Meter Selection and Installation Support
Each meter category below provides guidance on meter specifications, applications, and installation support. From our experience the successful integration of metering data is critical for our customers to truly realize the value from any metering system. Learn more about our data integration products to see how they can simplify and expedite any energy monitoring initiative.
Electric Sensors and Meters
Electrical Energy Monitoring is accomplished through a variety of products that delivers their own unique value at a mix of price points. Commonly overlooked, the integration and dashboarding of data is still an essential step in the process of any metering initiative.
An expansive and intuitive energy monitoring dashboard will simplify data retrieval and provide intuitive user access to the collected data.
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Natural Gas Meters
Insertion Thermal mass and inline natural gas meters provide great metering options for submetering of natural gas service to buildings, HVAC heating, boilers and industrial cooking or heat treat processes.
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Ultrasonic Water Meters
Ultrasonic and inline water meters provide a great option for measuring water flow in a variety of piping materials. Water is an essential resource in manufacturing where main incoming water metering and sewer (discharge) water metering might be required.
Critical process management will also include water metering to account for ingredient water, cooling tower water and sanitation water usage.
BTU Thermal Energy Meters
Ultrasonic or in-flow BTU Meters monitor thermal loads within a closed loop central heating or cooling plant. These central chilled and heating water loops provide heating and cooling to large buildings and campus' while centralizing infrastructure systems to achieve greater operational efficiency.
Our meters will monitor central and branch circuit flow and delta-T to determine thermal loads being produced at the boiler or chiller and the demand for heating or cooling at the branch circuits.
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Compressed Air Meters
Compressed air is an essential energy resource in manufacturing environments. Its generation, distribution and end use points can introduce significant inefficiencies and waste. We recommend the use of insertion thermal mass meters to meter total air generation and at high usage points of use to track air consumption and generation efficiency.
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Steam Meters
Emergent is a reseller of Vortek steam meters. There are 2 primary steam metering technologies supported by Vortek. These measurement technologies include a turbine sensor or a vortex shedding sensor. Steam meters are very sensitive to low flow conditions as the the vortex shedding technology has limited low flow capabilities while the turbine meters have lower max flow thresholds since the turbine is actually a moving part that is the flow path of the steam.
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Automation and LoraWan Integration
We leverage our automation components for direct integration of our meters into our cloud dashboard or to a local on premise installation. Our preferred integration path is to leverage the Tridium Niagara JACE 9000 controller for on premise installations and to use the Panoramic Power cloud dashboard for cloud based integration services.
LoraWan data integration has grown in popularity due to the ease of installation and the long range wireless capabilities of this 1 central receiver to many points system (Pinwheel topography).
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Data Dashboarding
We provide several dashboarding options to our customers depending on their current SCADA infrastructure. There are options to make our energy metering data ready for consumption by their inhouse SCADA system. Through these different paths our meters and sensors can be integrated to an existing onsite Rockwell, Siemens or Schneider frontend or we can provide a new Tridium Niagara JACE 9000 front end for new on premise installations.
Our cloud based solution will leverage either the Panoramic Power web-based dashboard. Other options are also available for customers that might have an extensively built out automation system, enabling cloud based automation.
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Custom Reporting, Tenant AMR and Billing
Tenant metering and subsequent billing services provides live and historical energy monitoring data that can be used to develop tenant bills for cost coverage and recovery from tenants when a site is metered centrally at a Central Plant. Submetering of chilled / heating water, steam and compressed air can be leveraged to segregate tenant energy usage of all primary and secondary energy sources.
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