Telemetry and SCADA Integration for Gas Metering (UK)
NC13 Industries Ltd designs, deploys, and supports end-to-end telemetry and SCADA/DCS/BMS integrations for primary and secondary gas metering. We connect meters, Electronic Volume Converters (EVCs), and sensors to your control systems and historians with clean, reliable data mapped to your tags and screens.
We engineer hybrid wired and wireless topologies, optimise protocols, and harden networks for secure, resilient operation across UK industrial sites.
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Accredited: IGEM • IET • IMechE • ISO 9001 & ISO 14001
What We Deliver
| Capability | Description |
|---|---|
| Architecture & design | End-to-end telemetry and SCADA architectures for metering skids, kiosks, and plantrooms — including data models, tag maps, and alarm strategy. |
| Gateway & protocol engineering | Configuration of gateways and EVC comms: polling, scaling, timestamping, exception reporting, store-and-forward, and redundancy. |
| SCADA/BMS integration | Clean mapping into SCADA/DCS/BMS with handover docs: point lists, registers, and test records. Custom graphics on request. |
| Historian & cloud | Ingestion into plant historians and the NC13 myAMR Historian for dashboards, alarms, and exportable reports. |
| Cybersecurity & reliability | Private APN, VPN, TLS, user roles, audit trails, network segmentation, and fail-safe behaviors for remote sites. |
| Documentation | Commissioning certificates, protocol maps, network diagrams, FAT/SAT, and operations guides. |
Protocols and Communication Mediums
Protocols We Configure
- Modbus RTU/TCP — universal connectivity between meters/EVCs and SCADA/DCS
- M-Bus — European standard for multi-meter and sub-meter networks
- BACnet/IP & MS/TP — native integration with Building Management Systems
- LoRaWAN — long-range, low-power telemetry for dispersed or battery nodes
- Cellular telemetry — GPRS/4G/LTE-M/NB-IoT to portals and historians (private APN supported)
- MQTT/HTTPS — lightweight, secure transport to cloud or on-prem brokers
- OPC-UA — modern, secure middleware for plant-wide data exchange
- IEC 60870-5-104 / DNP3 — utility-grade telemetry (where specified)
Wired and Wireless Media
- RS-485 (Modbus RTU, BACnet MS/TP) and two-wire M-Bus for robust multi-drop serial links
- Ethernet (Modbus TCP, BACnet/IP, OPC-UA, MQTT/HTTPS) for fast plant integration
- Fibre backbones between skids, plantrooms, and control rooms (noise-immune, long-range)
- LoRaWAN radio for hard-to-cable or distributed assets
- Cellular with private APN/VPN for secure remote connectivity
We deliver consistent, validated mappings for flow, pressure, temperature, totals, alarms, and events — engineered for reliability and cyber-safe transport.
Typical Integration Flow
Meter → EVC → Gateway → (Modbus/M-Bus/BACnet/LoRaWAN/Cellular) → SCADA/BMS → Historian/myAMR
Where required, we add buffering and store-and-forward to prevent data loss during comms outages, with retries and alarm escalation.
Security and Remote Access
- Private APN/VPN for device isolation and controlled ingress
- TLS for encrypted MQTT/HTTPS uplinks and API calls
- Network segmentation (SCADA/DMZ/Corporate) with firewall policies
- User management with roles, MFA (where supported), and audit logging
- Change control and configuration backups for rapid recovery
Recent UK Projects
- Primary metering telemetry upgrade — Modbus TCP to SCADA with fibre backbone (North West)
- Secondary metering into BMS — M-Bus aggregation with BACnet/IP export (University campus)
- Remote EVC fleet — LoRaWAN nodes with cellular backhaul and private APN (Industrial estate)
“Rock-solid data into our SCADA from day one — exactly what we needed.” — Controls Lead, UK Manufacturing
Next Steps
Upgrading telemetry, adding EVCs, or consolidating mixed protocols into SCADA/BMS/historian?
Related Pages
Telemetry and SCADA FAQs
Which protocols do you support?
Modbus RTU/TCP, M-Bus, BACnet/IP & MS/TP, LoRaWAN, cellular (GPRS/4G/LTE-M/NB-IoT), MQTT/HTTPS, OPC-UA.
Can you secure remote sites with private APN/VPN?
Yes — we implement private APN and VPN, TLS encryption, firewalling, and role-based access with audit trails.
Do you integrate with our existing SCADA/BMS and historian?
Yes — we map clean tags and units into SCADA/DCS/BMS and ingest to plant historians or cloud platforms.
What if we have mixed vendors and legacy protocols?
We use protocol gateways and staged migrations to unify data while maintaining uptime.