Critical Power Solutions International, a subsidiary of Critical Solutions Inc, reportedly has upgraded the Federal Bureau of Prisons’ renewable energy towers with the latest solar and wind power technologies.

 

Located at two separate BOP sites in the United States, the towers are being used for remote site surveillance and communications, as well as crowd and prisoner control.

 

Officials at Critical Power Solutions said that portable towers systems fueled by non-traditional power sources can be deployed rapidly to satisfy physical security and communications requirements in areas where conventional power is not readily available or too expensive to deploy.

 

According to Patrick Gallagher, president of Critical Power Solutions International, the company is committed to using the most advanced ‘green’ technologies on its towers.

 

“By upgrading the power capability of the units they become even more reliable and efficient, two extremely important qualities of our towers,” Gallagher said. “The latest generation of our unit is able to power the most advanced security and communication technologies.”

 

These characteristics make the units ideal for border security due to the relative lack of power near borders. Officials said that the towers have the unique ability to power a multitude of applications utilizing most wireless communications and security sensors.

 

Current applications include surveillance, haz-mat, radiation and bio/chemical detection, and Radio Frequency Identification for asset management.

 

Critical Solutions, through its wholly owned subsidiary, Critical Power Solutions International, Inc., manufactures and sells a line of patent pending self-powered trailer systems that can be rapidly deployed to power physical security and communication requirements for areas where power is difficult to obtain, or where conventional power means are too expensive to deploy.

 

In August, Critical Solutions Inc. says it received a purchase order and deposit to design an alternative energy tower system to power radar surveillance technology at wind farms in North America.

 

Under the order, Critical Solutions’ was to design the solar, wind, and petro powered tower for Laufer Wind Group.