Broadband Smart Grids
Facilities that provide energy resources such as oil and gas rigs, electric utilities, renewable energy installations and water sources are usually located in remote areas. Their distribution grids are stretched out for thousands of kilometers across land and sea with limited, if any, monitoring or control capabilities. Experience shows that a small number of low bit-rate communication elements for monitoring are not enough, so the next step is to add a larger number of advanced elements, like sensors and cameras, creating the Broadband Smart Grid.
The Mobilicom MC-1000 system enables and increases Smart Grid real-time monitoring and control which improves their operation and reliability, decreases failures, greatly reduces material costs and increases efficiency and safety. Each node has greater capacity for video, data and sensor transmission, with bi-directional broadband communication capability which makes real-time supervision of these valuable facilities much easier and cost effective. The instant and ad-hoc features of the system provide continuous network coverage even in remote areas along the grid.
BROADBAND Capabilities – Mobilicom offers an advanced solution based on the 4G LTE wireless network. Faster broadband connections allow for a larger number of advanced control and monitoring elements, like sensors and cameras, providing better performance and improvement to grid control. In addition, broadband uplink transmission enables remote security and surveillance with real-time response from the operations center, even if it is far away. As energy installations become more valuable to populations, careful monitoring of these sites becomes necessary with faster broadband transmission.
AD-HOC/MESH Capabilities – In a remote area, regular star-topology communications networks are limited and can go down due to single point of failure. Mobilicom’s ad-hoc configuration with inherent relay capability ensures a stable connection, flexibility and redundancy, reducing network downtime and potential damage to the facility or grid. The mesh architecture sustains communications strength by breaking long distances into a series of shorter signal hops, ideal for stretched out grids. Mobilicom's ad-hoc/mesh feature is self forming, self-managed and self healing, improving performance and reducing costs.
MOBILE Capabilities – In remote facilities, mobile units and vehicles are often used in day-to-day operation. Enabling 4G communications between these vehicles and units improves their performance, whether they are on the ground, in the air or at sea. Mobile vehicles can collect information as well from elements and sensors along the grid with Mobilicom’s ad-hoc mobile communications system, making it an ideal solution for monitoring stretched out distribution grids.
INSTANT Capabilities – Remote areas usually do not have the infrastructure needed for even basic communications. Regular infrastructure planning and deployment, especially in remote areas, is also very costly. The MC-1000 system provides an instant state-of-the-art network where communications infrastructure does not exist, saving CAPEX/OPEX costs.
The Mobilicom Advantage:
Cost effective broadband and ad-hoc/mesh wireless communications anywhere on the grid
Advanced broadband mobile technology offered by Mobilicom introduces video, data and voice transmission to remote locations, providing those who monitor grid facilities faster response time. The ad-hoc/mesh feature gives the grid communications system both flexibility and redundancy, insuring critical installations remain secure. In addition to improved communications, the potential savings when using Mobilicom’s system as opposed to an infrastructure based network is enormous.