Ascom ensures the mobility and security of EDF employees within their sites in demanding environments

In 2011, a long-standing relationship with the leading producer and supplier of electricity in France and worldwide, at a hydraulic power plant in Martinique. Management particularly wanted to improve the safety and mobility of teams at industrial sites and optimise technical alarm management. “Today in our ‘industrial sector’ activity, EDF acts as customer number 1 for Ascom France,” said Ascom Sales Manager Eric Reynaud.

Ascom quickly adapts to demanding work environments for implementing safety solutions. In 2015 and 2017, several projects were launched to meet employee work constraints and guarantee their safety through the intelligent management of alarm reports, a system that has become obsolete at EDF.

Many employees are on the move or isolated: maintenance technicians, production control agents, etc. The Ascom DECT mobile device is associated with a software platform in a double objective: having a global view in real-time of all critical flows and communicating them to the right person at the right time, thus ensuring the safety of collaborators, machines and infrastructure linked to phenomena such as floods, fires, low water levels, and that of automata in connection with site production.