Background
Pan Pac Forest Products Limited is a fully integrated forestry / timber products company, located in the Hawkes Bay region of New Zealand. The Forestry and Logistics division of Pan Pac Forest Products provides the wood needed by Pan Pac's Pulp and Lumber divisions. Pan Pac manages 33,500 hectares of forest, from planting through to harvesting, transport and marketing the logs.
When Pan Pac needed to upgrade their existing conventional analogue network, they chose to partner with iNet, a regional network operator using Hytera DMR products.
User
Pan Pac Forest Products Limited, New Zealand
Market Segment
Lumbering
Project Time
2013
Product
PD78X Portable Radio
MD78X Mobile Radio
RD98X Repeater
Hytera dispatch system
The Challenge
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Pan Pac's operational area covers a very large geographical region that is extremely difficult to provide coverage over due to the terrain being heavily forested and hilly. Therefore, managing the safety of Pan Pac's forestry workers and contractors during the harvesting and transportation of the wood products used by Pan Pac's Pulp and Lumber divisions is of great importance to Pan Pac's management team.
Ensuring the centralised dispatch office can communicate with the entire transportation fleet on an “all informed basis” over a large geographical region is the first challenge for the new network. Secondly, all conversations initiated from individual drivers needs to be relayed over the entire network. This all informed requirement ensures all operators within the wide area forestry operation know what is happening.
In addition to the all informed voice communications, the Pan Pac Dispatch office needs to know where their logging vehicles are. -
该通信解决方案需要在整个高尔夫球场以及设施大楼和其他区域内提供良好的覆盖范围。大范围的人员和官员必须配备收音机，以提供清晰的语音通信和数据消息服务，包括记分员，裁判员，课程运营人员，保安人员，饮料和餐饮人员，以及许多志愿者来帮助举办赛事。
The Solution
Local regional network operator worked with the Hytera's New Zealand Distributor Logic Wireless to design and install a four site Tier II DMR network. The network and centralised dispatch software were designed to ensure all Pan Pac employees and contractors had all informed voice communications
across the entire four site network.
To achieve the coverage required by Pan Pac, a mixture of IP linking and RF linking was required. In addition to reliable voice communications, the configuration of the Hytera DMR radios has also provided up to date radio registration services, GPS location updates and text messaging.
The centralised dispatch application provides a single PC based application to report and record all voice communications, location updates and messages sent over the network.
The Benifits
The Hytera DMR radio system provided for Pan Pac Forest Products has given them a significant number of benefits over their old conventional analogue network.
•All informed communications facilitates users no need to change channel.
•Upgrade to two channels to carry double voice and data services.
•GPS location updates for all forestry vehicles.
•Centralised dispatch application records all activities over the network.