The website has been updated with an amended Roadmap, WITS Status and the 2 Application Notes AN2005-001 Ver 1.5 and AN2005-002 Ver 1.5. This is to reflect the current dual versions of the protocol – one supporting SAv2 (version 1.3) plus another supporting SAv5 (version 2.1).
Refer to The Protocol section.
South West Water
SWW have included the requirement for the WITS interface to be delivered as part of the new Master Station system being delivered by CSE Servelec. WITS will be a key requirement of any future RTU specification and during the remainder of AMP 5 South West Water will enter a procurement exercise to select an appropriate RTU suite which will form the basis of the asset maintenance plan (currently circa 2000 devices) and expansion […]
A Field Device that is periodically logging a counter value is required to reset the counter to zero after the current value has been logged at the end of the period. Any other event log for the counter point does not affect the counter value.
Technical Bulletin #45 updates the WITS-DNP3 technical documentation with details of the Incremental Configuration record to configure the counter point(s) to behave this way. It also shows the updates to the […]
In order to accommodate new and legacy versions of DNP3 Secure Authentication, the Committee has decided that henceforth there will be 2 WITS streams:
New TBs will be incorporated into both versions. The two release packs are now available:
Two revised Test Specs are also […]
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Brodersen wins double framework agreement with Thames Water
Reading, 17 May 2013 – Brodersen has been awarded the contract to supply more than 1500 telemetry outstations to Thames Water in frameworks AMP5 and AMP6 extending to 2020. The contract supports the further strengthening and extension of Brodersen in the United Kingdom.
Thames Water is the UK’s biggest water and […]
The IET Water Event will be held on the 21st and 22nd of May in the East Midlands Conference Centre, Nottingham, UK. WITS will be represented at the event. Thames Water will give a presentation. We would welcome delegates who wish to know more about us and the Protocol.
See the event website here.
We are pleased to welcome Mitsubishi and the Environment Agency as new Members. The EA were founder members of the original development team.
We now have a total of 79 members of the Protocol Standards Association and we are growing all the time. We welcome all organisations both large and small. The PSA is going from strength to strength and the WITS Protocol is growing in acceptance as the international standard for Water industry telemetry.
The WITS Roadmap and the WITS Release Records documents have been updated – refer to The Protocol section.
WITS Technical Bulletin TB43 has been released and is available to members in the Members library. This TB will be included in the upcoming WITS V2.1 release (in addition to the existing TB42). TB43 clarifies IC records 1000, 1001 and 1009. It also clarifies actions when applying and removing action inhibits. A correction is also made to the introductory section describing data set prototypes.
