The infrastructure that water and wastewater facilities have relied on to minimize flooding, contamination, and other adverse consequences is becoming exceedingly difficult to properly maintain. Budget constraints have impeded many water utilities ability to measure the environmental harm caused by excessive rainfall. Wired and wireless IoT sensors provide… Read more…
In today’s world, Public LTE and Wi-Fi networks are a necessity. For many individuals and organizations, wireless services have become a “fourth utility” – a resource as critical as power, water, and gas. In spite of this, a few scenarios exist where the use of public LTE and Wi-Fi networks is not a viable option – leaving PLTE as the only solution. Read more…
Recently, the FCC has mandated that major providers of copper POTS lines should sunset maintenance and support for devices and services that depend upon them beginning in August 2022. While there are many reasons for this, the primary issues are the high costs of laying new and maintaining existing lines. Costs that are… Read more…
Most water and wastewater utilities continuously rely upon supervisory control and data acquisition systems to support the demanding requirements of their operations in a variety of applications. The right hardware allows SCADA systems to run seamlessly – connecting central operations to remote assets and enhancing visibility, productivity, and… Read more…
Energy exploration operations require organizations to set-up fixed sites across diverse geographies. For oil and gas businesses, it requires they extract resources from geological formations wherever they are discovered on a global scale. When it comes to monitoring these sites, often located in exceedingly remote areas… Read more…
Whether public or privately owned and operated, utilities are working to guard our nations critical infrastructure from threats – physical and digital. With the ideal security systems in place, these organizations can accomplish both. Urban and remote water treatment sites, power plants, oil refineries, and… Read more…
Kyle is a Senior Operations Engineer for a large regional electric utility. Kyle has been tasked with leveraging 5G to improve utility operational efficiency, safety and security. Additionally, it falls to him to implement new network technologies that will speed up the integration of sources of renewable energy into… Read more…
Harold is the Vice President of Engineering for a rural electric utility cooperative. Harold wants to increase the responsiveness, safety and efficiency of their bucket trucks and other mobile assets. Moreover, those who lead the organization want a solution that will enable their vehicles to… Read more…
Marcus is the technology manager for a large mining corporation. The corporation is continually looking for ways to improve mining safety, increase efficiency and raise productivity. Recently he’s been investigating the benefits of using private networks and 5G hardware to ensure the continued success and expansion of their… Read more…
Organizations across every utility vertical including energy, oil, gas, water, waste, and more deploy field vehicles and personnel across towns, cities, counties, states, and entire regions in order to deliver vital services to clients. The managers who deploy them, and the teams they deploy, need to get and stay connected… Read more…
