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Hi,

Does anyone know of any water meter and gas meter capable of communicating with an Energy Management Software using modbus, lontalk or BACnet?

Thanks,
Steve

Hello Steve,

For your application, I recommend using a Sensus (or Sensus-compatible) water meter and a Sensus gas meter, both of which communicate their readings using an industry-standard meter protocol.

Then, to link them via Modbus, my company manufactures a device -- the 'EtherMeter' (see ethermeter.com) -- which can translate one or two water/gas meter readings that use this standard meter protocol into the Modbus protocol (Modbus RTU/ASCII/TCP/UDP). FYI, it also translates into Rockwell/Allen Bradley protocols, as well.

In your case, one of our translators would be able to handle both a water meter and a gas meter.

Here's a link to Sensus' water meter register:

http://na.sensus.com/Module/Catalog/File/water?id=145

Here's a link to Sensus' gas meter register:

http://na.sensus.com/Module/Catalog/File/gas?id=254