Mexico partnership for M2M solutions

Edited by the Processingtalk editorial team Oct 13, 2006

Viola systems forms partnership in Mexico to target the petroleum and power sectors, with products that offer unique possibilities for customers to access real-time information in remote field devices

Viola Systems, a leader in industrial-grade wireless M2M connectivity solutions, has today formally announced strategic partners for the Mexican market.

CFE, the Mexican state electricity company, as well as Pemex, the state owned petroleum company, possess thousands of switches and valves critical to the supply of energy in this large and fast growing country.

Viola products offer unique possibilities for our customers to access real-time information in remote previously inaccessible field devices through a field-proven, reliable and always-on communication solution, that suits the Mexican telecommunications system.

"We proudly welcome our new, distinguished business partner in Mexico: Teledata Technologies in Mexico City.

Teledata has unique expertise across various industry verticals.

More importantly, they are actively involved in various modernisation projects in the utility sector," says Mika Marjalaakso, Vice President of Business Development at Viola Systems.

"Viola enters Mexico at the right time with unique set of products.

For utilities, especially the Viola Arctic IEC-104 and Modbus Gateways look very interesting," begins Antti Linden, consultant for Viola in Spanish speaking markets.

He explains: "Mexico keeps updating its countrywide network for vital infrastructure, like telecom, petroleum, power and highways.

He stresses, that for Mexican conditions it is important that the Viola M2M Solution is operator-independent; that means it allows the end-customer to choose the best telecom provider in a particular area by eliminating the need to obtain the costly private Access Point Name (APN) from a mobile operator.

Private APN is usually needed in order to arrange fixed, static IP addresses for field devices but the Viola M2M Solution can do this without the private APN.

Antonio Rodriguez, CEO of Teledata, is optimistic for the new partnership and describes: "This partnership with Viola allows us to offer our customers field-proven, robust and secure wireless M2M connectivity solutions that are based on new wireless technologies such as GPRS / EDGE / UMTS.

For our customers this means improved productivity and savings in maintenance and operation costs".

Teledata has set up a test system in their premises and welcomes warmly all interested companies to contact them for demonstration purposes.