Laois County Council awards SCADA network extension to EMR

Laois County Council awards SCADA network extension to EMR

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Leading communications and SCADA network supplier, EMR Integrated Solutions today secured a major SCADA network expansion contract with Laois County Council to provide real-time monitoring and control of more than 50 critical infrastructure sites throughout the county.

Installation of the new sites will be completed within three months and bring investment in the network to date to over €500,000.

Under the terms of the deal, EMR will install PLCs, HMIs and radio communications together with an upgrade of the electrical control systems at some sites.

The contract follows the successful completion of the Stage I of the Water Conservation SCADA system for Laois County Council in 2012.

These sites will now be monitored and controlled from the Laois County Council’s SCADA system, delivering information to managers and field personnel using EMR’s cloud-hosted SCADA servers and brings the number of sites on the system to over 200.

 

EMR Integrated Solutions was today awarded contracts by Coffey Water for the supply and implementation of SCADA and telemetry systems on two major projects in Kilmallock, Co Limerick and Oldcastle, Co. Meath.

Major SCADA and telemetry contract awarded to EMR

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Leading communications and SCADA network supplier, EMR Integrated Solutions was today awarded contracts by Coffey Water for the supply and implementation of SCADA and telemetry systems on two major projects being undertaken at the Coffey Water DBO water treatment works in Kilmallock, Co Limerick and Meath County Council’s water treatment works in Oldcastle, Co. Meath.

EMR’s engineers will be undertaking the plant automation using Schneider PLC and automation hardware and Inductive Automation’s Ignition SCADA software.

In the case of the Oldcastle project, EMR will also integrate the new plant information with central SCADA servers installed previously by EMR in Meath County Council’s IT server facility.

Leading communications and SCADA network supplier, EMR Integrated Solutions was today recognised with 'Distinction' at the 2013 annual National Irish Safety Organisation (NISO) awards.

EMR recognised with ‘Distinction’ at NISO awards

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Leading communications and SCADA network supplier, EMR Integrated Solutions was today recognised with ‘Distinction’ at the 2013 annual National Irish Safety Organisation (NISO) awards.

The award recognises the positive and proactive culture of safety management that exists within EMR’s business and is testament to the quality of the process and the high regard that the awards command.

EMR’s safety representative, Brian Morgan also received a commendation certificate from NISO for his contribution to health and safety at EMR.

Commenting on the win, Mark Quinn, managing director with EMR Integrated Solutions said:

“Best practice health and safety is critical to EMR’s reputation, and is at the forefront of all its business activity, as is evident in EMR’s participation in the NISO Awards.  This distinction award is testament to EMR’s continuous improvements to industry best practices and  reflects its commitment to ensuring compliance to regulations and providing a safe environment for its employees and clients at all times.”

The annual National Irish Safety Organisation (NISO) Safety Awards are Ireland’s premier safety awards. The awards are an All-Ireland affair as they are awarded in conjunction with Northern Ireland Safety Group (NISG).

EMR Integrated Solutions today announced it has been awarded a framework contract from O2 Telefónica Ireland for in-building wireless solutions

O2 awards in-building Wi-Fi framework contract to EMR

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Leading communications and SCADA network supplier, EMR Integrated Solutions today announced it has been awarded a framework contract from O2 Telefónica Ireland for in-building wireless solutions for a specific business sector within the company.

This project will result in numerous installations country wide with a service level agreement associated with each deployment.

The contract is expected to run for 3 years.

NIW Telemetry Upgrade Pic l-r: Mark Quinn, managing director, EMR Integrated Solutions, Derek Glynn, COO, EMR Integrated Solutions and Pearse Bradley, telemetry and SCADA manager, Northern Ireland Water on the award of a €1m/£700,000 contract to upgrade Northern Ireland Water's telemetry network. No fees for reproduction.

EMR announces completion of major Northern Ireland Water contract

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Leading communications and SCADA network supplier, EMR Integrated Solutions today announced it has completed the system handover of Northern Ireland Water’s new Digital Polling Radio Telemetry Network.

Working closely with Northern Ireland Water personnel, EMR’s installation team completed the project ahead of schedule marking the successful handover of this €1.8 million project.

The implementation of the new network, undertaken by EMR over the previous 12 months, involved the change over of almost 2,000 aging analogue radios throughout the province using 4RF’s Aprisa SR Digital Polling Radio.

The major challenge came from the requirement to carry out the work on the live network without service interruption.

Northern Ireland Water personnel have already begun a programme to significantly expand the network in the coming year.

