Omega Wireless is using its 600 MHz licenses to deliver a private LTE network pilot program New York Power Authority (NYPA) in collaboration with Nokia. The program will examine the value of using Nokia’s industrial-grade private LTE wireless network on Omega’s Band 71 spectrum at NYPA’s Blenheim Gilboa Power Plant.
Some of the applications the program is hoping to support including mobile enablement of the digital utility worker, Voice over LTE and drone control with video uplink. If successful, the network could make it possible for the utility company to use drones to help manage critical field operations for NYPA’s more than 1,400 circuit-miles of transmission lines.
