At North River Disaster Site, North American Provides Crucial Communications
New York City, Aug. 1, 2011 – As the only company trusted enough to provide immediate radio communications to the North River Waste Treatment Plant emergency site, North American provided necessary communications coverage within 24 hours of initial inspection. Covering the massive steel and concrete facility with an improvised distributed antenna system (DAS), The North American Group was able to incorporate the remnants of the plants previous, but damaged, outdated and unmapped while providing new equipment as needed.
The new DAS system installed by The North American Group will is advanced enough to be part of a continual upgrade process, despite its emergency origins, where the Department of Environmental Protection updates the communications capabilities of all the city’s waste treatment plants.
North American’s engineers and technicians worked tirelessly throughout the day and in partnership with Piercom Solutions LLC and Motorola Solutions, Inc to provide the communications required to stop the ecological disaster.
As one of the largest two-way radio facility in New York City, North American was able to call upon its existing inventory of radio equipment and coaxial cable to quickly provide and install all required components.
The North River DEP facility, site encompasses 28 acres of land and houses floor space several times that size. Challenges faced on this site, include but are not limited to the hostile environment, inaccessible floors due to “dirty water,” and a floor plan dominated by large open areas encased in reinforced concrete walls several feet thick.
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