Facilities need to run at optimum capacity. Lost production time and associated costs cannot be recovered and there is no spare capacity in which to make those missing units. Each manufacturing step is dependent on the next. Every point in the chain needs to be constantly monitored, serviced, and supplied.
The communication between the robots, the production plant machinery and the staff operate at a pre-emptive level; information flow is fundamental to the operation of a site. Managing ongoing maintenance and routine supplies prevents issues from escalating and eliminates any loss in production.
Through the deployment of IoT technology, bespoke alerts can be built into your communication system to match your exact needs. These can be to raise an alert to dispatch the nearest available worker, to manage the feeding supplies to the robots (such as welding wire or oil), answering an alert for overheating or dealing with planned preventative maintenance.
To provide further value, there is an escalation process should a call or alert remain unanswered. The management team automatically receive the first level of alert and further alerts will be generated to the next group of personnel in the chain and so on. This process provides valuable management information and ensures that the call has been responded to resulting in the effective management of staff and resources on site to minimise down time and reduce costs.
The same integrated communications system should be a functional part of all alarm systems. For example, the radio communications system combined with telemetry will speed up the response to a fire alarm.
Entropia apply their extensive digital communication experience to design in-door coverage systems to meet the specific needs of their customers.
In certain situations, additional signal power is essential. For example, if your employees work surrounded by industrial infrastructure or in an underground space, the thick building materials (usually concrete or steel walls) can act as a barrier and block the signal. This will almost definitely delay communications and in some instances, prevent the user from transmitting and receiving information completely.
Entropia’s TETRA system of 400+ masts cover an area of over 72.000+ Km2 on shore across Flanders, Brussels and nationwide across the Netherlands, with 15.000+ Km2 of Belgium coastal & offshore coverage. Our systems is designed for mission critical applications, offering excellent coverage and availability with a wide range of user features and compatibility with leading manufacturer high-grade subscriber terminals.
Entropia helps manufacturing facilities to connect to their sensors, IT equipment and personnel worldwide via the best broadband networks at a low cost. Entropia's broadband critical for personnel gives an open channel of encrypted communication; a tool for safety and managing processes. Entropia offers the greatest range of functions over the broadest number of platforms for the widest geographical spread, including hybrid connectivity with Entropia TETRA.
Entropia can design the ultimate unified solution for your entire facility to include beacon technology to track the exact location of employees. When a manufacturing asset needs attention, the communication network identifies an operative who can deal with the incident.
This technology uses an automated messaging system through the wireless communications network on site.
To safeguard personnel most at risk, they must be equipped with a robust system, with instant emergency features. Guaranteeing the immediate flow of data, your team can identify risks before they turn into situations and respond to incidents quickly to keep personnel safe.
Real time (IoT) Internet of Things and (M2M) Machine to Machine wireless technology monitoring capabilities enable you to make better well-informed decisions, and to respond appropriately and speedily.
Our smart technology has been developed to deliver exactly what you need to keep your employees safe.
Entropia’s application can be used with TETRA two-way radios or smartphones, using hybrid TETRA / broadband networks. A dynamic and secure directory enables you to easily locate the correct person and view their credentials. It also allows you to identify who is active or inactive. All information is updated in real-time.
The Entropia Push-to-Talk service transforms your smartphone into a PTT walkie-talkie-style device, complete with its own “Push-to-Talk” button. Other benefits of the application include comprehensive location tracking, push-to-video and much more.
Applications are compatible with Entropia TETRA and Broadband networks. Also available are hybrid TETRA / LTE broadband devices that enable connectivity to both TETRA and LTE simultaneously. For more information take a look at our TETRA hardware and accessories section.
Capturing real time video footage puts you directly at the scene. It supplies live visual and audible data to optimise the safety of your front-line personnel and the public, provide essential evidence and increases response times.
Providing front-line personnel with the technology to capture and stream live footage from a body-warn video ensures that they always act as a team. With every member of your team aware of a situation, and to witness its events unfold at the same time, empowers them to work together for the optimal outcome.
