Telog Instruments Announces Telogers Enterprise 4.0 With New Lift Station Algorithm, Time Zone Management
Victor, NY — Telog Instruments, a leader in data acquisition for the water distribution industry, has announced Telogers Enterprise 4.0, the latest version of the most ubiquitous data collection and information system in the American wastewater management industry.
The new release features improved time zone data management for engineering firms and other Enterprise users who host and analyze data for customers in different time zones. Using a single Enterprise database, users can collect and manage data for each customer while keeping the data in the customer's time zone.
For example, if the user's server is in Chicago, IL (Central time zone) and the customer is in Syracuse, NY (Eastern time zone), the user can set that customer's time zone to Eastern time, and it will always appear in Eastern time when the customer checks his data on the user's web site. Customers can choose to view the data in Standard or Daylight Savings time.
Lift station algorithm provides real information
Water utilities in hilly terrain know the challenges of monitoring their lift stations—especially those with forced mains—for potential overloads and breakdown situations. Flow measurement methods have been restricted to the use of expensive mag motors, or to complex computations using the lift station algorithm to approximate the flow without a flow meter. Most utilities forego the calculations altogether.
Telogers Enterprise 4.0 now offers the lift station algorithm as part of the new release, allowing users to monitor their lift stations effectively and find trouble spots before they become flood events. Enterprise 4.0 can gather information about the volume of water traveling through the sump and the intervals at which the pump turns on and off, and calculate the flow with a high level of accuracy.
"The algorithm is a good approximation—an economical, effective solution," said Carleton Quallo, vice president and general manager with Telog Instruments. "Most utilities have not been able to monitor this flow accurately because of the expensive instruments involved, so Enterprise 4.0 delivers information that wastewater management operations have never had before. We can address this blind spot effectively using the algorithm."
Third-party modeling software support
Telog has taken the next step in bringing its agreement with Wallingford Software Limited into practical use, to provide a networked water modeling application to Enterprise customers with calibrated, real-time website hosted information on environment water events and forecast management.
Telog and Wallingford signed a development agreement at WEFTEC in fall 2007 to create a real-time modeling application using Telogers Enterprise and Wallingford's InfoWorks modeling software application. In the resulting application, Telogers Enterprise sources the remote site information on collection system flows and overflows, rainfall, and surface water levels to InfoWorks software. Users can then view the effects of a wet-weather event on river levels, wastewater collection and storm water systems as weather events occur, with real time forecasting and warnings. This will allow users and emergency response teams to more accurately deploy resources during storm events.
SOURCE: Telog Instruments