LinkStar_S2 provides efficient data transfer for monitor and control of drinking water for entire city

ViaSat Inc. (Nasdaq:VSAT) has completed the rollout of its LinkStar®_S2 satellite networking system to ELIOP S.A. (Spain) for data collection, monitoring, and control of drinking and waste water operations for the Istanbul Water and Sewerage Administration General Directorate (ISKI). ELIOP has integrated its own “SHERPA” supervisory control and data acquisition (SCADA) technology with LinkStar terminals to gather information on water reservoir levels, pipeline integrity, water quality, and drinking and waste water distribution management for a community of 15 million customers. ViaSat supplied the complete satellite communication network including the antennas, satellite transmission electronics, LinkStar hub, and 300 network terminals.

 “This ISKI network is mission critical in the monitoring and control of the quality and distribution of drinking water to one of the most populous cities in the world,” said Guillermo Bosch, director of sales in Europe for ViaSat Commercial Satellite Networks. “We have a long-standing business relationship with ELIOP, the ISKI local representative for business and support in Turkey, and our LinkStar system has proven to be very efficient for this SCADA application.”

ELIOP, with 30 years of experience offering technically innovative telecontrol systems, has merged with Page Iberica to become Group “NUCLEO cc”, a large international technology group based in Spain. Within the group, ELIOP intends to offer technically innovative and value-added systems based on the integration of its products with those of other manufacturers. ELIOP supplies advanced, turnkey systems for telecommunications, computer science, and information technology for application in transport infrastructure, energy & environment, aeronautical and maritime, defence, and industrial process control.

The new Group NUCLEO cc, has annual revenues more than 130 million Euros and is active in 42 countries.

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