Dunedin City Council, New Zealand

The council needed an upgrade of the water and waste telemetry system in the Dunedin region to improve the systems reliability. The old equipment had become difficult to replace, making the system vulnerable if equipment failed.

If multiplexers failed, access was prevented to both the waste and water telemetry systems. The water management system measures river and bore intakes, pipe flow, reservoir levels, pumping stations and treatment plants’ quality data. This water quality is measured, and must meet the Ministry of Health (MOH) standards at all times. To meet these high standards, and those of the Otago Regional Council, the DCC must comply with resource consents which govern the quantity of water taken from rivers and bores.

The TB7100 base station is the ideal solution for telemetry services because it has high speed data rates up to 19.2kbps (wideband) and 12kbps (narrowband). It can be configured as a data repeater or RF modem, and is fully compatible with the Tait TM8000 range of mobile radio equipment.