IT and Telecommunications

Pell Frischmann are currently procuring a Urban Traffic Control system for a small town with a limited number of traffic signal sites which are reasonably closely associated. A key element associated with such procurement is that of the communications medium to be employed to support the transmission requirements of the system between each traffic signal site and the instation. These transmission paths must reflect a high degree of reliability and performance and equally be economic to operate and maintain. The M4.5522 Mesh4G™ 5GHz radio operates in the 5.4GHz and 5.8GHz frequency bands. This, with its dual antennas, allows 68 combinations of polarity and frequencies allowing interference free deployment. Mesh Node latency of 1ms,ability to operate anywhere in a standard configuration can provide throughput up to 30Mbps over distances up to 15km. read more

The scheme covers a private finance initiative cover the upgrade and management of street lighting and traffic signal assets over a 5 year build period and a further 20 year maintenance period where equipment installed has to have a 5 year minimum residual life expectancy at the end of the contract. There are in excess of 18000 street lights all of which will be linked individually by radio to a central instation remote monitoring system. This system will provide the ability to switch on and dim street lights as required. The system will facilitate the street lights to automatically report faults to the instation with the resultant improvements in efficiency. The traffic signal controllers to be deployed during the construction phase have the ability to assess traffic volumes which when fed back to the instation and common database will enable via the RMS system the further dimming of street lights at prescribed times when traffic volumes have fallen. The exception to this would be tha read more

A 10 year contract to work with the University of Edinburgh to integrate telephony, data, and video into one campus-wide network. The campus consisted of 23 outlying buildings servicing 5,500 students. EdNet-FV is a new residential network that provides an “always on” network connection offering Internet and email, with access to the University of Edinburgh network (Edlan). New measures include: Wireless connectivity, VOIP integration, the possibility of IPTV, adding to the connection method - currently janet (joint academic network), which supplies high bandwidth to external networks, such as the internet. The key advantage of this system is that it becomes cost effective to add commercial guests. read more