Flow Measurement Service (FMS)

The Flow Measurement Service (FMS) is the CygNet Software service that retrieves data, including electronic flow meter (EFM) data, from various sources for CygNet Measurement. The CygNet Measurement system retrieves, stores, validates, estimates, analyzes, edits, and approves the data for reporting to external systems. The FMS service functions as the interface between the Microsoft SQL Server database and the SCADA system. Optionally, the supplied FMS internal database can be used in appropriate production environments.

CygNet Measurement is delivered with a 64-bit Flow Measurement Service (FMS), providing improved efficiency and performance over the 32-bit FMS service.

The Measurement service is unique within the CygNet environment because of the following features:

• it uses a relational database (Microsoft SQL Server or FMS internal database)
• the quality and integrity of data is more important than its timeliness
• the quantity of data is immense
• it has a unique replication model employing the concept of multiple business slaves or a single DR slave
• it cannot do daisy-chain replication servers.

See CygNet Measurement for more information.