GE Digital Energy - MDS is the world's leading single-source, end-to-end wireless solution provider, with over 20 years of experience and over 1 million units installed. MDS solutions implement future-proof technologies that provide our customers with infrastructure savings, exceptional reliability, and the longest in-service life.

Our wireless devices are long-range, secure, and rugged to survive extreme conditions, delivering the lowest possible cost of ownership. With highly secure point-to-point and point-to-multipoint solutions supporting a wide range of frequencies, MDS can take you from the first meter to the last mile.

Industrially Hardened

From wellhead monitoring to utility substation automation, our wireless devices are packaged for industrial environments and have been rated and tested to harsh industrial specifications, including extreme operating temperatures (-40C to +70C) and Class 1/Div 2 hazardous location approvals.

Application Flexibility

Our wireless networks carry serial and IP/Ethernet traffic, plus analog and digital I/O signals connected directly to field devices and sensors, accommodating an extensive array of industrial protocols. We offer both fixed and mobile solutions for private and public infrastructures, with secure point-to-point and point-to-multipoint solutions for voice, data, and video applications, in frequencies from 150 MHz to 38 GHZ, and at speeds up to 800Mbps.

Reliable & Scalable

Our wireless devices provide reliable communications and are future-proof, backward compatible, and long-range, up to 60 miles, so customers can use existing networks and expand when necessary. A single MDS infrastructure can support multiple applications simultaneously and independently.

Secure

Our devices offer standards-based encryption and advanced security features including authentication, verification, dynamic key rotation, data integrity verification, provisioning lists, redundancy, quality-of-service, and anti-jamming technologies.

Complete Solutions

We offer a full range of accessories and engineering services for projects from custom environmental enclosures to complete turnkey wireless solutions. We provide a range of wireless services including site surveys, computer-generated path analyses, frequency coordination, licensing, network design, installation & support, and in-depth training.

Data Acquisition Our devices offer long-range communications for asset monitoring that provide signal regeneration of discrete I/O, precise timing for controller data transmission, and support for multiple protocols.

LAN Extension We have the wireless solutions to extend your network into the field, with full networking support for IP-based PLCs/RTUs, video surveillance, and field force automation.

Backhaul No need to bury expensive fiber cables to carry high volume data, voice or video back to your operations center. We have high capacity, high-speed wireless backhaul solutions that support up to 800 Mbps.

Commercial Services

The MDS Wireless Services Group (WSG) offers a wide range of services to assist our customers with their wireless communications and networking requirements. We have the expertise and experience to complete large end-to-end projects. Our advanced network design capabilities and engineering services assists customers with their wireless communications challenges.

Wireless System Development
Our team of highly-qualified engineers manage the design, installation, integration, commissioning, and training for complete end-to-end projects across the globe. The experience we have gained in over 30 countries allows us to ensure optimal wireless system performance in the most diverse environments for both greenfield and upgrade/retrofit installations.

Training: In-class and On-site
We provide customers with the high-quality training and certifications required to be safe, efficient and successful. Our courses cover topics such as the fundamentals of wireless communications and product training. We also offer on-site training at customer facilities and instructor-led Virtual Classroom training. Customers can learn at their own pace with our online web-based training.

Engineering Services
Our engineers have extensive domestic and international experience with commercial, industrial, and government systems, offering a full range of engineering services:

• Site Surveys
• Network Design
• Equipment Installation
• Path Analysis and Propagation Studies

Racks & Custom Enclosures
Our equipment integration designs are developed with detailed attention to equipment placement and accessibility. Offerings include both standard and custom packages for wireless device integration with networking accessories. Standards-based procedures for both equipment integration and testing ensure that wireless systems are robust and future-proof.

Accessories

To ensure our customers get the maximum performance from their wireless devices, we provide a complete line of reliable and cost-effective accessories that are fully tested to perform at optimal levels, and maintain product warranties. We simplify wireless system design by providing a convenient single source for ordering.

Solutions across multiple industries

Transportation
We provide wide area coverage over miles upon miles of highway and track worldwide for condition monitoring, signaling, switch control, and linking of infrastructure control locations. This includes remote locomotive control, dispatch systems and traffic monitoring.

Public Safety
First responders require mobile data access for dispatch systems, backup systems, voting receivers, simulcast systems, last-mile access, and backhaul between control centers and access points. Our installations include sophisticated mobile data solutions, and backhauling voice and data traffic for public safety entities.

Heavy Industrial
The Petrochemical, Mining and Metals and Agriculture industries leverage our wireless solutions to extend LANs for industrial control, monitor in-plant assets for optimization and regulatory compliance, and cost-effectively implement safety and security systems.

Energy
We provide electric utilities worldwide with wireless solutions to monitor and control vital processes in the development and transmission of electricity. Our wireless devices help monitor demand, load balancing, pole top switching, isolation of faults, and control of reclosure switches.

Oil & Gas
We provide the industry with wireless solutions for monitoring and controlling vital production and delivery processes. Our wireless devices allow users to control and monitor wellheads and pipelines remotely, respond to system demands, and deal with emergency situations.

Water & Wastewater
We provide a full range of wireless devices for many applications including monitoring vital water flows, and sending control signals to pipes, valves and pumps. Our customers rely on MDS industrial hardened wireless devices to withstand their harsh process environments.