Anglicare Care Aged Care Facility – Minto Gardens.
The major benefit of the GPON installation is lower IT capital costs. Anglicare was able to significantly reduce the amount of cabling required for the expansion and saved money by constructing one communications room instead of two.
GPON cabling reduces IT capital costs and ongoing maintenance expenses.
Customer
Anglican Aged Care
Location
Minto, NSW
Challenges
The recently completed $98m Minto development for Anglicare saw the delivery of new mixed seniors living, comprising 220 retirement living apartments across six buildings, as well as a 100 bed residential aged care home.
The aged care home features a specialised dementia care wing, commercial kitchen, office and administration space for staff and a 43 space basement car park.
Also included in the project scope was a large community centre for residents, extensive ground level parking, café, internal and external communal spaces, outdoor amenities to promote health and social interaction, extensive landscaping featuring a kids’ play area, civil works for an internal road to service the village and enabling works to facilitate future plans for an additional 125 apartments over four buildings.
PON Projects were awarded the contract to design, construct and maintain an Integrated Communications Network (ICN) a GPON fibre cabled solution.
Our Solution
PON Projects (NSW) worked closely with Anglicare Aged Care and their IT project team on the expansion at their Dapto facility.
The project delivery team consisted of:
Hills Nurse Call Solutions
Hansen Yuncken Construction
Kerfoot Electrical Contractors
PON Projects installed a GPON network that delivers a wide variety of IP services to residents over a single, integrated fibre optic cable for this project.
The following ICN services were cabled by a GPON fibre solution.
1. Access Control Solution
2. Any – IP Ethernet Solution
3. Audio Visual Solutions
4. BMS – Building Management Solutions
5. CCTV – Closed Circuit TV Solutions
6. Data – Internet
7. Electricity Meters / Management Solutions
8. Foxtel
9. FTA – Free to Air TV Services
10. Gas Metering Solution
11. Intercom System
12. Intruder Detection Solution
13. Lighting Control Solution
14. MATV Services
15. Nurse Call
16. Security Networks
17. Solar Management Solutions
18. Water Management Solutions
19. Voice
20. Vocera Nurse Call System
21. Wi-Fi
The major benefit of the GPON installation is lower IT capital costs. Anglicare was able to significantly reduce the amount of cabling required for the expansion and saved money by constructing one communications room instead of two.
Anglicare Aged Care – Minto Gardens now have low cost, future-proof GPON technology that will become the hub for all future expansions.
