This note provides guidelines for the content of product related articles to be published on the WITS PSA web site. Articles should conform to the following:

• Articles can be used to promote or discuss a wide range of issues and concepts associated with the WITS-DNP3 Protocol
• Content should not be exclusively for the sales of, or to promote a particular product.
• The article can cover the technical merit of a particular product
• The article can […]
  

There has been recent discussion over the continued use of DNP3 Secure Authentication Version 2 (SAv2) and a transition to Version 5 (SAv5) in the WITS-DNP3 Protocol. For information about this transition, you can read a high level article on this or a more detailed discussion on the exact differences between SAv2 and SAv5.

The deprecation of SAv2 by the DNP committee and the adoption of SAv5 has raised some concerns about the availability of […]

In December 2015 the Water & Sewerage Journal published an article about WITS. This time it was entitled “WITS-DNP3 Protocol Adoption Progresses” and was written by Charles Williams.  This is the fourth time that they have asked us for an article, so we were very pleased to provide an update on our activities and on the way that the Protocol is being adopted throughout the UK.

To view the article, click on the link which will take […]

Water companies around the country have a major task ahead in order to be compliant with the Private Drains and Sewers (PDaS) requirements, which come into effect in October 2016. With thousands of properties falling under the new remit, finding suitable telemetry devices, compliant with the Water Industry Telemetry Standard (WITS) is now an increasing priority.

From October 2016 OFWAT has ruled that water companies will become responsible for most private sewers, lateral drains and pumping […]

About the author

Charles Williams – Strategic Business Director, Grontmij
MIET CEng BSc Electrical and Electronic Engineering

Charles has over 25 years experience in telemetry, SCADA, instrumentation, control and automation in the water, transportation and nuclear industries. He has supported the WITS initiative since its inception and is currently the Chairman of the WITS DNP 3 Protocol Standards Association committee.

The need for a standard protocol

All UK water companies use telemetry and SCADA to monitor and control their remote […]

Some of our members gave presentations at the IET Water Event last May. Please click on the links to view the presentations and video.

WITS PSA, ABB and Thames Water Combined Presentation

• Water Industry Telemetry Standards – Charles Williams, Grontmij
• An explanation of WITS – Ray Keech, ABB
• An integrated flow and pressure metering solution with GPRS WITS protocol – Ray Keech, ABB
• Implementation of the WITS based SCADA within Thames Water – Russell Wheadon, Thames […]