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NetComm M2M technology chosen for Victorian sewerage system

IT Industry - Deals

South East Water, one of Melbourne's three water retailers owned by the Victorian Government, has selected NetComm to supply HSPA machine-to-machine (M2M) routers for the remote monitoring and control of sewerage pumps in an area from the south east of Melbourne to South Gippsland.

South East Water has a program to connect households presently using septic tanks into the sewerage system and will use the NetComm routers to deliver data from the new sewerage pumps back to a central supervisory control and data acquisition (SCADA) host system over the Internet using 3G connectivity. Deployment started earlier this month.

According to NetComm, its routers support multi-level system monitoring and can be managed from a computer or smart phone via a web interface. "Multiple communication interfaces and protocols are supported to meet the demands of today's telemetry and WAN applications; and the embedded Linux operating system and available software development kit (SDK) enables the installation of custom firmware," the company said.

Last month NetComm was awarded a contract for HSPA modem WiFi routers for the NSW Government's $1.2b electronic ticketing system for public transport.

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