Northern Tier Energy is an independent downstream energy company with refining, retail, and pipeline operations that serve the PADD II region of the United States. Northern Tier Energy’s refining business primarily consists of a 74,000 bpd (84,500 barrels per stream day) refinery located in St. Paul Park, Minnesota. The refinery’s location allows it to distribute its refined products throughout the Midwestern United States. The refinery produces a broad slate of refined products including gasoline, diesel, jet fuel and asphalt, which are then marketed to resellers and consumers primarily in the PADD II region.
The challenge:
The company needed a product that could provide the ability for it’s users to see all channels and radios, broadcast on all channels at one time, prerecorded messages, GPS and audio recording. It also should be easy to use and cost effective.
The solution:
The provider suggested to use TRBOnet Enterprise for MOTOTRBO that makes the job a lot easier and more productive by allowing to easily make one announcement over all channels instead of having to make the same announcement on individual channels. TRBOnet also allows to see what channel the subscriber’s radio is on so the user could select the right channel to make contact with them, without having to try multiple channel and waste time. TRBOnet’s emergency features helps Northern Tier Energy response teams by sending an alarm/notification to TRBOnet’s screen, it has the capability of pulling up a GPS Track on a radio once the emergency alarm is triggered. “We are very satisfied with TRBOnet and the support of their staff. The system is very user friendly and easy to learn. We have never had trouble trying to reach tech support, they are always willing to help,” says Jeffrey Sherman, safety and security/FSO.
The benefit:
There are 615 subscriber radios and 10 IPSC repeaters at the site of the company. After installation of the TRBOnet the most quantity of the features are used: the radio interface, recent calls and events, playback, reports, text messaging, GPS, reminder tasks, and GEO fencing, and radio disable for unauthorized radio. Simple, user-friendly application solves everyday challenges in best way.
