Tower Light Monitoring: Best Practices

While alarm monitoring is important for you at many levels, it is never more so than with antenna towers. A tower light failure not only inhibits your daily operations, but also increases your risk of heavy fines and liability. Installing a quality tower light monitoring solution is an effective method of protecting your long-term profitability.

Ensuring That Your Towers Are Always Lit
The FCC dictates that tower lights must be monitored and that any light failures must be corrected within a matter of minutes. Therefore, implementing the right monitoring tool for your tower lights cuts costs by shielding you from FCC fines.

The right monitoring device is installed at your tower sites and notifies you of outages and any other problems that occur. It is also compact and reliable.

Key Features of Tower Light Monitoring Solutions

Automatic Paging Alerts - A quality remote enables you to gain detailed information about your tower status wherever you are by sending alerts to your cell phone or pager.

UPS backup power - Monitoring is most crucial when there is a power failure at your site. Having a remote with an uninterruptible power source (UPS) allows your monitoring to remain online, even when the power is out.

Immediate Text-messaging - While the FCC requires you to notify the FAA within 30 minutes of a tower light failure, the tower light monitoring system allows you the ability to notify them within 30 seconds.

Your Ideal Remote Tower Monitoring Solution
You need a monitoring system to avoid FCC fines, but you cannot simply pick one at random. If you do, you will almost certainly end up with one that is insufficient or one with greater capacity than you will ever use.

The following tower monitoring solutions offer three advantages: cost-efficiency, a compact form factor, and high reliability.

AlphaMax
The AlphaMax monitors your tower lights and reports outages to up to 4 paging devices. The AlphaMax also has the ability to remotely activate site equipment

Netdog G2
The NetDog G2 is perfectly suited for smaller remote sites that require constant monitoring. The NetDog provides dial-up alarm reporting, LAN connectivity, and a convenient web browser interface. It also provides 2 analog inputs and allows for easy wiring with screw-down connectors.

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