PMR Products are pleased to announce the appointment of Jim Gourlay to Director of our Scottish Office. Jim has been with PMR for nearly ten years, and over this time has been instrumental in growing our business in Scotland.

This appointment recognises his achievements and importance to the business as we continue to grow, particularly with our new SafetyNet Custodial range of products. The Scottish office will flourish under Jim’s leadership, with additional resources being added to handle the significant growth of the Company in Scotland, as well as the rest of the UK.

SafetyNet Protect Plus – the small alarm with a big impact​​​​​​​

When safety is paramount to your team, we know you have to reassure them that they’re safe when they’re carrying out their duties and the SafetyNet Protect plus alarm is a physical reminder to them that help is just a tap away.

SafetyNet Protect+ was developed for prison and secure home applications but is equally relevant in the protection of others working in potentially confrontational or hazardous roles, particularly lone workers.

So what does SafetyNet Protect Plus do?

• Provides location updates via SafetyNet™ Mesh, a network of routers and beacons, with beacons located at key points in a defined area.
• Provides continuous tracking data or to provide location data only when the alarm is activated, depending on the application.
• Provides an accurate shock measurement for fall and no movement man‐down detection, which will raise an alert if the alarm button is pressed, a rip cord is pulled, or if it senses rapid movement or no movement at all.

Tracking of SafetyNet™ Protect+ units and alarm activation are managed centrally by SafetyNet™ Software. When a Protect+ alarm is activated the control room is alerted and all SafetyNet™ Protect+ devices on the system sound an alarm and receive messages with specific instructions, e.g. attend/don’t attend, including location information if required. The alarm will continue to sound until cancelled centrally in the control room.

SafetyNet™ Protect+ is designed to monitor people within a defined indoor area. The system can be used in any indoor situation but is especially useful in areas where achieving reliable GPS or Wi-Fi coverage is challenging.

With nearly thirty years’ experience of designing private mobile radio systems we understand that every application is different, so please contact us for a no-obligation discussion of your requirements.

PMR Products has considerable experience in designing, installing and maintaining communication solutions. To discuss your requirements please get in touch

PMR at Wind Europe 2023

We had the great honour of being one of the only Critical Communications companies invited to showcase our product at this year’s Wind Europe event in Copenhagen. Attended by over fifteen thousand industry key players, all with a vested interest in the future of renewable energy and pushing forward the innovations it needs to meet the demands for wind power.

What did PMR do?

We created a digital poster, presenting what we can do to ensure the safety of all those working on and off turbines.

Safety is still one of the primary considerations for wind farm operators. With the most favourable sites located in isolated and exposed environments, establishing reliable communications to facilitate the seamless interaction of many personnel is key to ensuring safety – no matter how far away from established communication networks they may be.

To meet the unique demands for reachability, response and robustness, critical communications solutions defined by digital land mobile radio (LMR) technologies like TETRA, P25, and DMR are making important contributions to keeping operations safe. However, a significant problem remained – once inside the steel column of the turbine the TETRA signal would be lost, therefore technicians would lose the ability to communicate.

One operator, with a 100km2 wind farm off the coast of Kent in the UK, wanted to ensure full, seamless radio coverage for all its personnel, especially the lone workers climbing inside the large steel towers of the turbines and technicians in the main machine room at the top of the tower. Our presentation discussed the challenges of the project in more depth and outlined the details of how a successful solution was developed and implemented.

You can watch the full presentation