 

EMR was today voted by its customers as a winner of the prestigious 'Exceptional Service' category at the annual Irish Field Service Awards.

EMR takes ‘Exceptional Service’ accolade at IFSA

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EMR Integrated Solutions, a leading provider of communications solutions and SCADA networks was today voted by its customers as a winner of the prestigious ‘Exceptional Service’ category at the annual Irish Field Service Awards.

The award recognises the company’s consistently high standards in both operational and field service excellence.

The company was also nominated in a further three categories, including ‘Best Health & Safety Implementation’, ‘Best International Service Provision’ and ‘Exceptional Service’ as voted by a client.

Commenting on the win, Brian McIvor, services manager with Eircom NI said:

“EMR go beyond the agreed SLA framework and have become a key partner to eircomNI ….we look forward to continue to expand the service offering from EMR.”

EMR offers customisable Service Level Agreements which are designed to provide its clients with the highest level of service and support. EMR provides consistent support with the objective of ensuring that optimum availability and performance of client critical solutions are achieved.

EMR’s SLA offering provides Technical Service Desk, Problem Management, Escalation Procedures, Service Review Meetings, Service Level Performance and KPI Reporting which establish EMR’s obligations as a key provider of support services to its clients.

EMR Integrated Solutions today announced a contract from RTÉ NL to redesign and relocate the microwave and multiplex backbone network for 2RN

RTÉ NL awards relocation contract to EMR

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Leading communications and SCADA network supplier, EMR Integrated Solutions today announced a contract from RTÉ NL to redesign and relocate the microwave and multiplex backbone network for 2RN as part of the their move from RTE Donnybrook to Cookstown, Dublin 24.

The award follows a competitive tendering process.

The project will require a live switch over of existing services from the legacy network to the new relocated network and will take approximately four months to complete.

EMR Integrated Solutions today announced a contract with Kildare County Council for its River Barrow Abstraction Pipeline.

Kildare County Council chooses EMR for major SCADA project

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Leading communications and SCADA network supplier, EMR Integrated Solutions today announced a contract with Kildare County Council for its River Barrow Abstraction Pipeline.

Under the terms of the deal,  EMR will install the monitoring and control system for the new trunk main linking the new water treatment works at Srowland to the existing reservoirs at Ardscull and Old Kilcullan.

The system will provide automated pressure control and emergency shutdown in the event of a burst and all system information will be available to management and operators through the central server software.

The contract calls for the installation of communications and control equipment together with the central SCADA system to monitor and control the 15km pipeline through a network of 15 actuated valve and metering sites.

The project is expected to be completed within 6 months.

Leading communications and SCADA network supplier, EMR Integrated Solutions today announced it has been awarded a multi-million euro microwave network contract by Eircom NI.

EMR awarded multi-million euro contract by Eircom NI

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Leading communications and SCADA network supplier, EMR Integrated Solutions today announced it has been awarded a multi-million euro contract by Eircom NI.

Under the terms of the deal, EMR will deliver a managed service microwave radio network, which will form an integral part of Eircom NI’s infrastructure to deliver unified communications services to key business customer in Northern Ireland.

The rollout is expected to take 18 months.

EMR Integrated Solutions today announced it has completed the design and installation of a wide area, wireless communications network for the Law Library.

Law Library chooses EMR to deploy mission-critical microwave communications network

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Leading communications and network services provider, EMR Integrated Solutions today announced it has completed the design and installation of a wide area, wireless communications network for the Law Library.  The network includes three high speed microwave links with two of the links running at 155Mbits and the third offering 1Gbit capacity.

The network allows all users of the law library to access the custom-designed information portal which provides access to over 130,000 items, using Web 2.0 technologies.

The Gigabit radio link operates in the 70GHz to 80GHz licensed band and is specifically designed to operate at very high speeds over short distances. The 155Mbits links operate in the traditional 6-38 GHz licensed bands. All the radios links supplied are licensed radios units approved for use by the Irish Communications Regulator (ComReg).

Commenting on the new network, Michael Lynch of the Law Library said:

“EMR have demonstrated a comprehensive knowledge of the detailed requirements of our unique application. The installed solution allows our members to operate very efficiently, they have high praise for the system speed and increase reliability. As IT mangers we can monitor the performance of the network on a real time basis which means we can proactively attend to issues as they occur. EMR deserve high praise indeed for delivering exactly what we wanted on time and to budget.”

The Law Library provides a library and information service to the members of the Law Library. It is the central physical point of access to a modern, court-going library service. The collection of resources comprises legal textbooks, journals, legislation and case law. The service also manages access to a variety of commercial and in-house electronic databases.