The wearing of a body camera instils confidence. Knowing that the event is being accurately recorded enables the wearer on the front-line to focus and assess the situation.
Your ultimate location tracking solution powered by data. Coordinate your team, track your fleet and optimise your response to incidents with Entropia’s innovative Cloud based desktop application.
Keeping track of personnel and assets equips control room operators and key personnel with valuable information. It supports the smooth and efficient running of day to day operations and provides crucial data in an emergency when every second counts.
It’s no surprise that emergency services, and sectors such as transport logistics, use location technology to track their personnel and assets including vehicles, and incidents. Entropia understands the importance of this communication service and has combined its expertise and experience to develop groundbreaking technology and software to guarantee reliability no matter the location.
Entropia delivers the ultimate unified communications solution to better protect your workers. Deploy smart technology to fully support your front-line personnel and control room operators.
Our solutions have built in emergency features to safeguard your lone workers, no matter their location. The innovative system detects inactivity and raises an alarm to alert the relevant personnel. Should a worker fall when working alone, the system will trigger an alert as the device remains horizontal of exceeds a preset angle. In both instances, the control room operator will try to reach the individual using the two-way radio. If there is no response, an alarm will be raised for immediate action.
Entropia's solutions enable the secure flow of data across your entire organisation. It provides comprehensive management enabling your team to access forms and manage processes from any location, from any device.
Real time monitoring and tracking capabilities enable you to make better well-informed decisions, and to respond appropriately and speedily. Notifications and event alerts will provide you with critical data to keep you informed of your assets’ operations such as status, location, and energy consumption.
The ability to remotely monitor your assets empowers you to determine new business models and increases your opportunity to obtain a competitive edge. Deploying ComBus’ technology allows them to manage resources effectively, discover solutions to today’s problems, create new experiences and drive smarter operations.
Achieve deeper insights into your data traffic and get a simplified, actionable view with identification and reporting such as top data usage devices, data used per country, top applications or protocols used, and amount of data used by each application.
Our AAA servers are carrier grade and 3GPP compliant, providing security in the form of authentication with fraud prevention. Our IoT smart connectivity solutions use bi-directional authentication to ensure only authorised devices gain access with encryption to protect data.
Entropia guarantees high speed, flawless coverage no matter the users' location. From an office stairwell to an underground tunnel, our innovative in-building wireless technology has the power to keep everyone connected.
Entropia provides TETRA and Broadband two-way voice and data communication services. Entropia's ComBus & Combonet together provide a catalogue of cloud-based apps that connect people and key equipment together across all technologies and networks.
Mission critical is the essential communications service provision for blue light and pale blue light operations including police, fire, ambulance, security, and the utility sector. All these organisations have demanding communications requirements.
Mission critical delivers instant call setup and instant data messages, both with a greater than 99.999% call setup guarantee even if the carrier infrastructure is congested. This is our definition of mission critical, and a pledge we stand by.
To achieve this grade of service, the network operator must ensure absolute continuity of resources and connectivity for a pre-determined operation area. There cannot be any third-party resources that the network provider cannot fully control.
The TETRA infrastructure is totally owned, controlled, and managed by Entropia meaning that continuity of resource can be guaranteed. Entropia has over 30 years’ worth of experience in voice and data networks. TETRA remains the most popular choice for mission critical services across the world today.
Yes, however for this broadband service to be graded as Mission Critical the end-to-end service and infrastructure must be a private network with all the resources being controlled and managed by either Entropia or by the organisation using the service. There cannot be any third-party resources that the network provider cannot fully control.
No, we do not class it as mission critical, this is because we use partner networks in over 176 countries accessing 500+ tier 1 networks to provide connectivity.
Our provisions rely on our service partner networks to provide connectivity which grades the service as Business Grade. Business Grade communications still provides a high grade of service suitable for many organisations, but with less emphasis on protecting and saving lives.
Yes, ComBus’ catalogue of applications can be used on both grades of network. Only the network they operate on can determine if the use is mission critical or broadband critical. ComBus as such is always mission critical.