Over decades, energy companies have deployed a hodge-podge of siloed networks that were selected based on application type—such as Supervisory Control And Data Acquisition (SCADA) or Trunk Mobile Radio (TMR)—budgetary constraints, or the availability of public carrier service in their territory. The result? Most field communication networks are cobbled together, not architected or engineered. What’s left is difficult to manage, and even more difficult to enhance.
At Arcadian Networks we refer to this problem as the “communication knot”—a tangled infrastructure of terrestrial and wireless systems that hinder production as much as support it.