Cisco FM Shield Bracket provides an easy-to-use, reliable, and robust method of installing Cisco FM radios in extreme environments. This auxiliary mounting kit is designed to withstand specialized hazards, such as extreme vibration, highly pressurized hot and cold water, and destructive impacts from heavy objects. FM Shield Bracket also provides a solid platform from which to install and maintain a Cisco FM radio under challenging conditions.
FM Shield Bracket was designed with open-pit and underground mining in mind, with specific focus on haul trucks, dozers, shovels, drills, and loaders. The difficult environmental conditions of mining often mean that radios can be installed only inside the cabins of vehicles. This requires longer-than-optimum antenna cables, leading to degraded RF performance. In addition, the cabs of mining vehicles usually have limited space for installation and maintenance of radio gear. FM Shield Bracket solves all these problems, allowing customers to install a Cisco FM radio outside a vehicle and as close as possible to its antennas, thus limiting RF losses and increasing transmission ranges. As usual, power and connectivity can be provided by Power over Ethernet (PoE) using a Category 5/6 cable or through dedicated data and DC power connections.
Since it allows a larger range of installation possibilities, FM Shield Bracket provides customers with a platform to leverage Cisco FM Multiprotocol Label Switching (MPLS) technology, and deploy multiradio beam-forming configurations on vehicles. Using FM Shield Bracket, protected radio units can be freely installed around a vehicle without the need to run overly long antenna cables. This feature is particularly valuable on, for example, dual-radio haul trucks and when building a beam-forming configuration on a large shovel or drilling rig.
FM Shield Bracket has been designed to fit all major-brand mining trucks and for applications such as fleet management, tele-remote dozing, autonomous drilling, and autonomous hauling. FM Shield Bracket includes N-type connectors for RF cables, a metal structure with a variety of mounting holes, and a mounting bracket designed to fit tubular structures such as railing systems.