The Ohio leg of a multi-year municipal water utility communications program, subcontracted through EG Controls as the controls integrator.
Drone-assisted survey with thermal imaging, and Wi-Fi and cellular coverage assessment, across 32 sites strung along the Ohio River. Coverage was measured at each site rather than inferred from a regional map, because a carrier’s own coverage map is drawn for a phone held by a person standing outdoors, not for a gateway inside a concrete pump house.
What came out of it was implementation-ready rather than advisory: specific gateways, specific carriers, specific antennas and industrial Ethernet, named down to the part. An assessment that stops at “improve connectivity” hands the client the hard half of the problem back.
Remote water and wastewater sites are the hardest communications problem in utilities. No fiber, marginal cellular, and a control system that has to report anyway.
Outcome
An implementation-ready design package — gateways, carriers, antennas and industrial Ethernet named down to the part.
Interactive 3D signal view
Modeled coverage drawn over LiDAR terrain, roof shapes and tree crowns, with the EDX SignalPro result on the ground. Needs a browser with WebGL; best on a desktop.