Broadcast Tower Remote Monitoring Services

Remote Monitoring and Emergency Service

Tower Communication and Services offers manditory 24/7 Monitoring of your tower site required by manditory regulations of the Federal Communciations Commission. 

All critical site functions are fully audited such as remote security and access control, battery levels, tower lighting alarms, air conditioner control, fire & smoke alarms, video and camera control and reports with event Logs.  Your site status can be monitored directly via our web site.

We monitor:

• Power failures extinguish the tower lights in addition to removing power from the tenant's equipment.  Standby batteries power our monitoring equipment allowing us to continue to monitor the problem.  Once power is restored, we are notified.
• Strobe Conditions - day, night, red, white, failures, and restorations
• Beacon Status - on / off, flashing / steady
• Marker Status - failures and restorations

The reports received by TCS and logged into our database. We maintain full audits of operating equipment, failure and restoration events.  Priority 1 incidents require NOTAMs within 30 minutes of occurrence and generate an immediate notification to the responsible party.

FCC reulations 47 CFR Part 17.47(a), 47 CFR Part 17.48, and 47 CFR Part 17.49.

• See Lighting requirements stated on the Aeronautical Study:  **DETERMINATION OF NO HAZARD TO NAVIGATION**
• See FAA Advisory Circular 70/7460-1K Change 1
• Any failure of those lights will be reported to the responsible party designated by the tower owner.
  
• Failure of lighting that is a hazard to air navigation will be reported to the FAA within the appropriate time frame.
• Raw data regarding each report is archived for 12 months.