Scada system to organise meteorological monitoring

Edited by the Engineeringtalk editorial team May 5, 2006

The UK Met Office has chosen CSE Servelec's Business Solutions Group to provide an enterprise Scada solution, as the backbone of its new meteorological monitoring system.

The UK Met Office has chosen CSE Servelec's Business Solutions Group to provide an enterprise Scada solution, as the backbone of its new meteorological monitoring system (MMS).

The total value of the contract is in excess of GBP 3 Million.

The Met Office is one of the world's leading providers of environmental and weather-related services.

The new meteorological monitoring system (MMS), replacing existing legacy equipment, will allow data from meteorological sensors to be gathered and stored at the Met Office HQ in Exeter.

The system will allow the Met Office to carry out data processing and analysis centrally in a flexible and manageable way, providing an accurate, valuable long-term meteorological information source.

CSE Servelec's solution for this application will be based on its well established telemetry and Scada suite of software, Scope-X.

Scope-X implements a fully redundant duplicated real-time database seamlessly united to an Oracle long-term historic database and flexible data interfaces.

Scope-X is widely used in the Water and Utility sectors for other wide area applications.

CSE Servelec's current list of blue chip users of Scope-X includes National Grid Gas, Welsh Water, Southern Water, Wessex Water, Trinity House and the Environment Agency.

Alan Stubbs, Managing Director of CSE Servelec stated: "Following the company's success in 2005 we are delighted that our Business Solutions Group has secured this prestigious contract early in 2006".

"All parties put in a tremendous amount of effort in to the placing of this order and our intention is to make it all worthwhile by delivering true business value".

Paul Arthur, Project Manager for MMS says: "I am delighted that CSE-Servelec will be providing this major upgrade to our infrastructure".

"This is the first phase of a major refurbishment of the overall Met Office observations network".

"This contract will supply a versatile observations delivery system that will more efficiently meet customer needs".