MeterStar.com is a combination of Electronic Flow Measurement (EFM), Satellite, and Internet technologies specifically designed to provide natural gas measurement information from hard to reach remote facilities economically. MeterStar is a fully self contained interface that obtains a daily report from an EFM at a predetermined time every day. It then transmits this information via satellite to a data center where the information can either be made available through a very powerful and easy to use WEB interface, or it can be sent via e-mail to your data center for internal uses.

The MeterStar knows how to communicate in the native protocol of the Bristol Babcock™, Fisher Rosemont™, Emerson™, FlowStar, Modbus, and the ABB TotalFlow™ EFM devices. Other devices will be supported in the future. The daily information obtained includes the yesterday's average flowing differential pressure, yesterday's average static line pressure, yesterday's average temperature, and yesterday's volume. This information is then transmitted via satellite utilizing the Inmarsat satellite system consisting of 4 primary satellites with backups thus providing world wide coverage as shown below:

 

MeterStar is packaged to be easy to use and setup, we provide the device ready to go. Simply mount the MeterStar facing south as you would with any solar panel, hook up the cable to the EFM and let it work.

MeterStar has more features for special applications. An instantaneous update of current flow information can be provided at intervals ranging from hourly to weekly. The MeterStar can also check the EFM periodically (typically every 20 minutes) and check for high or low alarms for differential pressure, static pressure, or temperature. If an alarm condition is present, then the alarm will be transmitted to the host immediately.

The MeterStar package has a height of 17 inches and a width of 11 inches, you have the option to mount it directly to the meter house or pole mount.