Hydrocomm were requested to specify and install a full communications package in a remote cottage that was to be used as an office during the build of four large hydro schemes. We were also requested to provide a large scale managed wireless network to cover the workers accommodation during this period. The site had no conventional phone line, no mobile phone signal, and no grid power.
Using the cottage as the main point of connection, we installed a high speed satellite data stream to provide the cottage office and management staff full high speed internet access – as well as our own SIP telephone access connections to network printers. This allowed the site managers to easily communicate with staff in their Czech office. We installed a second high speed satellite data stream to provide the eighty or so workers housed in porta-cabin type accommodation full high speed internet access. As all of the workers were a long way from home, this system had to be robust enough to keep up with the huge amount of data generated by workers calling home each evening using skype, face-time etc.
Once our equipment was deployed at this site, we were then able to manage this network remotely, allowing office staff unrestricted network access across the entire site, while preventing the standard users abusing the connection. With flags in place to alert us when any individual was monopolising the connection, we were able to quickly address this and restrict the access for these users even further.
Once the build was completed, we used one of these satellite systems and our recently installed fibre network to link all of the hydro power houses to the internet. Not only did this allow the client to view all of the schemes online, but it also allowed us to give the meter operators a connection to download the data from the MPAN meters on-site.
