An MCERTS-accredited, battery-powered portable area-velocity monitor for regulated discharge, storm overflow and sewer network studies. Five-year deployment on one battery pack.
SKU MSFM-MCERTS
You have a compliance obligation and the number has to be defensible to someone who is not on your side.
The MSFM is an insertion multi-sensor monitor for partially filled pipes and open channels. If your pipe is full, use a portable clamp-on flow meter instead — it is a better tool for that job.
Most flow meters are bought because someone wants to know a number. The MSFM is bought because someone is going to be audited on a number.
MCERTS is the certification scheme an inspector looks for when verifying flow data submitted under a discharge permit. The practical consequence: when you submit the data, the conversation is about the data. It is not about whether the instrument that produced it was adequate. That is a different and much shorter conversation, and it is worth paying for.
Remote sites become viable. Emergency overflows, rural pump stations, catchment monitoring points, storm outfalls — the places you most need flow data are exactly the places with no mains power. Running power to a manhole in a field costs more than the instrument.
The ATEX rating on the battery pack is not decoration. Sewers generate methane and hydrogen sulfide. A sewer is a potentially explosive atmosphere and should be treated as one.
The traditional way to measure open channel flow is to build a hydraulic structure and read the head over it. That works, and it means pouring concrete in a live sewer — civil engineering, a contractor, a permit, and a flow diversion. The MSFM determines flow from velocity, depth and temperature directly. It goes in and it starts logging.
For inflow-and-infiltration work — where the whole point is correlating flow against rainfall across dozens of points — telemetry is not a convenience, it is the method. The system accepts data from telemetered monitors of any make, which matters if you are extending an existing network rather than starting one.
| Meter type | Self-contained, battery-powered insertion multi-sensor area-velocity monitor — NOT clamp-on |
|---|---|
| Application | Partially filled pipes, sewers, open channels. Regulated discharge monitoring. |
| Accreditation | MCERTS accredited — meets Environmental Permitting Regulations (EPR) requirements |
| Velocity sensor | Dual piezoelectric elements, 0.03 m/s to 4.00 m/s |
| Depth sensor | Hydrostatic pressure-based, 0.0 m to 3.5 m |
| Temperature sensor | Titanium diaphragm isolated silicon sensor, −20 °C to +60 °C |
| Power | 12 V ATEX Li-ion rechargeable battery pack — typical 5-year life |
| Data logger | Solid-state memory, selectable recording intervals |
| Communications | 2G/3G GSM/GPRS, worldwide compatibility |
| Protection | IP68 / NEMA6P |
| Operating temperature | −20 °C to +60 °C |
| Flow determination | Velocity, depth, and temperature — no weir or flume required |
Specifications transcribed from the manufacturer datasheet and subject to change. Confirm against the controlling document before specifying — Seztec will send it to you on request.
This instrument is specified into the following industries. Each page covers the specific measurement problems, the fluids involved, and what usually goes wrong.
Send us pipe size, pipe material, wall thickness, lining, fluid, and how much straight run you have. A Seztec application engineer will confirm the fit — or tell you it is the wrong instrument, which happens and which we would rather say before you buy.
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