At the 2003 IWEX International Water Exhibition held at the NEC Birmingham, Hydro-Logic's successful joint development project with IETG won the IWEX 2003 Innovation Award for 'HawkEye'. HawkEye is a fully integrated continuous level and alarm monitoring telemetry outstation, specifically designed to monitor the performance of combined sewer overflows (CSO's).

45 Entries were short listed in total covering the seven categories and Hawkeye fought off stiff competition from nine other companies to win the award in the category 'Most Effective Monitoring and Control System'.

The award dinner citation applauded the achievement by stating "Permanent CSO monitoring is becoming almost a mandatory requirement for the water industry. HawkEye is the first fully integrated measurement and telemetry system designed to carry out this task, providing significant operational and cost benefits along the way."

Jim Grandison, Associate Director of  Water Technology at IETG, accepted the award on behalf of the two companies and commented "We are particularly proud to be recognised for HawkEye as it's the first completely integrated system of its type. Both IETG and the Isodaq division of Hydro-logic, our product development partner, have worked hard to research, develop and manufacture what is already becoming a key system through which water companies can carry out effective CSO compliance monitoring".

Rod Hawnt, Hydro-Logic's Managing Director added, "We are delighted that the joint efforts of both ourselves and IETG in designing Hawkeye to meet customers demands for a low-cost monitor, has been recognised in this way by the water industry. We look forward to continuing the successful collaboration with IETG."

Hawkeye will be jointly marketed by both companies via a network of international distributors. The product is the first model in the new 'Hawk' range of Isodaq low cost, multi-channel data loggers and telemetry outstations. Telemetry options for other models in the range include a choice of battery-powered communications modems, PSTN, GSM, un-licensed radio and satellite, via the low-earth orbiting Iridium network.

One of the first applications for the Hawk system will be providing telemetry polling and alarm capability for Teledyne RDi's new range of continuous flow meters - the ChannelMaster H-ADCP system.