Satellite and Wireless Information

Do you have an application that requires remote monitoring or even remote control? When you consider all the different telemetry methods that one may call upon, things can get very complicated. To determine what is right for your application you should consider wire-line carriers, cellular, CDPD, PCS, paging, MAS, spread spectrum, microwave, narrow band PCS, conventional data, trunking, and so on. At Crystalline Technology we can help you evaluate the technologies and decide what is right for your application.

The principal of Crystalline Technology recently managed a project at El Paso Field Services where he was responsible for automation of over 7,000 gas wells in four states. This project had very tight economics that forced the development of a very low cost infrastructure that was reliable and could be maintained with existing manpower.

The country covered by El Paso is quite diverse and ranges from the plains of the Texas Panhandle to the spectacular mountains of south west Colorado, to the rugged canyons of northwest New Mexico. The diverse country that was involved required careful design to determine the optimum solution. Extensive computer modeling along with site visits were performed to determine the best locations for the towers that would become the critical links. We licensed some 32 sites for use as MAS (Multiple Address Systems) radio masters and constructed the most efficient communication network known in the industry.

We provide low cost, efficient systems that can service both Intranet and Internet users. We support multiple protocols with varying vendors on a common communications network. In addition Crystalline Technology has a tower on Knickerbocker Mountain that space may be leased on. Call us for more information about our available tower space.

The towers constructed range from small 20 foot structures on top of a mountain to general purpose 200 foot towers located in critical locations serving many needs.

We have many innovative methods of transporting data back from the towers to the SCADA center including microwave, spread spectrum, wire-line, repeaters, trunking radios, CDPD, and Internet wormholes. It doesn't matter if you are 75 miles from the nearest facility in west Texas or next to a major city, implementing the most reliable and least costly communications will make the difference between a project that works well and one that is an economic failure.

New technologies such as narrow band PCS, microburst, satellite, and two way paging are now emerging to provide some very interesting possibilities for low cost data transport from remote sites. It is a very exciting time in the communications field and we will help you sort out "hype from function".