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- 1. Indian Telecom Market Overview
- 2. Indian Independent Tower Industry Market share
- 3. Key Risks and Challenges for the Indian Telecom Tower Industry
- 4. Initiatives for Operational Prudence
- 5. Top Challenges facing by the Telecom industry FUEL PILFERAGE UNSECURED REMOTE SITES ADHERENCE TO SLAs MONITORING SITE POWER CONSUMPTION SITE DOWNTIME MANAGING RENEWABLE ENERGY ASSET MANAGEMENT
- 6. TOWER X- Our solution for TMS Features:- •Asset Management • Alarm Management • Fuel Management •Predictive Maintenance •Workforce Management
- 7. How Tower-X is helping operators to boost profits STAFF AUTHORIZATION BATTERY MONITORING POWER ON-OFF FIRE DETECTION LEAK DETECTION DG MONITORING ALERT ON PHYSICAL ATTACK ENVIRONMENTAL MONITORING ON-SITE SURVEILLANCE SLA FOLLOW-UP
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- 11. SENSOR SOLUTIONS FOR CELL TOWER MONITORING Detecting Temperature
- 13. Monitoring Asset Conditions TOWER-X SERVER
- 15. Tower-X Process Flow 15 INFRASTUCTURE WORKER SERVICES Queue Mongo db collection Blob SQLROLE ENTRY POINT TCP/IP LISTENER MESSAGE QUEUE SOCKET Open Connection MCU Message CACHE MANAGER WEB ROLES & WORKER ROLES Read Message Parsed message SQL SERVER & MONGO DB TOWERX APPLICATION Message (HTTP) Listen
- 17. Site Monitoring
- 18. Reports
- 19. Why TOWER-X for Tower Management •IoT deployments are extremely complex involving massive number of sites to be monitored and connecting a mix of devices, networks, and applications. •The out of the box TMS functionality from TOWER-X enables a simplified implementation and minimizes the time required for configuration. •Backed by deep expertise, highly extensible IoT Platform, and broad ecosystem of partners, TOWER-X functionality plays a key role in providing end-to-end cell tower monitoring solution.
Editor's Notes
- Time is right to look into the future of the Indian Tower Industry. With the increasing proliferation of smartphones among the Indian masses, data will grow exponentially, requiring a significant number of additional data sites over the next few years. An amalgamation of coopetition and competition among telecom operators and tower companies will be required to cater to this next phase of growth. With increasing market competitiveness, the current focus of the telecom operators in India has moved from increasing the subscriber base to improving the ‘active’ user base. Moreover, telecom operators are laying emphasis on operational prudence more than ever. There are three key aspects which would continue to fuel growth of tower companies: • Strong focus on operational excellence • Data explosion • Potential in rural areas to add subscribers to the ‘active’ user base.
- There are close to 400,000 telecom towers in India at present and are estimated to increase at a CAGR of 3% over next 4-5 years. The decline in growth of voice usage along with industry developments and regulations in India have raised concerns about the growth of independent tower businesses, thereby affecting their cash flows and debt repayments. However, exploding data traffic is leading to in-building solutions and smaller cell sites, and is expected to drive growth of the Indian tower industry in the future. As early movers, Indian tower companies have become global industry leaders with a large number of towers under management.
- Operator consolidation: In case of operator consolidation, the requirement of additional sites might get reduced among the consolidating players negatively impacting the tenancies for tower companies. However, consolidation will be restricted to smaller players, thereby having a limited impact on tower companies. NetCo & other infrastructure sharing: The operators might enter into NetCo agreements wherein they share their networks for cost optimization, as a result of which the site requirement for different operators would be less. Traffic off-loading: Due to large traffic volumes expected in next 4-5 years, operators are expected to off-load a large amount of traffic on micro sites, small cells and Wi-Fi, which might render the macro site tenancy growth lesser than expected. Spectrum sharing & carrier aggregation: Currently, spectrum sharing is not allowed in India, however, if allowed it may negatively impact the additional site requirements across the operators. Similarly, carrier aggregation may increase the spectrum utilization and reduce the site requirement. Alternate access technologies: Entry of new market players such as Comcast and Google can pose further competition to network operators. Technology disruptions like MVNOs using Wi-Fi hotspots and Google’s gigabit internet can significantly impact mobile network operators’ business and in turn, can reduce tower sites demand as well.
