Meeting Utilities’ Needs
3M helps utilities address concerns about safety, service restoration, operating costs and managing assets—difficult challenges when the infrastructure is buried. 3M™ Dynatel™ solutions mark, locate and map buried infrastructure.
- Passive markers operating at a specific frequency for a each utility, available in configurations depending on the depth of the buried infrastructure
- Intelligent active markers utilizing RFID technology that allows “engraving” information to the buried marker (US)
- Locators that read the marker information and allow a precise determination of buried features
- Solutions that transfer information to GPS units to create a digital map of buried infrastructure accessible from any computer
Many utilities have strategies to deploy communications networks alongside existing infrastructures for communications to their customers or to other service providers. 3M offers utilities a broad range of solutions to connect, protect or diagnose optical fiber or copper in their networks:
- Solutions to splice, terminate, connect, identify and manage fibers or copper in central offices or their remote terminals
- Durable and reliable splicing and splice enclosures for their outside plant (aerial or buried)
- Connectivity and diagnostic solutions at the customer premises
