What's new at SYS

October, 2001

SYS Inc. has signed a contract with Siemens I&S Division for monitoring and control of medium voltage pumps for irrigation of fields in GAP area.

The project will be implemented in three phases and it will include 10 high capacity medium voltage pump stations, ten gate control and level monitoring stations along a 80km canal. All three phases will be completed in 18 months.

SYS Inc. is responsible for design, supply, installation, programming and commissioning of RTUs for pump stations, gate control and level monitoring stations, a single-site non-interfering MAS Radio System over a pair of UHF frequency, a UHF voice communication system for local operations and maintenance personnel.

October, 2001

SYS Inc. opened a new system integration center in Abu Dhabi - U.A.E. with the sponsorship of Emirates Link for Integrated Technology (Elite).

The new center incorporates a total 2000 m² closed area for system integration, system staging, storage and FAT activities as well as office rooms for administrative and technical staff. The new office is located in Store Area of Abu Dhabi and will be mainly active for providing a better support for existing customers as well pursuing new projects in GCC area.

October, 2001

SYS Inc. and Metso Automation is in process of signing an agreement for long-term cooperation in water, gas, oil and electric SCADA projects.

As it is known, Metso Automation and SYS Inc. has a long history of success in SCADA projects in Turkey. Some examples of project successfully completed by Metso Automation and SYS Inc., include BOTAS Natural GAS SCADA Project which was commissioned in June 2001, ASKI Water and Sewarage SCADA Project which was commissioned in June 2000 and KASKI Water and Sewarage SCADA Project which was commissioned in October 1998.

October, 2001

SYS Inc. has started activities for obtaining ISO 9001 certficate for its services and products. Expected period of completion of all arrangements related to the operation of company as per ISO 9001 is six months.

Activities has started with assignment of qualty contol representative. It is expected to complete the organisational study and quality control policy in this month. It was a good indication that all the company polices and application were mostly matching what ISO requests.

September, 2001

SYS Inc. is appointed by Action Controls Pty Ltd. as the exclusive distributor of Kingfisher RTUs in Turkey.

SYS will provide sales and complete implementation services for Kingfisher RTUs to be utilized in SCADA and automation applications.

Action Controls product range includes RTUs that suits large, medium and small scale SCADA applications for water, oil/gas and electric projects.

Type II Series is an expandable family of RTUs that can be used in large and medium scale projects while LP1 series provides cost-effective and flexible solution for small scale applications.

The key features of Type II RTUs include many communication protocols such as industry standard DNP 3.1, IEC-870-5-101 as well as Kingfisher propriatery protocol, AGA calculations, PIDs, sequence of events tagging, time syncronization and remote upload/download.

LP1 Series of RTUs are mainly suited for applications not requiring future expandability. Very low power consumption allows usage of small size solar panels thus making these RTUs ideal for remote stations where power is not available.

September, 2001

SYS Inc. has recently commissioned the local automation and SCADA systems of three natural gas reducing and measurement stations of Akenerji in Çanakkale, Çorlu and Bursa. The three RMS stations provide natural gas for co-generation systems of Akenerji.

Each RMS station is equipped with a Motorola MOSCAD RTU collecting digital and analog signal stati and values from the field devices, as well as performing AGA calculations and PID loops. The stations are also equipped with Metso Automation's state-of-the-art S/3 SCADA systems for local control and monitoring of stations.

Other key features of the system include HART interface capability, emergency operator panel, gas chromatograph data transfer from remote stations, and flow computer interface.

Each station is also equipped with modems for redundant SCADA communicatons to primary and secondary SCADA centers located in Yapracık - Ankara and Pendik - Istanbul.

SYS Inc. is highly preferred by the Natural Gas Transmission Utility of Turkey (BOTAS), pipeline and RMS contractors and metering system suppliers as being the main supplier and integrator of the existing Natural Gas Transmission SCADA system of BOTAS with Metso Automation.

September, 2001

SYS Inc. has completed an industrial meter reading project with Siemens in Gebze Industrial Zone using SYS's high speed radio modems.

The pilot project consists of two industrial facility equipped with Siemens's intelligent three phase power meters. Each power meter is connected to a RM3473 radio modem which enables remote reading of power meters from main operations center.

The interface between the power meters and the radio modems are via RS232 connections. The radio modems use one UHF frequemcy and over the air speed is 9600 bps with 12.5kHz channel spacing.