Avnet Abacus

  Avnet Abacus helps engineers to develop smart flow meters for monitoring water and gas consumption. The company’s VP of Marketing, Alan Jermyn, here takes a look at what’s driving demand for smart meters, how they work and how they’re built.

  The threat of explosion is real in many industrial applications, from petrochemical refineries and cleaning facilities to flour silos and even landfill sites. While explosion is a hazard anywhere there is a flammable substance in the atmosphere in the form of gas, vapour or dust, the presence of the flammable substance on its own is not enough to trigger an explosion.