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The transverse profile of the circulating beam of the CERN PS is obtained from the interaction between the particles and a thin wire rapidly moving through it. The signal from a secondary particles monitor or the secondary emission current of the wire is sampled against the wire position every four beam revolutions in the machine. A stand-alone desk compu ter performs the real-time control of the wire displa cement as well as the acguisitions and calculations necessary to display the profiles and the corres ponding emittances. A traversing speed of 20 m/s in the measurement area is reached, using a high torque motor rigidly linked to a U shaped wire holder. All elements are carefully designed and chosen for low inertia and minimum load on the wire. This enables measurements of high energy beams of more than 1013 p/p in the PS with negligible emittance blow-up due to multiple scattering. This blow-up is still acceptable at injection energy. A link to the PS main computer allows operation from any one of the main consoles.

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