Alvarion's CCTV transmission system assists Parchim utility provider in wireless surveillance

About Stadtwerke Parchim

Stadtwerke Parchim is the sole utilities provider for the German town of Parchim. They deliver electricity, gas, hot water and water treatment services to the town's 40,000 residents, 40% of which they manufacture themselves.

About Loft-Net

Loft-Net is a local systems integrator in Northern Germany, focused on providing the full suite of services for wireless broadband in rural areas. Loft-Net is also a certified partner of world leading Mobotix video surveillance solutions. They currently supply wireless Internet services to eight local municipalities and are expanding quickly.

The challenge

In order to provide utility services to the entire city of Parchim, Stadwerke has located electricity substations, as well as administrative offices and premises throughout the city. These facilities must be monitored at all times to ensure smooth operations. Stadwerke also wanted the various substations and premises to be connected through a network to support data communications and video monitoring of all substations continuously. Because the town is situated in the northern region of Germany, its facilities are often disturbed by harsh weather conditions and subsequent technical difficulties such as damaged underground cabling that can interrupt communications. These problems must be solved as quickly as possible for Stadwerke to maintain its high level of service.

The solution

After checking other vendor alternatives, Stadwerke opted for the Alvarion portfolio due to the solution's simple configuration, robustness and the attractive pay-as-you-grow business model. The solution, deployed by system integrator Loft-Net, consisted of Alvarion's BreezeACCESS VL carrier-class, point-to-multipoint solution for wireless broadband outdoor connectivity. The BreezeACCESS VL wireless base station provides 240 Mbps bandwidth and features Non-Line-of-Sight (NLOS) capabilities. Teamed with BreezeNET B wireless bridges that provide a powerful and cost-effective wireless link to backhaul the point-to-multipoint network to the Internet, they set up a city-wide network that can be accessed instantly.

The result

With the Alvarion solution in place, Stadwerke Parchim are able to monitor their network of utilities substations at all times and in any weather conditions. They are able to troubleshoot damages quickly and effectively to deliver utilities with maximum up-time to the people of Parchim