Veris Industries: Current sensors, building sensors and power meters for commercial HVAC

Overview

Veris Industries started in 1992 in the Portland area of Oregon as a supplier of sensors and peripherals for building automation, according to its company page. It sells to the contractors and integrators who install HVAC controls, and its products sit on the edge of a building management system: a current switch that proves a fan is running, a pressure transducer in a duct, a CO2 sensor in a meeting room, or a meter in an electrical panel.

The company is best known in energy work for its power meters. The Enercept transducer, which puts the measurement electronics and split-core current transformers in one assembly, was patented by Veris in a filing of July 1998. The E30 and E31 panelboard monitors measure every branch circuit of a distribution panel from one board, and the E50 DIN-rail meter became a common choice for submetering. These meters report over Modbus RTU and, on later models, BACnet and Ethernet, so building controllers, data loggers and energy management systems read them directly.

Veris has been part of Schneider Electric since 1999. Schneider's 1999 annual report lists the acquisition of a Veris company in the United States, wholly owned at year end, and a Schneider support article describes Veris Industries as a Schneider Electric affiliate. Several Veris meters have also been sold under Schneider's own names: Schneider calls the E30/E31 the BCPM.

The meter business has since been withdrawn from the Veris catalogue. Its Power and Energy Monitoring category listed 225 products in December 2024 and none by March 2025, while the company still publishes the Modbus point maps for the installed base. Today's catalogue is sensors, current monitoring, relays and power supplies.

Offering

The current catalogue has sixteen categories: CO2, temperature, pressure, humidity, VOC and particulate matter sensors, gas detection, current monitoring, flow and BTU meters, ionization systems, power supplies and transformers, relays, Viconics setpoint devices, smoke detection, water and leak detection, and occupancy sensors. The current monitoring range alone held 80 products in July 2026: 46 current switches such as the H308, H600 and H608, 28 current transducers such as the H721, H722, H921 and H922, and six current monitor relays. The PX3 differential pressure and air velocity transducer is configured over Bluetooth from the Veris Sensors app, which Veris Industries, LLC last updated in November 2025.

Power and energy meters

The meters that matter for energy monitoring are now an installed base rather than a range on sale. In December 2024 the power category held 33 advanced meters, 30 branch circuit meters, four multi-circuit meters, two kW/kWh meters and 131 power metering CTs. The main families were:

• E30 and E31 Series panelboard monitoring systems, measuring the mains and up to 84 branch circuits of a panel through solid-core (E30) or split-core (E31) CT strips, in basic, intermediate, advanced and Ethernet versions (datasheet).
• E34 Series multi-circuit meters, launched in September 2017 in 4, 8, 14 and 28 three-phase meter models.
• E50 and E51 Series DIN-rail meters, from the pulse-only E50B1 to the Modbus E50C2, the logging E50C3 and the BACnet E50H2 (datasheet).
• E71 Series, an Ethernet DIN-rail meter announced in February 2022.
• Enercept H8035 and H8036 networked transducers and the Enercept Flex E23.

Distributors now mark these meters obsolete and point to Schneider Electric's PowerLogic EM3500: ITM names the METSEEM3561 as the direct replacement for the E50H2, and Cochrane Supply lists the E50C3 as replaced by the METSEEM3555.

Technology

Veris meters are serial instruments first. The E50 datasheet describes a meter powered from its 90 to 600 Vac voltage inputs that accepts 0.333 V or 1 V current transformers scaled from 5 A to 32,000 A, measures to ANSI C12.20 0.5% and IEC 62053-22 class 0.5S, and reports power, energy, demand and power factor per phase over two-wire RS-485 Modbus RTU, with password protection against tampering. The BACnet versions were tested by BACnet Testing Laboratories in December 2012 as BACnet MS/TP application specific controllers, and the Enercept Flex E23C5 and E23C6 followed in October 2015.

