Drake Lighting

The FAA Advisory Circular 70/7460-1M advises that a tower be monitored at least once every 24 hours to ensure the tower is fully functioning. Before, one had to physically lay eyes on the tower site and confirm that it was still up and running. Now, with the development of cellular networks, remote monitoring has become a way of keeping up with your tower's functionality. Remote monitoring requires communication through a network with the use of codes to find out if the tower's lights are running. Remote monitoring can be performed from anywhere, and makes it so that your tower has the capability of being in communication at all times of the day, so you do not have to check on it every 24 hours.

Drake Lighting offers full service remote monitoring for not only our own tower sites, but also for towers that do not support our lighting systems. Our expert monitoring team is available 24/7 to monitor towers across the continental United States. We have a state of the art monitoring room in house, equiped with monitoring screens that constantly display all towers on our radar. Our monitoring platform can be supported from almost anywhere, because we are linked through Verizon and AT&T carriers. We go beyond the FAA standard, as we monitor for alarms almost 20x more than the FAA regulated 1x every 24 hours. This makes it so that if your tower light goes into alarm, the amount of time before the malfunction is resolved or the NOTAM is entered is significantly shorter.

The FAA requires a NOTAM to be sent out no more than 30 minutes after a tower alarm has sounded. Drake is able to catch the alarm, troubleshoot the malfunction, and have the issue resolved in generally 30 minutes or less, before a NOTAM is ever needed to be sent out. Our success rate for solving alarms is well over 90%. If the malfunction proves to be something that requires a technician, then Drake will enter the NOTAM, and deploy our crew to have boots on the ground at your site within the week. The less time your tower is in alarm, the more time you stay in compliance with the FAA.

Of the 800+ tower sites that Drake monitors, we strive to have less than 5% of our monitored towers in alarm at any given time. That is why we are so proactive while monitoring. A consistently functioning tower light that has minimal alarms is our goal. Drake's equipment is half as likely to alarm as the competitors, and lasts 50% longer as well. Most of the towers that are consistently going in to alarm are our competitor's lighting systems, and we have the means to resolve their malfunctions too.

Are you keeping up with the industry standard? Remote Full Service Monitoring is the way the industry is going, and Drake is here to make sure your tower stays functioning, 24/7/365. You shouldn't have to worry about whether your tower site is staying FAA Compliant, we will make sure that it is for you.

Interested in our Monitoring Services? Call TODAY!

Phone: 270-804-7383

Email: contact@drakelighting.com