Product category:
Asset Management and maintenance planning
News Release from: MetaSphere
Edited by the Processingtalk Editorial
Team on 08 February 2007
How telemetry can deliver business
solutions
Created following an MBO from LogicaCMG, MetaSphere is the new face of one of the most successful real-time asset management businesses in the world.
Created following an MBO from LogicaCMG, MetaSphere is the new face of one of the most successful real-time asset management businesses in the world By combining 20 years of experience with a fresh new approach to telemetry management, MetaSphere is set to revolutionise the way industry uses telemetry data to optimise ongoing operations
This article was originally published on Processingtalk on 15 Mar 2007 at 8.00am (UK)
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The new approach has resulted from the company taking a step back from its IT and engineering roots.
By analysing the complex structures, issues and pressures facing utility managers, MetaSphere has developed a whole new perspective on how telemetry can be used to deliver business solutions - helping customers to revolutionise the way they collect, manage, analyse, display and action data.
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"There is a massive difference between data and information," explains Steve Mustard, Managing Director of MetaSphere: "In the past there has normally been so much data that those in a monitoring role could not see the wood for the trees.
It is only when you process this data that it becomes the useful information that is needed to run the business.
Telemetry data has always been there, as has the means to collect it, but what we are offering is a way of automating its collection and then providing new means by which customers can process it, analyse it and then present it in an easy-to-use recognisable, actionable fashion".
In a typical application a control room would be barraged with vast quantities of telemetry data upon which it would have to base its decisions.
In most cases, the analysis of the data and the subsequent decision arising from the analysis are extremely labour-intensive and far from efficient.
"By introducing an automated approach, our customers will be able to react far quicker than they are now," Mustard continues, "indeed they can even react before issues arise based on automated trend analysis highlighting potential problems before they actually occur".
The company already has a number of project successes and orders under its belt.
Two of the most significant ones recently announced are service agreements with Anglian Water and Yorkshire Water.
Both encompass on-going support and future enhancements to the already advanced regional telemetry infrastructure and related systems in line with current and future customer and industry demands.
Both five year contracts are testaments to the confidence that these two large utility companies have in the MetaSphere capabilities and allows them to take advantage of the MetaSphere forward looking strategy until well into the next water industry investment cycle starting in 2010.
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