Company Overview

Carma Industries, a division of 564935 Ontario Limited, was established in 1977 and is located in Peterborough, Ontario.

Carma Industries is in the business of producing cost effective Sub-Metering Solutions, featuring their METER MANAGERTM Submetering System.

Carma's products are CSA APPROVED.

The METER MANAGERTM line is Measurement Canada approved for legal submetering.

Company Information

Additional Details

Legal Name: Carma Industries Inc.

Number of Employees: 15

Total Sales ($CDN): $100,000 - $200,000

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Products

• Custom Billing Packages

  They make billing packages for large companies. ConnectIT Category Description: Accounting Modules Invoicing / Billing. Billing Packages are provided in conjunction with the submetering product.

• Meter Manager Tm

  The METER MANAGER TM provides a reliable electronic sub-metering system. The heart of the system is the Energy Monitoring Pod (EMP), which performs the basic metering functions and can provide the equivalent of 18 network or 12 three-phase meters. The EMP contains non-volatile memory registers to retain metering results during power outages. The EMPs are connected on a Local Area Network (LAN) originating at a conveniently located Host computer. The Host computer allows access to the metering data stored within the EMPs and continually monitors the integrity of the network and the condition of the EMPs. The Host computer can also be supplied with a modem to allow remote access to utility metering information.

  The Energy Monitoring Pod

  The fundamental metering functions are performed by the Energy Monitoring Pods (EMP). The EMP is designed to monitor several metering points and integrate the metering data within non-volatile solid state memory. Each EMP is configured for its specific application. The configuration process identifies the specific application. The configuration process identifies the current and voltage rating of the point to be monitored and the proper phase sequencing. The configuration information is stored in a non-volatile EPROM and is uniquely identified with the corresponding EMP. The final preparation of an EMP, before shipping from the factory, involves calibration of the meters and CCAC bench verification. The CCAC bench verification ensures the required accuracy of the metering device to allow its use for legal billing.

  Host Computer

  In application, the EMPs are linked together on a local area network originating at a central Server computer. The Host computer supports specially designed software that maintains the communication network to the EMPs and allows interrogation of each EMP. The Server software accesses a configuration file that identifies each meter with tenant accounts. The configuration file allows multiple metering points to be allotted to a single tenant account. In this manner, the Server software can be employed to totalize a number of meters and assign the energy measurements to a single account. Reconfiguration of tenant accounts is user accessible through a menu selection within the Server software.

  The Server software displays all the various metering measurements through easy-to-use menu selections. In its normal mode, the software provides 'hands free' operation and automatically logs a billing data file each day. The billing file maintains an up-to-date record of fundamental billing information for each tenant account.

  Under 'normal' mode the Server software also continually monitors the integrity of the communication network and the operation of the EMPs. Disruption of a communication link, unauthorized entry within the EMP and several other conditions are all logged, by the Host system, in a 'history' file.

  At the end of a billing period the user can simply initiate the printing of bills for each of the tenants associated with the metering system. The software is designed to allow wide flexibility in implementing any number of methods employed in calculating the actual apportioning of the main utility bill to the individual tenants. The billing package software further allows customization of the actual format of the bill to suit the needs of the customer. Beyond a hard copy of the bill, the software also maintains a machine readable copy of the billing data for storage and later retrieval as required.

  Outside of the billing function the Server software provides important user-programmable features dealing with both energy and demand profiles. Within this portion of the software, the user can select various options initiating trending of both energy and demand measures. The trending function is fully programmable down to a sampling rate of every fifteen minutes and can be initiated for selected services or all metered services. Trending results can be displayed both graphically and in tabular form and stored conveniently on the Host computer system. The availability of both measures of kW and kVA demand also results in the accurate measure of power factor. This provides a powerful tool in not only monitoring changing load conditions on a service by service basis but the resulting power factor seen for each service metered. Ultimately, the monitoring capability can be combined with control equipment to provide accurate and cost-effective load shedding and load shifting measures.

  Remote Meter Reading

  By simply incorporating a modem within the Host computer, the Server software is designed to allow efficient remote access of the data monitored and contained within the Host computer system. This facility allows centralized monitoring and billing for a number of buildings each incorporating the Meter Manager metering equipment.

• Meters, Multifunction, Digital
• Remote Utilities Supervision

  Daily electrical profiles for buildings, seperating building systems. For Example. Lighting, Cooling, Ventelation, etc.

NAICS Categories

• 334512 Measuring, Medical and Controlling Devices Manufacturing

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