CONNECT SUBSTATIONS & REPLACE AGING COPPER SCADA

Whether your company is planning a broadband deployment or not, connecting your substations with state of the art fiber will allow you to do Signalling, Control And Data Acquisition in real time, and also deploy Smart Meters.  This is a great first step and can help monetize your fiber deployment right away.  You just build the substation to substation connections, leveraging your existing aerial infrastructure.  The key is to build this backbone network with a future customer or member distribution network in mind.

BROADBAND PLATFORM

Electric companies are well positioned to offer fiber-based broadband services!  They have been building electrical infrastructure for decades.  Partnering with Petricorp Group Services ensures that each electric company will learn the nuances of a low voltage fiber network in the Telco space of the power pole infrastructure.  Although a power company can build an all-dielectric fiber network in the power zone, deploying fiber in the lower Telco space is more economical and allows for easier deployment of customer or member broadband services.  This service is a natural fit with power companies.

POLE CONTACTS

In order to deploy a fiber network on existing poles, Petricorp Group services will come out and conduct a field survey of each pole in the network.  Not only does this process verify the location and attachment heights of all cable and hardware, it ensures that the pole loading is not exceeded with the addition of fiber optic cable and strand.  This process ensures that poles are deployed under NESC rules and that all foreign contacts are accounted for at the proper clearances.  At the end of this process, each power company receives an annotated photo of each pole in their network, making infrastructure decisions and planning easy.  This data is then used to determine the height and path of the fiber optic cable.

POWER COMPANY METER BASE

As Petricorp Group Services meets and plans with power companies across the regions, we find one consistent driver for a Rural Electric Member Cooperative (REMC) to offer fiber based broadband services.  It is the idea that no other service deployment can help the company increase its number of customers like broadband can!  If you want to reverse the trend of people moving out of your service territory and revenue loss due to a decrease in meters., then you r best next step is to consider a fiber optic broadband network deployment.  A service area with great fiber optic broadband will drive an increase in your power membership and revenue also!