Australian communication solutions company Madison Technologies has been appointed Australia and New Zealand distributor for Pennsylvania based Rajant Corporation’s’ Kinetec Mesh, wireless mesh technology
Rajant said Madison would be offering the technology to industries, such as mining, oil & gas, rail, transport, ports, smart cities, emergency services and utilities.
Rajant made no mention of other arrangement in Australia. Rajant’s Kinetic Mesh s already available in Australia from Smarttech Australia. In March 2016 Rajant announced a strategic partnership with Connector Systems as a distributor in Australia and New Zealand. (Connector had just been acquired by Ingram Micro).
And in an October 2018 article in The Australian Mining Review. Mitsui & Co said it had partnered with Rajant. “These networks are used to provide a dynamic wireless infrastructure that can move and adapt as mining operations change or expand,” it said.
Geoff Smith, Rajant’s executive VP of sales & marketing, said: “With Rajant’s Kinetic Mesh network, [Madison] will now be able to offer their clients a solution with total mobility, autonomous adaptability and mission-critical reliability.
Rajant claims the its Kinetic Mesh is “unlike any other wireless mesh network offering on the market today, providing fully mobile wireless broadband connectivity that is simple, instantaneous, and fail-proof in any application.”
It explains that Kinetec Mesh a combination of BreadCrumb wireless network nodes and InstaMesh networking software. “BreadCrumbs can communicate with any Wi-Fi or Ethernet-connected device to deliver low-latency, high-throughput data, voice and video applications across the meshed, self-healing network
“Every node in a Kinetic Mesh network can act independently and with full routing capabilities, making it a true peer-to-peer network that is completely mobile-enabled,” Rajant says
“With no single point of failure and self-healing capabilities, Kinetic Mesh networks guarantee uptime of your mission-critical applications.”
According to Mitsui’s Australian Mining Reviewarticle Kinetic Mesh is of particular use to deep open cut mines. “The unbreakable network allows nodes to decide which other node to connect to, based on available frequencies, signal strength, throughput, latency and any applicable local interference.”
Global connectivity from BT
In September 2015 we reported that BT Global Services had struck an agreement with Rajant provide global connectivity to installations of Rajant’s wireless Kinetic Mesh network technology in factories, mine sites etc.
