Case Study: Jamaica Public Service Company achieves an intelligent, more reliable grid with Cambium Networks

Jamaica Public Service Company Relies on Cambium Networks to Build Smart Grid

Jamaica Public Service Company (JPS), the sole electricity distributor in Jamaica serving over 680,000 customers, needed a ubiquitous communications backbone to modernize its grid and tie together geographically dispersed devices—automated switches, AMI meters, smart streetlights, IoT sensors and other intelligent electronic devices. To deliver a scalable, flexible Field Area Network, JPS selected Cambium Networks and its next-generation wireless technology (a point-to-multipoint radio solution operating in the 3300–3900 MHz band).

Cambium Networks deployed a private broadband, point-to-multipoint wireless fabric with repeater sites and access points for IEDs, centrally manageable to cover the island’s roughly 14,000 km of distribution and transmission lines. The Cambium solution provided a more reliable, cost-effective communications layer that enabled JPS’s grid automation and smart-city initiatives—supporting AMI, fault indicators, smart streetlights and other devices—while positioning the utility for future expansion.

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