What We Do

We can design, supply, install and commission centralised or distributed PLC, RIO and RTU control panel enclosures and systems to meet your plant control automation or monitoring requirements and provide systems up to the desired ‘N’ (Number of Components) redundancy (N, N+1, N+2, 2N, 2N+1, 2N+2, 3N/2) to eliminate single points of failure and can arrange a solution to conform to specific SIL (Safety Integrity Level) control system safety requirements.

Besides the more widely known control and automation systems that have been mentioned or are commonly referred to in the industry, we can also provide several other specialist system solutions including Campus fire alarm management, Highly complex tunnel ventilation, Automatic people mover, Baggage systems, Customer information systems, Rail signalling and axel-counting systems, Station Management Systems, Process Control, Gas safety & Monitoring, Tunnel control & monitoring systems and M2M Database integration.

We can supply, install and interface to a variety of electrical and mechanical meters, including water, gas, oil, fuel and heat meters that comply with specific standards. We can integrate them into any chosen energy, power or SCADA software package, no matter what protocol or interface type and also provide organisations with an assortment of tools to accurately measure, monitor, analyse and bill energy usage at a granular level across buildings and estates.

We utilise open lighting system technology products and protocols, such as DALI (Digital Addressable Lighting Interface) and KNX and we can integrate lighting systems to other services such as SCADA, BMS, fire, CCTV and other plants. We put to use occupancy sensors, time clocks, photocells, other integrated system triggers and software strategies which can control groups of lights (zones) within a space.

We can provide enhanced access control systems that can restrict, manage and monitor people and vehicles ‘around the clock’. Our solutions provide alarming and comprehensive rule-based access control through access zone management and our systems will enhance the security and safety of your employees, visitors, building and assets and can be set up to integrate with any other automation system. This enables you to control lighting, HVAC equipment, elevators, CCTV and other services in response to cause and effect access events and alarm conditions such as fire and emergency evacuation.

The combination of logistics, threats, security vulnerabilities and law enforcement are at the forefront of operations for airports, roads, rail networks, ports, prisons and other buildings. With the use of modern camera systems, these concerns and requirements can be alleviated. Camera and surveillance systems, plus image processing systems can be used to monitor infrastructure, people, packages and vehicles. Indoor or outdoor application, we can design highly intelligent systems to meet stringent compliance to military, security, police and prosecution authority application requirements. We can use our experience to 3D model areas, in providing the correct design and required level of detection and recognition.

Many businesses are increasingly wanting to take advantage of gaining information available via wireless systems such as alarms, energy performance, and plant status. By installing RTUs (Remote Terminal Units) around their estates that interface and collect data from plant and transmit and tunnel the information back to other control systems or software platforms such as SCADAs (Supervisory Control and Data Acquisition), EMSs (Energy Management System), PMS (Power Management System), BMSs (Building Management System) and other headend supervisor platforms, organisations are able to create smart systems.

We can use our experience to help clients design, supply, install and implement appropriate future proof technology that is robust, safe and reliable. Whether it is a PTT (Push to Talk) or TETRA (Terrestrial Trunked Radio) radio systems, Telemetry or integration that utilises MQTT (Message Queuing Telemetry Transport), Modbus, DNP3 (Distributed Network Protocol), SNMP (Simple Network Management Protocol) and other protocols. 

Data transmission is utilised and plays an extremely important role in OT system networks. System equipment such as servers, computers, firewalls, routers, switches, storage, modems, gateways, SCADA (Supervisory Control and Data Acquisition), PLCs (Programmable Logic Controller), PACs (Programmable Automation Controller), DDC (Direct Digital Control) and field plant, assets, equipment and devices transmit data via serial ports such as RS-232 and RS-485, Copper twisted pair, Coaxial, Ethernet, Fibre and Wireless networks.

We design and supply OT systems that can identify and authenticate all devices within the system to mitigate the risk of untrusted devices on a network that has the intention of taking control of a network along with closing the separation between IT and OT.

Our solutions consider the physical and software configuration to make sure data generated from systems has integrity and accuracy for the use of smart analytics.

We have extensive experience with integrating and mapping dissimilar network, file and protocol types into unified systems that verify devices are reliably communicating and correctly.

With the greater threat of cyber-attack, it is essential that systems and plants are secure. We are familiar with the use of segregation, encapsulation, and DMZs (Demilitarised Zones) to enhance security. With the use of VPNs (Virtual Private Networks), VLANs (Virtual LANs), Firewalls, Proxy Servers, and Domain Controllers. 

Our solutions include building or campus installations and our system designs can prioritise voice messages and operate to call common or individual zoned areas such as individual rooms, terminals and station platforms. Our solutions can be tailored to work in conjunction with other systems such as fire alarm systems, electronic signage and public information systems and our Voice Alarm systems produce clear spoken messages to compliment fire alarm and emergency systems, to provide the public with warnings and information. Strategically placed emergency handsets allow the Emergency Services to take over any emergency.

ICT (Information & Communications Technology) rooms and associated containment routes should last the lifetime of a building. Therefore, it’s important to analyse not only any current requirements but for the future also.

Quite often in the construction phase of a project, conflicts can arise due to space but having everything documented sufficiently will avoid arguments of objection. Ensuring requirements are clear, standards incorporated, and designs are sufficient early on will notably reduce the risk of costly revisions later, alleviating space issues for essential services or for the accommodation of future expansion, modifications, and upgrades.

We will consider factors related to cable security, fire resistance, noise, heating, electrical EMC (Electromagnetic compatibility), containment paths, loadings and equipment access, and movement.

When considering the furnishing of ICT rooms, we will cater our designs to fully consider width, depth and height, raised floors, location of equipment, cooling plant, internal conduits, generic cabling systems and power, air ventilation, access control, fire prevention and other elements.

A PIS provides visual and audio information to passengers at bus and train stations, port terminals, airports, bus stops and transfer facilities. Real-time operational information on services running is collected from vehicle location systems, control systems and including incident capturing systems. This information is compared algorithmically with service timetables to initiate predictions and updates on transport services scheduled. We can provide consultancy, supply, installation and integration of PIS and can offer a variety of architectures, hardware and software products to meet application requirements.