Sectors we Serve

Scotia Radio have been providing two way radio and walkie-talkie radio sales, hire, maintenance and servicing to a wide range of industry sectors from our very beginning. We have experience in radio communications solutions in most sectors but are particularly strong in the provision of walkie-talkie hire, sales, maintenance and servicing to the following industries/sectors:

• Two Way Radio for Healthcare
• Two Way Radio for Events
• Two Way Radio for Retail
• Two Way Radio for Security
• Two Way Radio for Taxi Companies
• Two Way Radio for Utilities and Transport

Two Way Radio for Healthcare

Healthcare environments such as hospitals, doctors’ surgeries, day centres and clinics demand reliable coverage to ensure quick response times and accurate communications.

Safety for Lone Workers

Many staff in healthcare environments work alone and as such can be put in situations where they are vulnerable. One remedy for this is to provide staff with analogue hand held two-way radios with panic buttons. If the panic button is pressed a signal is immediately sent to all radios in the vicinity alerting staff that there is a problem. The radio will also send the alert to landline and mobile phones, e-mail and public address systems.

Multiple Voice and Data Channels

Large facilities such as hospitals require multiple channels for voice and data and for this we can provide digital or trunked radio systems which have a variety of benefits:

• Tracking of staff using GPS
• Alarms for lone workers and man down situations
• Seamless merging with building alarm and management systems
• Auto-dialling to emergency services
• One-to-one calls
• Voice messaging
• Remote logging on and off
• Deactivation and reactivation is radio is lost or stolen
• Contact with outside telephones

Safe Around Care Equipment

A lot of hospital equipment does not operate properly if high power devices such as two-way radios are used nearby. However, Scotia Radio can provide low power systems which use distributed antennae. This gives staff strong, reliable coverage to communicate throughout the hospital whether from below ground, upper floors or grounds and can also communicate with emergency helicopter services.

Efficient Communication Between Management and Staff

It is vital that hospital management know where their porters and maintenance crews are, and what their workload and availability is. Our systems include dispatch solutions giving management the ability to co-ordinate workers with tasks and ensure an efficient communication system throughout all work areas.

Two Way Radio for Taxi Communication

Taxi operators, drivers and control room staff heavily rely on their two-way communication system for bookings, communication of information, and health and safety, so it should be reliable, give excellent coverage, and simple and efficient to use.

No matter the size of your taxi fleet, Scotia Radio can install complete in-car two-way radio systems that provide coverage over very large areas using repeaters, have panic buttons, GPS tracking and can produce detailed audit reports.

Two Way Radio for Events

The event and corporate hospitality sectors require communications that are quick, efficient and discreet for communication of security information, crowd management and health and safety.

Whether your event is indoors or outdoors, Scotia Radio can provide analogue or digital two-way radio systems that work over large areas, and if your event is outdoors and covers a very large area, we can install repeaters to improve radio coverage.

With security and health and safety a priority at large public events it is vital that two-way radio communication between staff is carried out discreetly and unhampered, so with this in mind we can provide radios with earpieces, a text messaging facility, caller ID, panic buttons and man down alarms.

Two Way Radio for Retail

Managing communication in shops, shopping centres and town centres require reliable and efficient systems to ensure smooth operations in a variety of situations.

Single shops can benefit from licence-free or analogue two-way radios as they enable staff to communicate from floor-to-floor or different areas on the same floor with the added bonus of discreet communications with the use of caller ID, ear-pieces and discreet microphones.

Shopping malls and town/city centre shopping complexes require an even more robust radio communication system. One ideal solution is to use a digital or trunked system which uses repeater base stations and antennae to provide the strongest and most reliable coverage. With this system shop management can react swiftly to issues of safety and security.

Monitoring Safety and Security

Our systems also empower management to communicate with security and maintenance teams with built in monitoring software which includes lone worker and man down alerts and GPS tracking. It will also record all staff communications including times, positions, voice traffic and data traffic.

We can also link individual shops within town centres or shopping malls with integration to police stations and officers and CCTV monitoring centres.

Two Way Radio for Security

Security staff face one of the toughest jobs around and one of the biggest benefits of two-way radios is that they are a means of contact with help when it is needed.

From management to employees, our two-way radio systems give constant peace of mind but especially in dangerous situations.

For guarding small areas such as industrial estates or building sites, a simple analogue two-way radio system will suffice. Our systems can include panic buttons and lone worker and man down features, audit trail recording and work well with GPS tracking.

For larger areas that require constant, highly discreet surveillance we can install two-way radio systems that have repeaters in vehicles for staff who work off site to ensure coverage is never lost, voice encryption, earpieces and microphones, as well as disguised antennae.

Two Way Radio for Utilities

Utilities complexes such as power stations, wind farms, hydro-electric stations, oil refineries and oil rigs must have two-way systems that provide instant communication that covers the entire site.

Most of these types of installation have structures that would normally impede a simple two-way system. However, Scotia Radio can design a system incorporating digital and analogue and digital trunked radio systems which use distributed antennae to give clear, site-wide coverage with no black spots.

There is also contingency for power failure with back-up batteries and automated channel changeover modules which keep the system operational.

Control Room Efficiency

As the control room is the hub of any large installation, its communication system must be capable of enabling control room staff to communicate quickly and efficiently with management and teams of workers. We can provide a two-way radio system that provides one-to-one calling, group calling and text messaging utilising digital or trunked radio systems keeping the control room operating at optimum efficiency.

Two-Way Radio Safety Features

Site workers are kept safe by two-way radio features such as lone worker and man down alarms, caller ID and GPS tracking, and there are a variety of automated process and alarms that can connect immediately with the appropriate emergency service giving all staff peace of mind.

Two-Way Communication in High Decibel Areas

In power generating complexes such as power stations, radio communications can be severely hampered by high volumes and background noise. We can provide two-way radios specifically designed for these environments which include protective, noise-cancelling headsets and hands free operation which are unobtrusive and easy to use including confined areas and for staff wearing cumbersome clothing.