What a project looks like.

The situation

A producer runs a dozen batteries and compressor sites across the Montney. Some have cellular routers inside steel buildings, a few have Starlink, and one relies on a radio link nobody has looked at in years. Operations finds out a site is down when the SCADA screen goes stale.

What we'd do

1. Survey every site: current link, signal, power and monthly cost.
2. Pick a primary and backup link per site, including a radio hop where a tower is in reach.
3. Move antennas outside and add dual-WAN routers with automatic failover.
4. Put every site on monitoring with alerts to the control room.

The situation

A 250-bed camp has consumer access points in the hallways and one internet link. Wi-Fi is fine during the day and unusable from 7 pm, when crews come off shift and start streaming. Complaints go to the camp manager, who has no way to see what is happening.

What we'd do

1. Survey coverage room by room and measure the link under evening load.
2. Replace hallway units with access points sized for room density.
3. Separate crew, staff and camp systems onto their own networks.
4. Add per-user bandwidth limits and a guest portal staff can manage.

The situation

An oilfield service company keeps rental equipment in a large laydown yard outside town. After a theft, they find the two existing cameras face the shop door, record to a box in the office, and keep three days of footage.

What we'd do

1. Walk the yard and mark gates, high-value equipment and blind spots.
2. Add solar-powered cameras on the far fence line, linked back by radio.
3. Put cameras on their own network and recorder, with remote viewing tuned to the link.
4. Set retention to 30 days and alerts for motion at the gate after hours.

The situation

A gas facility network grew over fifteen years. PLCs, cameras, office PCs and contractor laptops all sit on one subnet behind unmanaged switches. A contractor plugs in an infected laptop and the HMI slows to a crawl.

What we'd do

1. Map every device and switch, and build the first accurate diagram.
2. Replace unmanaged switches in panels with managed, industrial-rated ones.
3. Split control, camera, business and contractor traffic into separate VLANs behind a firewall.
4. Document configs, back them up, and hand the credentials to the operator.