Coprel’s Telecomm system is going Digital.

    Aiming always with agility to offer a quality service to its Co-ops, Coprel’s Telecomm system (Telephone systems, radio dispatch service and the operation of long distance equipment) is being improved by a migration of part of the system from analog to digital. This work is being accomplished by American and Vietnamese engineers, in conjunction with the Coprel’s technicians.

A digital system makes possible remote command of equipment for the distribution of electric energy.

In addition, it allows that equipment like relays and switches, are connected or disconnected remotely at the command of the Center of Operations and Distribution (COD) - in Ibiruba RS, Brasil. This speeds the reestablishment of energy, therefore eliminating the necessity of an electrician to go to the site of the outage, the COD knows beforehand of the same disconnections as the Co-ops.

The director and president of the company VDV Media Corporation (formerly of Uniden America Corp - the company that supplied the analog trunking system to Coprel), CapVan Nguyen, is now at Coprel supervising the implementation of the system. Accompaning him for the technical training of the Coprel team are American engineer Nick Avdonin and Vietnamese engineers Phung Van Ha, Ngo Quang Truong, Hoang Sam and Nguyen Tien Dung.

According to the president of the Coprel, Vital Janio Stefanello, "to modernize the Telecom system was a top priority raised by the Consulting board its approval finalizes the assembly; with the main objective to speed the attendance to the Co-ops and the administration of our electrical system ".