Product category: Electronics Manufacturing Services
News Release from: R2 Controls | Subject: Microcontroller design and manufacture
Edited by the Electronicstalk Editorial Team on 27 October 2003
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R2 Controls has delivered its first custom-designed water flow control system manufactured for Control Design of Albuquerque, New Mexico
Control Design is a manufacturer of remotely accessed (using radio modem technology) water, gas and oil flow monitoring and control systems widely used by government and local water management and distribution agencies, oil and gas industrial companies, natural resource engineering and consulting firms and agricultural users such as farmers, ranchers and cooperatives.
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Control Design has been providing wireless-telemetry-based, remotely accessed water, gas and oil flow monitoring and control systems to its customers in the Southwestern USA for ten years.
There are now over 2000 of these devices installed in several Southwestern states, including, New Mexico, Texas, Colorado, Oklahoma and Arizona.
In one type of application, the Control Design C18/C4X monitoring and control unit enables an irrigation district to monitor, measure, record and report, to a centralised location, the amount of water flowing through an irrigation canal, or into and out of any farmer's waterway, during a selected period of time.
These data can be captured and logged as frequently as every 10s.
In other water distribution systems, the same C18/C4X units can be used to monitor, measure and control the amount of water flowing into or out of private wells, community or individual storage tanks, or local reservoirs According to Jim Conley, Control Design's President and Chief Technology Officer: "The agreement with R2 Controls is a unique alliance partnership that integrates Control Design's proven industrial radio modem and I/O technology with R2 Controls microcontroller engineering and manufacturing expertise.
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It is much more than the typical customer-manufacturer relationship; it is an alliance that integrates and optimises the unique capabilities of each company and their proven individual core competencies".
R2 Controls President and CEO Tim Hinchey readily agreed, noting that: "The alliance with Control Design leverages the close relationship and interdependent capabilities of R2 Controls and sister manufacturing services company, Dynesco, two separate Roseville corporations, colocated in one building and managed by the same executives.
We are able to combine R2 Control's microcontroller design, engineering and software applications development expertise with the real-time responsiveness and quality of the assembly and manufacturing services provided by Dynesco.
We are obviously very pleased to have been selected by Control Design for codevelopment and manufacturing of their products that have long proven their effectiveness in the very important fields of natural resource management and automation".
Beginning in the week of 8th September 2003, Control Design began deploying the 140 C18A and C18B monitoring and control systems, manufactured by R2 Controls, in several irrigation district locations in New Mexico.
Control Design's Jim Conley stated that: "The actual locations include some of the harshest physical environments for deployment of such devices and require transmission of the recorded data over mountainous and rugged terrain back to a central irrigation district office.
According to one irrigation district manager, no other device that they have evaluated can perform as reliably and accurately as the Control Design C18 technology, and no other device provides the quality of radio transmissions as is provided by the wireless telemetry technology incorporated into the C18 products".
At a time when the availability of water to an ever-increasing population is becoming a major concern, the Control Design monitoring and control systems provide a very much-needed tool to enable improved water use efficiency in agricultural, industrial and residential environments.
Although this is a national concern, the climatic conditions in the Southwestern USA make water use efficiency a major agenda item for state and local governments in this region.
The Control Design wireless telemetry products can also be used for comparable monitoring and efficient management of other natural resources, such as oil and natural gas, at a time when the demand for the diminishing supply of such resources is increasing.
Control Design and R2 Controls fully expect the demand for these monitoring and control systems to expand rapidly as other water distribution agencies realise the value these products can bring to their initiatives to significantly improve water use efficiency.
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