Odyssey Systems has completed one of its biggest projects to date - including the creation of a Wi-Fi zone the size of three football pitches.
The Stockton-based telecommunications specialist won a major contract with food packaging manufacturer Coveris Rigid UK to provide services for the company’s Chester-le-Street factory.
Work carried out included the 264,000 sq ft Wi-Fi zone - and 31 kilometres of cabling.
As part of the conversion of the Coveris Rigid UK’s Drum Park facility, Odyssey installed a 100MB lease line and phone extensions that are integrated with the company’s other UK and European sites.
The factory was fitted with a whole-site roaming Wi-Fi network throughout, to provide consistently strong Wi-Fi connections in all office, manufacturing and warehouse locations and allow staff to move throughout the building using devices without losing connection to the network.
The system will be of particular benefit to Coveris’ logistics partner, Stiller Warehousing and Logistics, to enable its staff to interact with the company’s IT systems using mobile devices.
A team of 10 Odyssey engineers delivered the project over five days.
Once the building is complete, the company will begin producing its range of food packaging products, distributing around 1.7bn units a year across the UK.
Mike Odysseas, Managing Director of Odyssey Systems, said: “We are very proud to have completed this significant project for Coveris, which not only demonstrated our ability to deliver jobs of this scale to very tight deadlines, it enabled our engineers to apply innovative solutions to meet our customer’s requirements.
“The connectivity we have brought to the site will support Coveris’ productivity drive and enhance the interaction between the company and its logistics partner.”
Ian Donal, Operations Manager and Drum Project Manager from Coveris Rigid UK, said: “Odyssey has played a key role in establishing the communication infrastructure at Drum Park and will enable our employees to maximise the use of technology to manage and operate our business. “The large Wi-Fi network will be of particular benefit to our operations as the consistency of its signal strength throughout the factory will support a wide range of technology-based systems designed to boost productivity.”
Odyssey Systems was founded by Mike Odysseas in 1987 and employs around 30 people.
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