Information & Communications Technology

Virtually all of our assignments involve the various facets of ICT.  Some examples are listed here, but you'll see relevant projects listed elsewhere on this site, for instance, in the areas of Systems & Software Engineering, Acquisition and Tender Evaluation.

Project Bonfire:  Upgrade of corporate PC environment for DSD

Remote provided the services for specification, tender evaluation and project management for the upgrade of this PC environment, accredited to TS level.  Resulted in the installation of 700+ PCs and 20+ servers.  Involved early adoption of Microsoft Vista.

Softel Systems:  Telecommunications Carrier - Traffic Monitoring

Australian telecommunications companies are required, under the Telecommunications Act (1979), to meet various regulatory requirements to retain their licence to act as a telecommunications carrier. Softel Systems provides these requisite capabilities for the emerging mobile packet data for a major Australian telecommunications company.

Remote has provided assistance in the development, implementation and support of the Softel Systems system known as LIPs. Activities have included specification of the interface between LIPs and a related system under development within the Telco, production of the LIPs user manual, LIPs Site Specific Notes and the development of the service level agreement and performance metrics for the LIPs system.

IT Services Department, Hong Kong SAR Government:  Security Procedures & Policy Review

This assignment involved independent review and augmentation of reports produced by information security consultants for the Information Technology Services Department of the Hong Kong SAR Government. The examination and revision covered aspects including policies, standards, procedures, security management framework, and the roles, responsibilities and reporting arrangements for various bodies including the IT Services Department's security working team, the organisation's ISIRT (Information Security Incident Response Team) and the security steering committee.

Major International Airport:  Airport Pavement Management System

Remote, teamed with engineering consultants Connell Wagner and companies, has recently completed the specification of an Airport Pavement Management System (APaMS) for a major international airport. This airport has extensive air and land pavement assets and requires a better means to conduct the management and maintenance. An integrated product is to be produced, supporting management, maintenance, economic and technical analyses and forecasting. This is to support the recording of all historical pavement data (construction, maintenance, testing, inspections, costs, etc) against the airport configuration, with full spatial data support.

ARRB Transport Research Limited:  Road Network-Level Survey Management System

Remote provided IT development services for ARRB Transport Research to provide a data management system to support total road survey data for national-level surveys. ARRB Transport Research was contracted to survey 37,000km of roads throughout Indonesia, collecting information including road geometry data (centreline, gradient, horizontal curvature, vertical curvature, etc), road condition data (road roughness, texture, rutting, deflection, pavement depth, etc), and ongoing digital image collection. This data was collected by multiple instrumented vehicles, travelling at highway speeds.

In its initial project, the system was additionally required to export database files for incorporation into the Inter-urban Road Management System (IRMS) Database used by the Indonesian Bina Marga Roads Department. The completed database comprised 30Gb of processed data defining the attributes at any position throughout the road network, plus 16 million images.

Efforts performed entailed the project management, specification, design, implementation and documentation of the database management system for this data collection exercise.

This successful project resulted in a contract extension by the Indonesian Government, for the survey of a further 20,000km of roads in additional Indonesian provinces.

Nortel Networks:  Merrill Lynch Pan-Asia Network

Remote provided consultancy services in the development of an Acceptance Test Plan for Nortel Networks, who in turn were contracted by Cable & Wireless Global, the prime contractor implementing a voice and data network for Merrill Lynch throughout the Asia-Pacific region. This network spans Australia, Japan, Hong Kong, Singapore, the Philippines, China, Taiwan, Indonesia and links to the US, covering more than 20 Merrill Lynch sites.

ARRB Transport Research Limited:  WIMLINK

Remote was requested to provide Project Management services to ARRB Transport Research in the development of ARRB’s WIMLINK automated data collection system. This system is used by State Road Authorities to conduct ‘weigh-in-motion’ surveys of vehicles as they traverse the road system, and is used in numerous locations within Australia, sometimes in quite isolated regions. Remote, upon involvement, was able to turn around what had been a faltering project.