Solve Telecom Monitoring Challenges with a Dedicated Team
In my last several posts, I discussed how the SiteBoss units we’ve designed and manufactured at Asentria for years are more of a toolset than an out-of-the-box solution. Comparing telecom site automation to what people think of more generically as an IoT solution reveals some other differences. From experience rolling out across many remote telecom sites in […]
The Telecom Site Automation Toolset
In my last blog post, (My Boss Told Me to Go Find an IoT Solution Management for Cell Tower Sites), I talked about one recurring theme related to telecom site automation. There are vast differences between different telecom networks and even within a single telecom network. Suppose we were to use power as an example. […]
Legacy Alarming: Expanding Telecom Sites to Save Time and Money
Although the use of smart IP or serial devices in telecom sites is on the rise, legacy alarms, such as contact closures or analog inputs, are still widely used in most sites. In many cases, these legacy alarms are gathered by old or obsolete equipment. There are significant costs to change out the older alarm […]
My Boss Told Me to Go Find an IoT Solution Management for Cell Tower Sites
I have recently heard someone say that their boss tasked them to find an IoT (Internet of Things) solution to manage multiple cell tower site locations. It didn’t seem like the focus was on what the IoT solution would do, but it was important that it was IoT. It seemed that they thought that what […]
Tackling the challenge of data collection from disparate cell sites
How Asentria are laying the foundations for analytics, machine learning and AI in the tower industry In this interview TowerXchange and Jon Baars covers the following topics: Challenges around collecting data from cell sites with highly variable equipment How Asentria is cost optimising high spec technologies for emerging markets Ways to make RMS easier to […]
Coronavirus Safety Announcement
As COVID-19 continues to impact us in Seattle and around the world, Asentria wanted to update you on what steps we’ve taken so far to ensure business continuity for all our customers. In an event like this, the first focus is on the health and safety of our employees, partners, customers, and communities. Most Asentria […]
What is a SiteBoss and How Does it Work?
Introduction Several years ago, I was involved in the start-up of a fixed-wireless Internet service provider company. During the initial years of the start-up, the biggest capital expenditures (CAPEX)s were the infrastructure components (e.g., towers, networking gear, radios, antennas, leases, construction costs, etc.). However, after a few years of expanding the network’s footprint, the CAPEX […]
Preparing a Telecom Network for Weather-Related Disasters
Over the past few years, there has been an increase in weather-related disasters that affected grid power and telecom networks. A network’s grid resilience is significantly important as climate change increases the frequency and intensity of severe weather (i.e., thunderstorms, hurricanes, wildfires, blizzards). (Source: National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration (NOAA)) In this post, we’ll cover […]
End of Year Summary
It has been a busy and exciting year! Many thanks to our customers and all of the hard work put in by everyone at Asentria for the progress made this year. A lot has happened in the last twelve months. Asentria renewed our website in the last year, in large part, because we needed to […]
Scripting: Introduction to Adding Automation to Telecom Sites
Introduction Scripting for the SiteBoss is a very powerful way to add features into the unit that are specific for a particular situation. It is being used more and more to add that one more thing that is needed to make a Siteboss just the right solution for a particular problem. Because scripting is so […]