The company is currently building a six-storey primary school in Melbourne, with the construction site located close to the Royal Melbourne Hospital. Due to the proximity of the construction site to the hospital, the large cranes needed are a potential hazard to the air ambulance. As such when the air ambulance is operational the cranes need to lower to a safe height so not to interfere with the flight path.
The air show takes place every two years, and is attended by up to 200,000 people, with three full days of industry and military attendance only, followed by three days of public attendance. Simoco Wireless Solutions has been providing the communications infrastructure for the Avalon Air Show since 2013, having initially won the work through a public tender process.
Utility companies around the world are facing more demands than ever. As energy resources continue to diversify to include a range of traditional and renewable technologies, there is also a need to manage this widening portfolio in a smarter, leaner and more efficient way. Increasingly companies that are striving to deliver the dream of smart grid technologies are finding that they are faced with major communications challenges when it comes to providing the information and control required for insight into grid performance and issues when outages occur.
Simoco Wireless Solutions, along with partner Bay Electronics, Inc. has supplied an IP-based Simulcast System for the emergency services throughout Door County in Wisconsin, USA, as part of efforts to improve the region’s communications network under updated government regulations. Door County were looking to upgrade its existing multicast system after one of its fire departments secured a grant to address the reduced quality of coverage and paging as a result of the FCC narrowband mandate enforcement.
The two-year contract, which has an option to extend for a further two years, is to maintain the Radio Tunnel Public Address System in the Blackwall, East India Dock Link, Fore Street, George Green, Green Man and Limehouse Link tunnels.
