NI-01-08-2010

In order and together with a company from South Germany the engineering office IMBUS develops a new test facility for domestic gas meters.

By the increasing use of Smart meters also within the gas range ever more electronics at the domestic gas meter will be used. So far electronics for the classical diaphragm gas meter was not needed, now additional electronic devices are used. Electronics becomes generally more and more cheaply, long-lived and reliable. In such a way also the cost advantage of the simple diaphragm gas meters opposite electronic domestic gas meters with other measurement principles is cancelled. On the one hand these new electronic meters have more functionality, on the other hand they are more exactly. Already the inclusion of the gas temperature on the determination of the flowed gas volume is already a large advantage.

These new meters need of course also new test procedures and require higher demands against the test equipment. They will not only check the domestic meters with more than 3 test flows, but also with different gas- and ambient temperatures and with different gases. In that way for the first time it will be possible in the domestic meter measurement, to calibrate and to verify these gas meters with natural gas as a standard metrological test.

NI-08-06-2010

... this key word is in the mind of the entire measuring technique industry. A larger radical change is approaching for the meter management in the gas and water supplying industry in Germany, or it is partly already in process.

The European Union keep the market in motion over national borders away with its regulations and standards. Not only that the separation of the energy suppliers from the pipe network companies keeps competition in motion. Also the customer-fairer and visible account got an high importance. Especially this data acquisition and the processing lets exceed the pipe network companies over the pure owner of the pipes and measuring and control stations. The part of the electronics becomes ever higher, in addition, increasingly more economical.

This will cause in the future changes, in a very conservative industry. Service supplier like the engineering office IMBUS expect this development with interest and optimism, since innovation and idea wealth are increasingly requested.

More also to this topic you can find in the article "Changes in the gas and water supplying industry and the effects on the meter management".