A leading GSM Service Provider in Egypt requested an enterprise-wide GIS solution that could efficiently boost cooperation between the different departments and coordinate their efforts in resolving network complaints and outage in different areas, as well as creating a control mechanism to measure efficiency on responding to network complaints correctly.
One of the leading and most prestigious banks in Egypt, founded in 1920, requested the establishment of a secure and scalable satellite based communication network that enables customers in a number of rural areas to perform secure transactions through Automatic Teller Machines (ATMs) to save them the trouble of visiting a distant branch. The requested network had to connect several ATMs that were planned to be installed in geographically dispersed locations all over Egypt where no terrestrial networks are available to the data center at the bank’s headquarter located in Cairo.
Celtel Niger assigned to Alkan CIT the rollout of several new sites. The challenge was to overcome the lack of essential materials, poor infrastructure and limited transportation networks required for construction and site roll out within a limited time frame.
Health, Safety and Environment (HSE) are becoming increasingly important to the sustainability of the Oil & Gas Sector, one of the most important key factors of which is the safety of the fleet of vehicles either carrying crude oil along its path from the drilling and exploration sites to its refineries of carrying Health, Safety and Environment (HSE) are becoming increasingly important to the sustainability of the Oil & Gas Sector, one of the most important key factors of which is the safety of the fleet of vehicles either carrying crude oil along its path from the drilling and exploration sites to its refineries of carrying the teams of engineers and technicians between on shore sites and their head quarters and office premises in town,
Utilizing state of the art technologies to deploy the new IT infrastructure of the Egyptian Universities Network (EUN) - Head quarters, to facilitate collaboration, integration and information sharing over a secure network
Remote industrial centers like oil-drilling platforms require reliable, high-speed, broadband connectivity that supports a variety of applications and regularly sending weather, Geological and other types of data from rigs to the shore in real time - as video data or conference-call audio - for critical analysis by scientists in addition to voice and fax services, e-mail, web browsing. Petrobel, the leading Oil & Gas Company needed a reliable wireless connectivity solution that links its dispersed 15 offshore rigs to the company’s headquarter located in Port Said.
Management of national water resources has always been a challenge, Damietta water company requested a reliable communication solution that enables connecting 19 remote sites to the head quarters
The “While in Egypt Stay Connected”, was designed to expand connectivity in the Egyptian tourism sector. The project was the first in Egypt to deploy WiMAX technology for commercial usage.
Videoconferencing technologies, enable organizations in all business fields to hold secure distant meetings between colleagues in goegraphically dispersed locations as if they were in the same room
One of the major leading International Oil & Gas companies, operating in Egypt, has assigned to Alkan the design and deployment of a highly efficient VSAT Network to facilitate communication between head quarters and offshore rigs
In Abu Dhabi, government entities have invested heavily in GIS technology and geospatial data to meet their own organizational needs. This timely collection, preservation, and distribution of relevant geospatial data are critical to maintain the emirate's spatial data infrastructure and ensure the smooth running of its many governmental and commercial activities.
Jeddah Municipality wanted to automate its Urban and surveying services. The municipality wanted to achieve its goals by adding geographic data and communicating with different users through the implementation of a GIS system in the field of Urban and Surveying.
Today, our communities are exposed to threats, way beyond natural disasters or catastrophic accidents, which require full-scale emergency assessment, mitigation, preparation, response, and recovery.
Every year, GDWER receives thousands of calls in its service center from people reporting issues such as burst pipes and interrupted water supply. The directorate has a duty to respond quickly to these incidents. However, it wasn't always easy to establish precisely where the problem had occurred. Previously, GDWER had islands of technology and silos of information around the directorate. Data was not shared and was often duplicated.
Libyan Registry Authority (LRA) required an advanced Land administration system (LAS) in order to enable sharing of up-to-date, reliable and detailed information on land ownership and land use across all government departments and agencies to support the development of strategies, policies and mechanisms for sustainable land use, assessment of the state of economy and collecting property taxes.
