ITT Water & Wastewater has welcomed a new initiative which aims to bring standardisation to water industry telemetry communication.

The Water Industry Telemetry Standards (WITS) aim to evolve current technologies to a point where any remote field device is able to communicate with any telemetry system.  The standardisation will be achieved via a defined set of communication standards and protocol, which will ensure that any approved field device will be able to communicate with any approved telemetry master system and vice versa.

ITT Water & Wastewater is a founder member of the WITS project, working as part of the vendor team which created the WITS protocol.

Guy Fitzpatrick, market development manager for monitoring and control, said:  'These new standards will ensure that users have much more freedom to select from a wide variety of field devices for use on their systems, ensuring the elimination of costly protocol emulations and, in turn, ensuring increased competition.  We believe both vendors and users will benefit from these new standards and ITT Water & Wastewater is delighted to support this initiative.'