Arcadian Networks has deployed a private, secure wireless data communication network for utilities and other ‘dispersed-asset’ industries. Arcadian Networks will provide clients with access to broadband coverage in the 700 MHz range, enabling them to collect, monitor and respond to mission-critical data in real-time. Arcadian Networks service is available in 23 states.

As a wireless carrier, Arcadian Networks' licensed 700 MHz spectrum provides its clients operational capabilities via the company's broadband network. The company's offering is designed to reduce operational costs and increase productivity by enabling real-time monitoring, control of operations, field services and management applications.

Arcadian Networks' core solution provides a completely integrated wireless broadband network with equipment and licensed spectrum for operational and mission-critical applications such as supervisory control and data acquisition (SCADA), security surveillance, voice-over Internet protocol (VOIP), control area operations, automatic meter reading (AMR) and workforce management. The service allows utilities and dispersed assets industries to maintain their existing communication infrastructure while upgrading to an IP-based communications network.

Great River Energy is Arcadian Networks' anchor tenant in Minnesota. A not-for-profit generation and transmission cooperative, Great River Energy provides wholesale electric service to 28 distribution cooperatives serving about 1.7 million people in Minnesota and Wisconsin.

“Dispersed asset businesses and in particular electric, gas and water utility companies, are in the process of migrating their data communications backbone and remote monitoring of fixed sites to an IP-based network. This is a huge undertaking, which will take many years to complete. With so many viable urban telecommunication alternatives today, it is good to see companies developing a new business model to address the needs of rural and secondary markets. The requirements of such mission-critical data networks are quite different than the consumer-based networks available today. Many utilities will now have an additional communications media choice rather than buying and building the network themselves, often over extensive, challenging rural terrains,” said Rick Schmidt, an industry communications expert from Power System Engineering of Madison, WI.

For more information, visit www.arcadiannetworks.com.