Arkessa offers a range of services optimised to the demands of remote management delivered through the Ark, the technically advanced and industrial-strength network operations centre built specifically for remote internet connections and services. There are a number of specific benefits including:

• Fixed private IP address so that a completely secure connection can be made to the remote device
• Public fixed IP address if multiple users need to control the remote device (but with less security)
  
• Optimised traffic profiling to minimise cost but with maximum user flexibility
• Security, end to end, by means of secure addressing and private network links
• VPN direct into the Ark network operations and data centre
• Data management (data cap) to prevent excessive use of data and to provide an early alert in the even of equipment malfunction
  

Many current users have a wide range of applications; here are just a few…

Transport Infrastructure

Current facilities using Arkessa remote management services include:

• Street lamps
• Automatic number plate recognition (ANPR) systems
• Variable message signs
• Highway surveillance and monitoring
• Weather monitoring
  

Energy Management

Arkessa has created a customised service for energy management. It employs multiple mobile networks and provides optimised communications to handle firstly, data from sensors and, secondly, management and control of remote facilities.

One retailer uses the service to receive data from sensors that monitor temperature, humidity and even the number of people entering a retails store and communicating with a specialised energy management centre which then uses further secure fixed IP connections from Arkessa to manage the heating lighting, ventilation and air-conditioning equipment on many hundreds of sites throughout the UK. Multiple mobile networks are employed to ensure coverage of the many facilities and monitoring points on each site.

Construction Sites

Arkessa rapid deployment 3G connections are used by a number of customers to provide security to construction sites before any fixed infrastructure is available

• Rapid deployment of CCTV cameras
  
• Temporary installation
  
• No fixed infrastructure required
  
• No wait to install

Process Management

Several global corporations have implemented pan-European services customised by Arkessa to meet their particular process management and monitoring requirements. These include:

• Monitoring the quality of oil filters at European airports
  
• Managing pumps for chemical plants throughout Europe
  
• Data from off-shore wave monitoring sued to control off-shore wind turbines

HealthCare

The highly secure and robust services provided by the Ark data centre make Arkessa the ideal partner for the development and operations of remote health care services. This is further enhanced by our ability to connect using multiple mobile and fixed communications networks making home healthcare and quality of life services in the community a practical reality.

Arkessa is currently engaged in a number of healthcare initiatives including:

• Services for home use in three major European countries
  
• IV infusion pump, real time and actual flow monitoring in the home
  
• Home healthcare monitoring for elderly patients