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Water/Gas Meter with Modbus/LonTalk/BACnet Compatibility
Hi,
Does anyone know of any water meter and gas meter capable of communicating with an Energy Management Software using modbus, lontalk or BACnet?
Thanks,
Steve
Does anyone know of any water meter and gas meter capable of communicating with an Energy Management Software using modbus, lontalk or BACnet?
Thanks,
Steve
Hello Steve,
For your application, I recommend using a Sensus (or Sensus-compatible) water meter and a Sensus gas meter, both of which communicate their readings using an industry-standard meter protocol.
Then, to link them via Modbus, my company manufactures a device -- the 'EtherMeter' (see ethermeter.com) -- which can translate one or two water/gas meter readings that use this standard meter protocol into the Modbus protocol (Modbus RTU/ASCII/TCP/UDP). FYI, it also translates into Rockwell/Allen Bradley protocols, as well.
In your case, one of our translators would be able to handle both a water meter and a gas meter.
Here's a link to Sensus' water meter register:
http://na.sensus.com/Module/Catalog/File/water?id=145
Here's a link to Sensus' gas meter register:
http://na.sensus.com/Module/Catalog/File/gas?id=254
For your application, I recommend using a Sensus (or Sensus-compatible) water meter and a Sensus gas meter, both of which communicate their readings using an industry-standard meter protocol.
Then, to link them via Modbus, my company manufactures a device -- the 'EtherMeter' (see ethermeter.com) -- which can translate one or two water/gas meter readings that use this standard meter protocol into the Modbus protocol (Modbus RTU/ASCII/TCP/UDP). FYI, it also translates into Rockwell/Allen Bradley protocols, as well.
In your case, one of our translators would be able to handle both a water meter and a gas meter.
Here's a link to Sensus' water meter register:
http://na.sensus.com/Module/Catalog/File/water?id=145
Here's a link to Sensus' gas meter register:
http://na.sensus.com/Module/Catalog/File/gas?id=254
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