume available in the tanker and volume required by customers, efficiently exhausting the tanker’s full supply of product instead of transporting it back to base saving fuel and removing the risk of the returned product contaminating the storage or process facility.
Knowing how much product is in the customer’s tanks makes it possible to plan when and which truck
“It is rewarding to be a part of products adding as much value to business and society as this one. We see the Metron2 as a powerful telemetry solution with the potential to serve well a vast number of segments going way beyond the chemical industry” said Dominikus Hierl, Chief Marketing Officer at Telit Wireless Solutions.
“The last couple of years have seen a dramatic upturn in demand for our product as users of telemetry become comfortable with the reliability and more aware of the benefits that telemetry brings. We continue to develop our already well proven solutions helping drive down the total cost of ownership and therefore reducing the payback time. Telemetry has never been so affordable,” said David Oakes, Sales Director Powelectrics.
