Swinton Technology And Swinton Partnership Brief Summary

MeterSuite provides fiscal and allocation fiscal metering computer system functionality utilizing standard Honeywell Experion DCS hardware - instead of utilizing flow computers and bespoke supervisory computer systems. MeterSuite was developed in partnership between Honeywell and Swinton Technology Swinton Technology are contracted to provide metering expertise and engineering services to Honeywell and will engineer the MeterSuite applications on systems sold by Honeywell as well as their own. Further MeterSuite data is available on the Honeywell Website (www.honeywell.com) and the Swinton Technology Website (http://www.swintontechnology.com/). For further information regarding MeterSuite please call Swinton Technology on +44(0)1653 698844

Swinton Technology developed MeterSuite with Honeywell to provide fiscal and allocation fiscal metering computer system functionality utilizing standard Honeywell Experion DCS hardware - instead of utilizing flow computers and bespoke supervisory computer systems.

There are many advantages associated with the use of MeterSuite when compared with traditional metering computer systems - in particular when a Honeywell DCS is used for the sites process control. MeterSuite functionality can be very simply integrated into an existing Honeywell DCS system or supplied as part of a new combined Metering and DCS system utilizing a single technology.

Some of the advantages of such integration are detailed below:

• Single Operator Interface
• Single Technology
• Scalable
• Improved control
• Open connectivity - a wide range of standard communications protocols is available; e.g. HART, Fieldbus, OPC, Modbus
• Truly User Configurable - providing flexibility through standard configuration tools
• Many redundancy options
• Improved support
• Reduced spares holding
• Reduced training requirements
• Reduced footprint
  Reduced cost
• Potentially reduced staffing levels

Systems adopting a number of differing architectures are available - as summarized below:

• Simplex or duplex I/O
• Differing I/O types; e.g. PMIO, Series A I/O and Series B I/O
• Single or redundant controllers
• Single or redundant servers
• Single or redundant networks
• Local and remote clients

A MeterSuite data sheet is available in the download area of our website

A paper titled Flow Computers and Control Systems Interface or Integrate? covering the development of MeterSuite and a summary of the associated advantages was presented at the 2004 North Sea Flow Measurement Workshop at St Andrews in Scotland and was awarded "Best Paper" of the entire workshop. A copy of the paper is available in the download area of our website

Further MeterSuite data is available on the Honeywell Website (www.honeywell.com) For further information regarding MeterSuite please either complete an on-line enquiry form
email enquiries@swintontechnology.com
or call us on +44(0) 1653 698 844