- Tower companies are undertaking a gamut of initiatives to optimize operations and achieve new levels of efficiency. The key initiatives among these include efforts to reduce costs related to power and fuel, maintenance, estate management and tower security. Cost efficient site design is another focus area for the tower companies. Many tower players have invested in developing a state-of-art tower operations center from where they can monitor site performance across towers on real-time basis. Many tower companies are also setting up well-structured maintenance programs in the form of preventive/ predictive and risk based maintenance activities. They are using live site monitoring data to ensure maximum uptime across its sites by having 24X7 Network Operations Center for Site and equipment maintenance. The tower companies are also focusing on training of its technical manpower to ensure minimum equipment breakdown and superior maintenance.
- The bottom line of TowerMonitoring Solution (Tower-X) is that telecom service providers can gain visibility into tower performance, transforming the way in which they operate by reducing operating expenditure and keeping profits up. Sensors mounted anywhere from door, fuel tank, to camera - collect and transmit real-time data to the central management system, giving operators a complete picture of their current operational condition. The real value of IoT for the telecom service industry is in gaining real-time insight into key operations and asset performance indicators. Tower-x offers a turn –key solution for remote monitoring of cell tower sites located in widely distributed geographical area. It’s holistic solution that enables remote site management, energy efficiency, maintenance, and security of the entire site. Tower-X provides a proactive approach in managing the infrastructure by leveraging remote site intelligence that allows operators to anticipate, identify, and mitigate issues faster.
- With TMS(Tower-X), you can do the following: Maintain Service Level Agreements(SLAs) with minimal capital expenditure Ensure smooth operations of asset-intensive remote sites Monitor fuel filling and avert fuel pilferage Cut opex to remain competitive Reduce environmental damage by cutting down carbon emission.
- TOWER-X SOLVING BUSINESS PROBLEMS Power Management Cell tower sites rely on three major power sources: an often undependable grid, diesel generator, and battery bank (solar/wind power in few cases). With TMS, operators can swap between power sources and they can remotely switch to battery backup when the grid goes down thus optimizing battery lifetime. The solution also enables telecom operators to obtain the information required for strategic planning. For instance, detailed reports on power consumption of devices and outages facilitate operators to plan additional load requirements. Monitoring asset conditions As cell towers operate in remote conditions with capital-intensive fixed assets, asset underutilization poses a threat of loss for companies in terms of downtime. Obliviously, it is vital to monitor real-time health of assets to predict maintenance need and to identify the underperforming assets. For instance, the quality of power generated by the diesel generator is ascertained ( in kWh) to define generator runtime and to measure the cost per kwh, enabling telecom operators to classify genset for replacement. TOWER-X allows operators to create custom views through custom dashboard feature. Wherein, a user can create a custom view of the status of all the assets at a particular cell tower site. Smart workforce and connected logistics TOWER-X app brings in transparency within the supply chain and streamlines the workforce. When a remote cell site goes down, the field technicians will receive an emergency alert with details on device glitches, troubleshooting chores and accurate information on site location. By implementing WebNMS CTM, telecom service providers can save 30% in maintenance and 20% of fuel costs on an average.
- Elements of Tower X Energy Management System Monitoring all electrical parameters like voltage, current ,energy, power factor, frequency, harmonics etc. HVAC Management:- Monitor Temperature and humidity to determine the optimal environmental settings Surge Protection Device Monitoring:- Many Parameters like Earth Line Current, Earth Line Peak Voltage on Surge event Alarm/ Alerts Via Mobile/ Email/ Dashboard Security Management:- Surveillance of the whole tower site with the help of cameras and motion detection sensors Biometric/ RFID based Access control for the site with proper log of Entry and Exit DG Monitoring:- Fuel Level Sensors Helps us know the Fuel Levels Viscosity Sensors helps us in Alerting if Fuel is replaced with some other Liquid Power Source Monitoring:- Alerts over Events Triggered Via SMS/ EMail/ Dashboard etc.
- LIST OF SENSORS USED Fuel sensor:- Tracks fuel level and detects pilferage Motion detector:-Identifies unauthorized movement in site. Door sensor:-Restricts authorized access into the cell tower site. Fire sensor:-Alerts during smoke/ fire. Leakage sensor:-Detects liquid or fuel leaks. Temperature sensor:-Maintains cell tower site at optimum temperature. Vibration sensor:-Detects tampering of devices. AC/DC current sensor:-Determines the quality of power generated.
