Publicado: Por Trucell
Cold storage: Wi‑Fi and warehouse management system deployment
Digitising warehouse operations with a new WMS, industrial Wi‑Fi for sub-zero and shielded zones, CipherLab scanners, redundant switching, fibre backbone, MDM, and streamlined connectivity—with minimal disruption while the site stayed live.
Trucell migrated a cold storage facility from manual location tracking to a digital Warehouse Management System (WMS). The programme included a full rethink of warehouse workflow and a Wi‑Fi plant designed for temperatures down to −10 °C, including coverage into insulated rooms with aluminium shielding.
Challenge
The site had to stay operational during rollout. Radio planning had to cope with stacked product, chilled zones, metal structures, and long distances between network edge and communications rooms.
What we delivered
Wireless and backbone
Access points were placed for dense storage layouts and cold-room behaviour, keeping sessions stable where pallet stacks and shielding usually degrade signal.
For backhaul, we installed enterprise switching with redundant power, long copper runs (including paths beyond typical desk-length limits where engineered appropriately), and 10 Gbps fibre to the main communications room so edge APs had capacity headroom.
Scanning and devices
With CipherLab, we supplied waterproof, cold-rated barcode scanners, docks, and charging so teams could work continuously. Mobile device management (MDM) reduced risk from loss or misuse of handhelds in a busy yard and warehouse.
Cabling partner
PowerOne delivered structured data cabling and fibre across the facility, including long pulls and terminations into all required areas.
Connectivity, voice, and workloads
We moved the site onto Fibre 1000 internet with Ripple Networks, delivering a material reduction in monthly connectivity spend (on the order of hundreds of dollars per month versus the prior arrangement—exact savings depend on term and carrier pricing).
A unified telephony design linked office, yard, drivers, and packing teams. Legacy on‑premise servers were migrated toward cloud hosting so critical applications stayed reachable during the WMS cutover.
Outcome
Despite stacked cold rooms, legacy plant, and long cable paths, the project completed with reliable Wi‑Fi, a controlled transition to the new WMS, and limited disruption to daily logistics.
For warehouse-scale networking and internet, see Network services and Internet provider. Carrier fit often involves partners such as Ripple Networks where Trucell holds the relationship end-to-end.
Contact Trucell to scope industrial Wi‑Fi, WMS readiness, or cold-chain logistics IT.
Originally published as a case study on trucell.com.au.