Meteor Communications (Europe)

Meteor Communications (Europe)

About

Meteor Communications (Europe) Ltd (MCE) was formed in 1986 with a remit to establish a Meteor Burst Radio network across Europe. It was originally a joint venture between Meteor Communications Corporation and Pharos Marine (Automatic Power).

OFCOM granted MCE licences for dedicated Meteor Radio frequencies covering the UK and surrounding waters and in 1987 the first Meteor Radio Master Station was established, near Newbury in Berkshire. Over time this has grown to a network of five Master Stations which give comprehensive coverage of the UK and surrounding waters.

In early years Meteor became established as a provider to Water Companies and the National Rivers Authority, providing not just telemetry but a whole range of services to the emerging environmental monitoring market. Within a short space of time a network of sites was in place across the UK covering Water Quality, Air Quality and Flow.

The company expanded into other areas, providing SCADA to offshore gas platforms for AMOCO and BP, and went on to develop one of the first vehicle tracking networks in the Scottish highlands.

The company has always operated on a strong technical basis, and the majority of staff are from engineering backgrounds. This has always been a key feature of the company and ensures that customer requirements are clearly understood and correctly implemented.

Following a management buyout in 2007 the company is now employee owned, and benefits from the flexibility this gives to diversify and expand the business to the direct benefit of customers.

Based out of historic premises in St Albans the company has a sizable workshop facility to build, prototype and test large scale systems prior to customer delivery.

Also in house is the Meteor Data Centre. This was setup in 2005 and consists of a dedicated server room facility which receives data from an ever expanding network of stations. It is a trusted resource in use across many customer organisations as the primary tool for real time data display using any web enabled device.

Over the course of the past four years the company has been steadily expanding and is continuously developing and evolving new products, web services and field engineering capabilities to ensure that Meteor are the forefront of the environmental monitoring market.

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