New 28 Site Motorola Digital Trunked System - Gladstone Qld
Posted: Thu Feb 10, 2011 6:19 pm
QUEENSLAND Gas Corporation has opted for a digital radio network from Motorola Solutions for its liquefied natural gas project.
The $14.4 million deal will see Motorola Solutions build a 28 site radio network to service the LNG project which includes development and exploration of coal seam gas reserves in southern and central Queensland and the construction of a 540km underground pipeline to carry the gas to a plant near Gladstone for liquefaction.
"The area QGC covers is a huge area and there’s radio at all points in the supply chain," said Motorola Solutions managing director Gary Starr.
The deal includes a microwave system to link the plants; a TETRA radio system with a base station at each of the central processing plants, the field compression stations and the main line valve stations; and TETRA systems for the company's corporate office in Brisbane, the Chinchilla office, and the Chinchilla logistics facility.
More than 3000 radios will be supplied with many of them certified ‘intrinsically safe’ for use around the potentially explosive gas.
"A radio can give off an electrical pulse so these units are designed to be safe in this sort of environment," said Mr Starr.
Motorola Solutions is the enterprise mobility and radio network chunk of the recently split Motorola. It began trading as a separate entity in January this year. Mr Starr said his side of the former Motorola constituted more than 50 percent of revenue in Australia. Locally, there are over 300 employees. The other piece, Motorola Mobility is mainly concerned with manufacturing smartphones and other telephony devices.
Radio networks are undergoing a generational change from analog to digital technology and Mr Starr said that while about only 30 percent of the local installed base was digital, about 90 percent of new equipment sales were digital
The $14.4 million deal will see Motorola Solutions build a 28 site radio network to service the LNG project which includes development and exploration of coal seam gas reserves in southern and central Queensland and the construction of a 540km underground pipeline to carry the gas to a plant near Gladstone for liquefaction.
"The area QGC covers is a huge area and there’s radio at all points in the supply chain," said Motorola Solutions managing director Gary Starr.
The deal includes a microwave system to link the plants; a TETRA radio system with a base station at each of the central processing plants, the field compression stations and the main line valve stations; and TETRA systems for the company's corporate office in Brisbane, the Chinchilla office, and the Chinchilla logistics facility.
More than 3000 radios will be supplied with many of them certified ‘intrinsically safe’ for use around the potentially explosive gas.
"A radio can give off an electrical pulse so these units are designed to be safe in this sort of environment," said Mr Starr.
Motorola Solutions is the enterprise mobility and radio network chunk of the recently split Motorola. It began trading as a separate entity in January this year. Mr Starr said his side of the former Motorola constituted more than 50 percent of revenue in Australia. Locally, there are over 300 employees. The other piece, Motorola Mobility is mainly concerned with manufacturing smartphones and other telephony devices.
Radio networks are undergoing a generational change from analog to digital technology and Mr Starr said that while about only 30 percent of the local installed base was digital, about 90 percent of new equipment sales were digital