A brief history of NET

WORK SAFER. HEAR CLEARER. PERFORM BETTER. MOTOTRBO R7Ex ATEX and IECEx certified digital portable radios provide high quality communications so teams can work more safely in potentially explosive environments. With loud, clear audio plus a range of advanced features, R7Ex helps workers hear calls and share messages more clearly, boosting performance, increasing productivity and reducing downtime.

Founded in Aberdeen as an SME in 1994 by owner Mark Allan, the company has evolved under his leadership from its early beginnings into a familiar industry name in the North East of Scotland, providing technical solutions and products to a global customer base.

The NET team had the incredible opportunity to work on the Karmol Africa vessel in Senegal to revolutionise its onboard communication system, ensuring complete coverage on 2 UHF channels for seamless day-to-day and emergency communications.

With experience of manufacturing and supplying ATEX / Ex crane radio systems for over 20 years, we launch our new EX Dual-band Crane Radio System. Building on our proven pedigree and experience to offer Customers the latest digital technologies, enhancing operations and providing best in class reliability and safety to support offshore operations. The Crane Radio System is optimised for use with offshore cranes thatare located in a Zone 1 area and where space inside the crane cab is limited.

NET has a full order book for December 2019 and January 2020 that includes surveys, upgrades and maintenance visits.

NET upgrades radios repeaters and hand portable radios on five major North Sea platforms and jack-up rigs with the latest Motorola Mototrbo systems.

A new PCB interface developed by NET allows different types of headsets and microphones to work with different radios/radio inputs. This intelligent solution solved a major problem for a major oil and gas operator with a FPSO in South Korea. The PCB was later adopted into NET’s own manufactured crane radio systems as standard.

A major tender is won with power stations in Northern Ireland to design and install a system including digital Motorola radios, with broadband connection to each power station, including tracking of personnel and a safety facility for lone workers.

A university spread over several acres finally had full coverage thanks for a new digital radio system from NET.

NET develops a critical communication system to cover a pipeline production area of 7km in North Scotland, using Motorola base station and microwave links.

NET achieves IS09001 quality accreditation. NET becomes FPAL approved. NET achieves Motorola Gold Dealer Status.

A first for marine communications, NET developed a now popular communication solution which allowed ships to talk to nearby vessels using their own UHF band and VHF band.

We always love a challenge, and when a major marine company asked us to provide a solution to allow people to communicate between the construction vessel deep inside the turret on a Floating Production and Storage Offloading vessel (FPSO) we developed and certified a hazardous area repeater system.

Installation of Airband equipment for major helicopter operator in Aberdeen and Shetland, including ground to air and iridium satellite telephones.

With some clients now with us for almost 20 years, our hazardous audio kit business has grown. There are now 360 kits with over 100 out on hire at any one time, 365 days a year.

Netlogger 2 – Next generation in tracking showing locations on the London A to Z map.

Procom Unit – ‘black box’ interface for ship captains to place orders using onboard mobile phones.