TCS Consultants, Inc. - MDS (Microwave Data Systems) SCADA, MAS, and Telemetry

Last Updated: June 29, 2007

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Why MDS (Microwave Data Systems) Radios?		MDS HHT
	Since 1987, MDS has been in the forefront of designing and manufacturing industrial wireless solutions. Microwave Data Systems, Inc. is one of the few companies that TCS Consultants, Inc. endorses. In a new age of wireless and innovation, too many products are literally flying off the production lines with cheap promises and poor reliability. Because MDS has been building, supplying, developing and improving their products since 1987, their products are unquestionable in reliability. In the 25 years that TCS Consultants, Inc. has been consulting and designing systems, MDS has never been the subject of faulty equipment or poor design. If quality and competitive costs are your needs for replacing everything from data control terminals to frame-relay system, MDS is the only alternative.	Hand Held Terminal
Why use TCS Consultants, Inc. ?		iNET Diagram
	TCS Consultants, Inc. uses HHT (Hand Held Terminal) devices for quick radio configuration and deployment without any need for system downtime or computer terminals being available for configuration purposes. TCS is also a value added reseller (VAR) for MDS and can provide full turn-key systems for the wireless interconnect. TCS has proven itself to be experts in the field of RF design and optimization and can provide full propagation analysis, preliminary and physical path surveys, site evaluations, and radio, tower and antenna installation. TCS maintains full transmission line testing capabilities and electrical ground measurement devices allowing for quick troubleshooting and certification of installation. TCS Consultants, Inc. provides installation, optimization, and trouble shooting for all MDS (Microwave Data System ) products. TCS maintains all the software, test units, and remote simulators to ensure quick, reliable, and inexpensive radio installation and trouble shooting without the need for host computers or remote logic controllers installed.	Interconnect
Applications and Uses		Technology
	MDS provides both licensed and unlicensed products in a variety of frequency ranges. This equipment was primarily used for SCADA (Secondary Control and Data Acquisition) or MAS (Multiple Address Systems) in the past, and even though these applications are still required, the move toward TCP/IP communications has forged to the forefront of the wireless movement. MDS, being ever ready for the change, has produced a variety of products to compete within that market place. TCS Consultants, Inc. had the pleasure of providing one of the first practical applications of these units to provide mobile data terminals to the City of Conroe police department. With a growing need for mobile dispatch centers - the police department needed a DSL level TCP/IP connection that would reach areas that other wireless technologies could not. Because of database sync. problems, satellite interfaces - which are delay problematic - were not an option, so the system required a single source base that would reach a specified distance about the city. TCS chose MDS for their reliability, support, warranty, and willingness to prove their product. The system has proven to be an enormous success.