Utilities

Critical Communications for a Smarter Grid.

Today’s utilities companies are expected to plan for and build smart energy grids that enhance our nation’s energy efficiency, independence and sustainability, as well as emergency response communications systems that ensure the rapid restoration of America’s critical infrastructure in emergencies. To do that, it’s imperative that reliable, secure and ubiquitous voice communications be in place.

The reality of that challenge is that you must oversee a communications network with multiple facilities spread over a wide geographic area. Throw in a mix of public and private networks, including trunked radio systems and PTT networks, thousands of mobile workers with radios and smartphones, and competition with consumer cellular traffic that can bump you from first-responder dedicated frequencies. That’s a lot to connect and manage when lives, property and profits are on the line. WAVE software helps you take a giant step forward while you solve for these issues and plan for the future.

The Reliability of RoIP

As an open platform that utilizes Radio-over-IP (RoIP), WAVE unifies diverse communications technologies into a standardized, interoperable communications network. Using IP as the common transport medium, WAVE bridges and unites radios and other devices regardless of technology, manufacturer, frequency or operator. WAVE goes anywhere, operates on industry standard hardware and supports limitless clients, including two-way radios, smartphones, desktop IP phones and PCs. 

Management Flexibility

WAVE also offers massive scalability to support rapid deployment across geographic or organizational boundaries. With almost no limits to the size of a WAVE-enabled network, system managers can quickly configure WAVE to support any network type or user, enabling full communications interoperability across multicast, unicast and mixed-mode networks while keeping bandwidth requirements to a minimum.

Universal Push-to-Talk (PTT)

RoIP expands your ability to utilize PTT where it wasn’t possible before. WAVE brings PCs, office telephones, diverse handsets, paging systems and intercoms into the fold. A PC becomes a PTT endpoint. A lineman on a tree crew could use his radio to connect to a colleague’s PC to get directions or other clarifying information. Then he could connect with local agency’s field operator using a smartphone to coordinate public safety measures.

Transform Dispatch

The role of dispatch changes dramatically on a WAVE network, giving you an opportunity to lower operating costs. Reduce the number of hardware consoles or replace them entirely with WAVE Dispatch Communicator. This client application, installed on a PC, helps you move away from expensive proprietary networks while you utilize 2, 3 and 4G networks. Effectively, a utility could dispatch to thousands of people from a single PC, consolidating multiple systems into one console.

Cost-Effective Scalability

WAVE leverages your existing devices and infrastructure, including radio systems, minimizing the need to buy expensive new hardware. This reduces ongoing operating and maintenance costs while re-purposing existing equipment, and even connecting previously incompatible equipment and groups such as traditional trunk radios and hoot ‘n holler systems. WAVE can deliver connectivity, conferencing, recording and bridging at a fraction of the cost of proprietary systems.

Improve Latency, Plan for Change

WAVE allows you to achieve immediate performance improvements and then take time to improve and upgrade to new systems and standards. To address spectrum squeeze, you can introduce trunked radio systems, which WAVE easily integrates. Or you could reduce the number of dispatch systems and lower your recurring operational costs while you plan for cost-effective, enterprise-wise IP migration.