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Wyoming City Deploys IPWireless Broadband for City Services (3/9/10)
The city of Gillette, Wyo., is deploying a citywide high-speed, wireless network for police, utilities, public works and engineering departments using IPWireless broadband solutions. The multiagency wireless network provides municipal departments with a single integrated network that enhances public safety and improves citywide data communications, while lowering overall communications costs.
Gillette's Police Department and utilities departments have been trialing a pilot network of two sites since November 2009. Based on the results of the pilot, the city is expanding the wireless network to six sites covering more than 40 square miles and will support more than a half dozen municipal agencies. Gillette is deploying the network in conjunction with VC3, an IT consultancy.
The end-to-end network includes IPWireless Third-Generation Partnership Project (3GPP)-based network infrastructure, chipsets and end user device, and uses the same technology that is being used in the New York City Wireless Network (NYCWiN). The network includes real-time service prioritization and pre-emption and is software upgradeable to Long Term Evolution (LTE).
Gillette's city workers are equipped with mobile computers to take advantage of the network, including access to centralized databases, e-mail, mapping, building plans and images. For example, the city's utilities department can use supervisory control and data acquisition (SCADA) devices to wirelessly monitor water pumping stations, water wells and tanks, wastewater lift stations and treatment plant, and electrical substations, compressor banks and revenue metering for improved city planning and maintenance.
"Performance results from the IPWireless solution during the past four months have exceeded our expectations, and we anticipate that the new network will pay for itself through savings from vehicle maintenance, improved productivity gains and fuel costs alone," said Pamela L. Boger, administrative services director.
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