London Hydro owns, operates and maintains a 2609 kilometer network of overhead and underground power lines. BelAir Networks reseller, Capella Telecommunications, is supplying network design, installation and integration support for the smart meter wireless wide area network (WAN) deployment.
Vinay Sharma, CEO of London Hydro, said: “London Hydro’s smart meter initiatives represent an investment in our business, our community and the environment, so the wireless WAN needs to manage the AMI traffic loads effectively while giving us the ability to support other applications on the same network. BelAir Networks gives us the performance, security, reliability and scalability to address current and future requirements.”
The London Hydro smart meter WAN design is based on BelAir Networks BelAir200 wireless nodes, each configured with four backhaul radios. Nodes interconnect via multiple point to point and point to multipoint connections to create a resilient wireless WAN. BelAir Networks patented switched architecture delivers high-capacity as well as the low latency critical to control and management applications.