The E30 and E31 panelboard monitors sample at 2560 Hz, update every two seconds and measure branch currents from 50 mA to 100 A through strips with 3/4 inch, 1 inch or 18 mm spacing, with 1% system accuracy to IEC 62053-21 class 1 and ANSI C12.1 including the CTs. A/B/C models speak Modbus RTU over two- or four-wire RS-485 and use two Modbus addresses per board; E3xE models add an RJ-45 port with Modbus TCP, BACnet/IP and SNMP v2c, plus BACnet MS/TP. Channels can be grouped into 4, 8, 14 or 28 virtual three-phase meters. Schneider's register list for the BCPM is the same map, and the Veris NetConfig tool exists in Schneider-branded and unbranded builds.

The Enercept H8035 and H8036 calibrate their electronics and integral split-core CTs as one system for plus or minus 1% of reading from 10% to 100% of rated current, detect and correct CT orientation, run at 9600 baud 8N1 and allow 63 units on one RS-485 segment. The E71 moved to Ethernet: BACnet/IP, Modbus TCP and SNMP on all models, two RJ45 ports for daisy chains, IPv6, embedded web pages and 36 months of 15-minute logging, and its BTL listing covers firmware 1.9.0 against protocol revision 15 in July 2024.

The Modbus downloads page still carries current and legacy point maps for the E30/E31, E34, E50, E51, E54, H8035/H8036 and E23, the E3x commissioning guide, integer multiplier tables and configuration software, which is what an integrator needs to read the installed meters.

Markets

Veris sells to commercial HVAC and building automation in North America. Its company page describes it as an energy and environmental sensor partner for commercial HVAC and other automation applications, and the site's navigation is organised for industrial, commercial and contractor buyers. Sales run through authorised distributors and an online store, and the supporting material is in US units and approvals: UL 508 listing, ANSI accuracy classes, and the California Solar Initiative approval of the Enercept transducers.

The meters were aimed at building owners who needed to know where energy goes. The E34 launch named hotels, hospital and university campuses, airports, large office complexes, retail malls and industrial buildings, and the E30 and E31 datasheet lists load-based cost allocation, data centre power distribution, sub-tenant billing, lighting control panels and load balancing. The E50 datasheet adds renewable energy, commercial submetering and industrial monitoring.

Within Schneider Electric the Veris line overlaps with the parent's own PowerLogic metering. Schneider has published equivalents for Veris energy meters since 2013, mapping the Veris H8150 and H8163 meters to PowerLogic EMB and EME part numbers, and still directs support for Veris Hawkeye current products to Veris itself in its support article. With the power category withdrawn, distributors such as ITM and Cochrane Supply now steer new meter orders to PowerLogic EM3500 models, leaving Veris with the sensor and current-monitoring business and the support of meters already in service.

Company

Veris Industries, LLC is based at 12345 SW Leveton Drive in Tualatin, Oregon, a suburb south of Portland, the address its website and its BTL listings give. It dates its start to 1992 and states ISO 9001 certification and ISO 14001 certification since 2004 on its company page, which also shows ASHRAE, EPRI, IEEE and NEMA as affiliated organisations. The Enercept patent names Jim Lewis and Paul Stoffregen as inventors, with Veris Industries LLC as assignee.

Schneider Electric's 1999 annual report lists "Veris Company (USA)" among the businesses newly consolidated by acquisition in 1999, with a 100% interest at 31 December 1999 and none a year earlier. A Schneider support article first published in 2006 calls Veris Industries a Schneider Electric affiliate. Veris's own pages do not describe the ownership, and the company keeps its own name, site, support line and trademarks. The E34 announcement in 2017 quoted Denis Arnaud as Global Offer Manager.

No headcount, revenue or management team is published for Veris on its own. The visible change in recent years is the narrowing of the catalogue: power and energy monitoring went first, between December 2024 and March 2025, and valves and network modules had also left the navigation by September 2026, when the home page listed sixteen sensor and control categories.