Aprisa SR

Secure, multipoint wireless data connectivity for monitoring

and control of critical infrastructure

Ideal for all oil, gas and utility SCADA
applications: offshore rigs and
onshore pump jacks, transmission
pipelines, electricity generation
plants and turbines, power storage
and distribution, water and waste
processing plants

Reliable, robust, single-box solution
supporting both traditional serial and
IP / Ethernet trafc

Comprehensive layered security
including AES encryption,
authentication, address ltering and
access control
Monitoring and control requirements are growing in scope, functionality and complexity. Market and
legislative compliance pressures are increasing. Security is paramount. You need a SCADA solution that
evolves seamlessly with your network: enter the Aprisa SR point-to-multipoint SCADA radio. With its
exible future-proof architecture, support for all types of SCADA trafc, defence in depth approach to
security, superior network efciency, ease of management and low total cost of ownership, the Aprisa SR
will quickly become an integral, long-term component of your SCADA network.
ME E T I NG S CADA S GROWI NG CHAL L E NGE S
F UT URE - P ROOF, BACKWARDS - COMPAT I BL E
Designed to cope with market pressures
Emission reduction, energy efciency and renewable energy:
environmental pressures are greater than ever. Performance
monitoring is essential to improve efciency, inform decisions and
minimise downtime. Financial pressures are also growing: equipment
and maintenance costs need to be minimised without impacting
performance
How can your drive for continual improvement and cleaner energy be
supported without negatively impacting costs? By choosing a SCADA
radio solution that provides a low total cost of ownership without
compromising the quality and quantity of the data monitored; that is
simple to install, provides high visibility display information for rapid
decision making, provides simple over-the-air upgrades, control and
diagnostics, has minimal attack and turnaround time to maximise
network efciency, and is easy to manage and congure via an
intuitive GUI. Maximum performance, minimum overhead.
Designed to manage security
Security is now the industrys greatest concern: government bodies are
becoming involved in specifying security performance; remote access
for employees, contractors and vendors is the norm. SCADA systems
need protecting from inherent vulnerabilities and malicious attacks,
ensuring data integrity and validating devices and users
How can you ensure your SCADA networks are safe and secure, now
and into the future? By choosing a SCADA platform that embodies
a defence in depth approach, with comprehensive layered security
including licensed spectrum bands, AES encryption, authentication,
address ltering, access control, segregated trafc ow and rewall
protection; that is fundamentally well designed, manufactured to
exacting quality standards, and robust enough to perform reliably
over varying distances and conditions.
Aprisa SR
ME E T I NG S CADA S GROWI NG CHAL L E NGE S
F UT URE - P ROOF, BACKWARDS - COMPAT I BL E
Designed to meet compliance targets
Governments are becoming increasingly involved in industry
regulation: equipment standards, spectrum refarming, mandatory
SCADA radio channel sizes; and the future direction of standards is still
not known. Addressing these requirements and uncertainties makes
SCADA network design and deployment even more complex
How can you be condent that your SCADA solutions will meet
relevant industry standards, not become obsolete as standards evolve?
By choosing a exible, future-proof, standards-based product,
designed to be easily upgradeable as your needs and the industrys
regulatory standards evolve; that meets all relevant ETSI technical and
performance standards, supports industry-standard communications
protocols, provides support for serial and IP/Ethernet data, is exible
in terms of frequency bands and channel sizes, and is upgradable
over-the-air.
Designed to handle complexity
SCADA is becoming increasingly complex: growing scale and diversity
of monitored infrastructure, increasing data quantity, the need for real
time operational data, closer integration with IT and business processes,
aging infrastructure, plant refurbishment, new infrastructure, mix of
traditional serial data and new IP-based monitoring devices
How can you benet from the best that todays modern SCADA
products have to offer, while still supporting legacy requirements
and preparing for future challenges? By choosing a exible, future-
proof radio platform designed with this very issue in mind; that
supports both serial and IP data, supports a variety of spectrum bands
and channel sizes, integrates with all types of monitoring inputs and
devices, comes in various form factors and multiple architectural
congurations, and gives you full control of an easy-to-manage
SCADA network.
For more information please contact
EMAIL sales@4rf.com
URL www.4rf.com
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broadcasters, international aid organisations, and public safety, military and
security organisations. All 4RF products are optimised for performance in harsh
climates and difcult terrain, and support legacy analogue, serial data, PDH
and IP applications.
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Why choose the Aprisa SR?

Future-proof platform: the
AprisaSR supports traditional serial
and Ethernet / IP trafc in a single
small form-factor box, with no
need for external interfaces or data
converters

Secure: with its defence in
depth approach, the AprisaSR
provides comprehensive, layered
security including AES encryption,
authentication, address ltering and
access control

Flexible: the AprisaSR integrates
into any network topology, with each
unit congurable as a multipoint
base station, remote station or
repeater

Easy to congure and manage:
over-the-air control and diagnostics
are enabled via a simple PC interface,
with low level control from the
central ofce. SNMP support enables
management via third party network
management systems. Remote units
can be managed and congured
without needing to be powered
down

Reliable and robust: the AprisaSR
requires no manual component
tuning and maintains its high power
output over a wide temperature
range

Long-distance operation: with
its high transmit power, low
noise receiver and immunity to
interference, the AprisaSR ensures
reliable, long distance operation in
noisy environments
Who uses the Aprisa SR?
Water and waste utilities use
the AprisaSR to monitor and
regulate a variety of performance
parameters across multiple sites
in their supply and distribution
network, including water ow,
tank and reservoir levels, pipe
pressures and alarm status.
Electric utilities use the
AprisaSR throughout their
generation, storage and
distribution networks, including
monitoring current ow, line
voltage, fault indicators, circuit
breaker operation and other
substation equipment.
Oil and gas companies use
the AprisaSR for both onshore
and offshore applications
throughout their pump jacks,
oil rigs, reneries and storage
tanks, including monitoring ow,
status, pressure, valve position,
temperature, tank levels, and
alarm and security status.