Mobily needed to coordinate its business priorities and network assets throughout their lifecycle, acknowledging the rapid changing nature of the Telecom industry, and the importance of finding, managing, and analyzing data quickly and effectively to make a strategic difference. Also, Mobily aims to work on increasing revenue, reducing costs, and accelerating speed to market for new telecommunication products.
One of the toughest challenges that faced a leading regional telecom operator was to efficiently link BTSs installed in two highly dense residential/commercial zones together in order to cover an important zone which serves a shopping complex, residential buildings and a strategic touristic area. The wireless link was meant to cross different barriers including buildings, trees and other natural & artificial barriers interrupting the path between the two BTSs.
Vodafone Egypt - one of the largest Mobile Telecommunication Service Providers in Egypt- that relies on GIS to streamline the business required a GIS solution that aids in streamlining the enterprise applications, helps in resolving network complaints falling in outage, and creates a control mechanism to measure efficiency of response to customer complaints relating to network issues.
Schlumberger Information Solutions (SIS) assigned to Alkan the design and deployment of a high efficient VSAT Network for the IEOC (a major Oil & Gas company in Egypt that represents Enni Group in Italy) the sought network would connect multiple offshore rigs in the Mediterranean and the Red Sea to the head quarter and provide secure reliable and efficient communication to facilitate operations on the rigs on a 24/7 basis
In the past few years, Al Hassa Municipality had been suffering from the absence of a unified system that supports their multiple business needs, which all came to an end with Alkan & ESRI's integrated tracking and fleet monitoring solution that enabled location based analysis for the various functions of the municipality
As this age is most prominently viewed as the age of information, the utilization of the advancing information technology has become a necessity. In collaboration with the Ministry of Communication and Information Technology (MCIT), The National Council for Childhood and Motherhood (NCCM) aimed to deploy a system of information and technology that fosters spreading awareness of social problems taken on by the council. The vision of the council included granting rural children the right to access information that would help them shape their opinions, participate in solving their problems, develop their skills through technological interaction and communication and protect them from the Internet.
After breaking the record for the fastest vehicle crossing the Great Sand Sea, and under the auspices of the Egyptian Tourism Promotion Authority, the Egyptian adventurer, Hesham Nessim, decided to take a new challenge and be the first adventurer to join Guinness World Records for making the fastest trip in crossing the Western Desert using one vehicle driving from Siwa to Abu Simbel. The journy was planned to start from Siwa Oasis in the far north west of Egypt, covering a distance of approximately 1370 km till the ending point in Abu Simbel which is situated in the far east of Egypt.
A leading carrier wanted to perform quality monitoring audits for international calls, the results of which have successfully identified the fault locations and dramatically helped improving the service levels.
One of the leading telecom operators in Sudan had the need to extend CDMA Voice and data services to different remote cities that lacked the basic communication infrastructure required to support such services, where on Fiber Optics/terrestrial links or Microwave links were available. The main challenge was to plan, execute and enable the required services within a limited time frame.
Sonatel, Senegal's leading telecom operator, serving more than 3.5 million subscribers, wanted to introduce new services welcome SMSs to roamers landing in Senegal upon their arrival, wishing them a pleasant stay and providing them with useful information that gives them better experience during their stay like information about local transportation, emergency numbers, restaurants, attractions, banks, and most importantly on how to reach customer service in case of having difficulties on making calls.
Mobile broadband connectivity is becoming increasingly important for users everywhere whether for personal or business purposes. Downtime, inadequate mobile coverage and interruptions while running online applications could seriously impact any business not to mention the daily operations of a leading telecom operator within its own premises; Vodafone Ghana needed a solution that totally eliminates the problem of inadequate internal coverage within its head quarters in Ghana.
Egypt has recently embarked on a grand mission to reform the education process, redesign the learning objectives and develop competencies aided by state of the art technologies both for teachers' training and as pedagogical tool in classrooms no matter how geographically dispersed they are. Ministry of Education in Egypt (MOE) requested a solution that enables interactive online collaboration between the head office in Cairo and its affiliated remote branches/sites, in addition to conducting online training thus eliminating the need to travel.