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““Dead Sea Works” Customer StoryDead Sea Works” Customer Story

Oded PludaOded Pluda

Alvarion, 2007Alvarion, 2007

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AgendaAgenda

• About the customer

• The Challenge

• Applications

• The Alvarion solution

• Business benefit

• Looking ahead

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About the customerAbout the customer

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““Dead Sea Works”Dead Sea Works”

Owned by Israel Chemicals Ltd.

World fourth largest producer of potash products: 11% of world potash production.

Main mining area and process plant located in the south of the dead see, Israel.

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The ChallengeThe Challenge

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““Dead Sea works” challengesDead Sea works” challenges

Improve security Provide video connectivity to remote pump houses and control rooms.

Support the manufacturing processProvide data connectivity to off-shore dredges

To build a data network that can operate and survive extreme conditions of altitude and heat.

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ApplicationsApplications

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The production processThe production process

Mineral “harvested” from solar evaporation pan.

“Dredges” (a large vassal that slowly moves over the pans surface) "harvests" the solution.

On the “Dredge” there is lot of industrial manufacturing equipment to control the operation of the raft.

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Remote operationsRemote operations

“Dead sea works” permit area is over 4000 km²

Pump houses and Generator rooms located a few miles from plant facility.

Remote locations operation does not require presents.

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The Alvarion SolutionThe Alvarion Solution

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Products - BreezeNET DS.11 and PRO.11 Products - BreezeNET DS.11 and PRO.11

High survivabilityMTBF over 11 years; over 99.99% availability

-40°c to + 60°c temperature range

Robustness & redundancyIP-67 rating (NEMA 4X equivalent)

AU & SU redundancy

Range & coverageMaximum cell radius up to 32 miles

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Deployment Deployment

BreezeNET DS.11 Point-to-point links were set up between the main plant building, where the network backbone resides, and the remote pumping stations and offices located on the shore of the evaporation pans.

At each remote office, a BreezeNET PRO11 access point was installed, serving up to 3 dredges, at point-to-multipoint.

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Supporting the production processSupporting the production process

Dredges are equipped with PRO.11 CPEs

DS.11 base stations situated along the banks of every pond

Extraction and processing information transmitted from the dredges back to HQ.

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Supporting remote locationsSupporting remote locations

Remote location equipped with PRO.11 CPEs and Close circuit cameras.

CCTV monitor activities and movements and send a constant stream of images back over the DS.11 network to the main office for monitoring

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Business BenefitBusiness Benefit

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Benefits pointsBenefits points

A reliable and remote data network for remote operation

streamline manufacturing processes and increased production levels

Improved security and protection of expensive equipment on remote pump stations and control rooms.

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Benefit as perceived by customerBenefit as perceived by customer

"The Alvarion Wireless network is essential for the daily operations of the DSW. The increase in uptime and the improved productivity could not have been made without the use of wireless broadband network. Previously, any production equipment malfunction aboard the rafts would require time to drive to the site and repair. Now, remote monitoring fixes these issues. Uptime is increased and so has overall productivity. Alvarion products have proved to be reliable and robust, and have exceeded our expectations”

Adi Babayof, Industrial communication & Instrumentation Engineering department manager, Dead Sea works

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Looking AheadLooking Ahead

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Future trendsFuture trends

Technology requires more bandwidthenabling new and enhanced manufacturing capabilities

“Un-manned Dredge” trial

Look into upgrade to BreezeNET B series, improving

performance

latency

Throughput

Security

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Thank youThank you

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