The TCS Temperature Concentrator System from Moore Industries is claimed to substantially reduce the cost of transmitting multiple temperature sensor measurements by concentrating up to 32 signals onto a single twisted wire pair. The system provides a precision measurement at less than 25 percent the cost of using comparable stand-alone smart temperature transmitters. The TCS accepts any combination of RTD, T/C, mV and resistance/potentiometer signal inputs, converts the inputs to the HART digital communications protocol, and transmits the data long distances from the field to the control room on an economical HART digital data link over a twisted wire pair. All process, status and diagnostic information can then be accessed by a HART-based control system."As we all know, manufacturing companies are continuously looking to reduce costs. To do this, some are moving away from stand-alone transmitters to lower cost per point temperature bricks," says Tina Lockhart, Moore Industries’ Director of Engineering. "Saving real estate also equates to reduced overall costs. At less than 5 inches wide, each of our TCS modules will handle 16 measurements in a fraction of the space required by stand-alone transmitters."
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