Case Study
SWG Grenchen Building an intelligent foundation for improving power, water and gas utility services
Communication Networks Reference SWG Grenchen Building an intelligent foundation for improving power, water and gas utility services Challenges - Extend communications to the 80% of distribution substations without fiber and connect them to existing fiber IP core network - Creating a field area network for backhaul of Automated Meter Reading (AMR) for power, water and gas meters across utility’s coverage area - Scalability to leverage single communications network for multiple utility applications - Cost effective and timely deployment of network Solution - Single high capacity, reliable wireless broadband mesh field area network capable of concurrently supporting AMR in addition to future utility applications - IP-based wireless network easily integrates wit