Notifications, PBX integration, employee safety and efficiency
Tens of thousands of manufacturing facilities rely on two-way radios as their main communication tool.
TABLETmedia makes those same radios do more: a single TRBOserver ties into SCADA and other alarm systems, PBXs, and PA systems — improving efficiency and keeping workers safe.
WorkSafe adds another layer of safety and accountability — it identifies exactly which employee issued a distress call, and manages radio inventory by holding staff accountable for the devices they sign in.
And because it runs on-premise on your own network, it suits plants that keep OT and production data off the cloud entirely.
On the plant floor, where SCADA alarms and man-down alerts ride the radios, a network fault can mask a real emergency. TRBOmonitor monitors every repeater 24/7, catching problems before they cause an outage — because a radio network is only truly operations-critical when you can count on it, every time.
What it looks like on the plant floor
- Machine-fault alerts sent to maintenance radios
- Forklift and pedestrian safety alerts
- Lone-worker and man-down events
- PA evacuation announcements
- Gate, door, and relay control from a radio
- SCADA alarm acknowledgement from the field
- Radio recording for incident review
Capabilities deployed in the field
A sample of what manufacturing customers have put to work with TABLETmedia:
Our server ties directly into Wonderware, Siemens, Honeywell, C-cure, Zetron, GE, fire panels, video management (VMS), access control, and other SCADA / PLC sources. Notifications are then sent to:
- Digital radios as text messages
- Analog and digital radios as voice announcements
- Emails and SMS
- Telephones using text-to-speech
- Open gates, activate sirens, turn on pumps, or activate other equipment
In addition, TRBOserver enables complete control and automation of notifications coming from any device, including SCADA, PLC, and sensors, based on any criteria, such as time and priority, and escalation.
Through our telephone interconnect we connect to the facility’s VoIP telephone system to:
- Make calls to groups and individual radios
- Dial internal or external telephones from the radios
- Automatically dial security or 911 in case of an emergency
The quality of telephone calls is clear and responsive, and typically telephone callers are not even aware that they are talking to someone on a PTT device.
PBX integration can be used to dial phones and play alert messages converted in real time with text-to-speech. Users can also enter a code via DTMF to trigger alarms.
Indoors, TRBOaware pinpoints worker location across the plant floor using wireless beacons — used mainly for emergencies, sending a notification with a person’s last known location the moment an alert is raised.
Job Ticketing is about keeping track of tasks assigned to employees, which we handle via our browser-based job ticketing and webmail messaging solutions.
The typical functions supported include:
- User sign-in to enable users to pool the radios
- Replying to job tickets
- Create job tickets
- Receive and reply to text messages