Replacing Radio System – Case Study
By replacing our client’s licensed radio system, their new system became more secure, reliable, and FCC compliant.
Avon Lake Regional water authority in Ohio, rated at 50 MGD (millions of gallons per day), had a licensed radio system that was out of date and out of compliance. To replace the existing system–which was unencrypted and on an FCC published radio frequency–would have required several months and a high cost.
As many municipalities know, radios are not without issues and they require maintenance over their life. Adding new radios to an existing system as it expands, especially at sites with a tower associated, can be very expensive. This cost that would have been incurred by updating the existing radio system can instead pay for a cellular plan for many years, which also provides more reliable and secure communications.
The city decided to go with Data-Command’s private cellular network with end-to-end packet encryption for their monitoring and controls. As a result, the system was less expensive, quicker to change over, and more secure than the proposed system by a local radio company.
