Case Study: Global Neighbors keeps Myanmar hospital power flowing with Secomea

Global Neighbors Uses Secomea’s Sitemanager To Keep Electricity Flowing At Hospital

Global Neighbors, a Canadian charity building medical and community facilities in Myanmar and western Thailand, faced the challenge of keeping electricity flowing uninterrupted at Taw Nor Teaching Hospital, a remote 24-bed hospital outside Myanmar’s grid. With solar panels, batteries, and a diesel backup generator all needing careful balancing, the team needed a way to monitor and adjust power usage remotely. They turned to Secomea for a remote access and monitoring solution.

Secomea provided a gateway that Global Neighbors installed at the hospital to monitor and control the solar and generator power system in real time. Using Secomea’s Access Client from 11,000 km away in Canada, Glenn Lett could make remote adjustments and keep the hospital powered 24/7, even during outages thanks to the gateway being wired into the battery system. The result was reliable, robust operation, fast communication with round-trip times around 460–484 ms, and maximized use of solar energy for essential medical services.

Global Neighbors

Glenn Lett

Global Neighbors’ Professional Engineer