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Winter Storm Uri, Western wildfires, an active Atlantic hurricane season and hundreds of tornadoes created extreme working challenges for utility fieldworkers that underscored the need for highly reliable communications between field crews and operations centers.
Many utilities, recognizing their field crews face increased risks from extreme weather and natural disasters, have outfitted their field crews with exceptionally rugged computing solutions and reliable communication networks that allow real-time communication between field crews and operations centers. For those in the field, it’s literally a matter of life and death…