- Managing cooling loads have become very significant. Intelligent temperature sensors installed in the cell tower room enables precise control of air temperature range. A sensor mounted on each equipment ensures that all the equipment are operating within the suggested temperature level. Adding to this, TOWER-X CTM integrates temperature sensors with the cooling system that helps to maintain optimum temperature within the cell tower room and reduces cooling costs.
- TOWER-X Tower Monitoring solution provides detailed visibility of assets, and protects the cell tower from mafias and any physical security threats. On-site surveillance camera records susceptible movement outside the site. A door monitoring unit is configured to trigger alarms when a door is opened by an unauthorized person. This is connected to Tower-X central management system where the collected environment data is pushed for further action. Any malicious tampering of the door or any device inside the site raises an alarm to the operator.
- All the supporting systems in a cell tower need to be properly maintained. Ensuring maximum uptime demands 24/7 monitoring of the devices. When a device fails, it can take down mission critical operations. Tower-X Tower Monitoring System enables operators to take control of generators, battery status, fuel tanks, and cooling system. When a remote cell site goes down, the field technician will receive an emergency alert with complete and accurate information of site location, device that has gone down and the root cause of its failure.
- A fire or fluid leak can cost thousands of dollars in equipment damage and affecting enterprise productivity. Leak detection systems connect with sensors positioned in cell tower site to detect leak across the site and trigger alarm to prevent damage.
- Infrastructure worker role services Setting up Environment: Create: -> Message Queue -> Mongo dB Collection A persistent object store maps between objects in your application and records in a persistent store -> Blob storage Blob storage is a service that stores file data in the cloud. Blob storage can store any type of text or binary data, such as a document, media file Open: -> Sql server Role entry services Entry point that establish (Bidirectional) communication link between (Server and Client) running on the same network that listen the Data packet Message (string collection of bytes) -> Perform Checking whether Data packet Message IS (GPRS Packet Type OR SMS Packet Type) Cache provider A cache provides high throughput, low-latency access to commonly accessed application data, by storing the data in memory. For a cloud app the most useful type of cache is distributed cache, which means the data is not stored on the individual web server's memory but on other cloud resources, and the cached data is made available to all of an application's web servers. Message queue Messaging is a way of asynchronous communication of applications running on same or different machines with reliable delivery. Programs communicate by sending packets of data called messages to each other. A message may be a string, a byte array, an object... etc. Typically, a sender (producer) program creates a message and pushes it to a message queue and a receiver (consumer) program gets the message from the queue and processes it. WORKER ROLE AND WEB ROLE SERVICES A Web Role (consisting of 1 or more instances) that hosts a website or an API and is accessed by the application’s users. The web role can perform simple tasks synchronously, but whenever any complex processing is required it will create a message and drop it on a Queue. ->One or more Queues, which support asynchronous communication between the Web Role and the Worker Role. ->A Worker Role (consisting of 1 or more instances) which pull messages of the Queue and perform slow or complex processing tasks. ->Storage (such as Tables, Blobs or SQL Database) that stores the system’s state and typically includes the result of the Worker Role’s processing tasks.
- Dashboards help the users to monitor the Site’s health and Performance by displaying visual information about all the sites. Three different dashboards are incorporated in the Systems Health Wizard which displays information about the:- EB and Non EB sites Uptime and Outage duration details Power and Fuel Cost details Faults trend Manpower mapping Fuel Consumption details Preventive Maintenance tickets details Total run hours of all the sites and many more details
- Site Monitoring helps users to visualize information from all the sites, thus making the sites health monitoring easier. Global Site Monitoring screen gives abstract information of the alarms that are received from all the Sites in the System. The features seen in the Global Site Monitoring Screen Are:- Filtering, Global Search Left Scroll Bar and Site Monitoring Grid. The Single Site monitoring screen helps the users monitor any selected site from the global monitoring screen. Visual information of the battery DG Grid Room Temperature Mobile DG DC etc. for a site can be seen, thus making the health monitoring of the site easier.
- Report generation is one of the fabulous Future of TMS. In this product large unit of functions are included, so the report generation is made user-friendly to find the all information according to assets, on printed statement with in excel sheet and PDF format.