Utilities are evolving rapidly and face extraordinary challenges, with reliability and an aging infrastructure among the most serious. To overcome these and other challenges, automation of field workers, receiving real-time information, and utilizing advanced communications are crucial. The technologies to enable real-time information include a wireless infrastructure for both fixed and mobile data. Fixed and Mobile Data On One InfrastructureGE MDS industrial wireless networks are capable of supporting multiple services on one infrastructure. One GE MDS access point, for example, can simultaneously support SCADA polling from a fixed location as well as e-mail traffic from a service vehicle. A GE MDS IP network allows the co-existence of multiple services and users on a single, shared infrastructure. GE MDS wireless networks handle serial and IP traffic, high speed and low speed links; licensed and unlicensed radio bands; private and public infrastructure; data and high-speed applications including images and video. All GE MDS components can be managed from a central location or from multiple distributed locations, and with centrally defined and maintained security policies. Field Force AutomationIn the face of deregulation, many companies are consolidating dispatch centers and field forces. This means they need to get work orders to the field as quickly as possible and track developments, particularly during an outage or other critical situation. Utilities also want to track their vehicles to ensure the most cost-effective routing is used. SCADAGE MDS provides radio modems to water/wastewater entities worldwide. Applications include monitoring and controlling vital water flows, and sending data from and control signals to, pipes, valves and pumps.
Remote Video MonitoringNow more than ever the ability to watch and record the activity happening in a remote environment is critical. Organizations must improve their security to protect critical infrastructure and as a result are installing new or upgraded security and/or surveillance systems.
Using GE MDS Solutions for Water/Wastewater Automation |
