Globe announced that it would deploy G-Climate, a digital service that reduces cell site downtime and ensures business continuity during natural disasters, especially typhoons.
Globe partnered with Amazon Web Services (AWS) to develop G-Climate, a cloud-native service that uses predictive analytics on a variety of data sources, including weather information, weather patterns, and cell site outage data, to identify potential outages during typhoon season.
G-Climate was created to mitigate the impact of severe weather disturbances, which account for 10 to 20 percent of Globe's cell site outages.
This innovation is in accordance with the organization's commitment to the United Nations Sustainable Development Goals, specifically UN SDG No. 9, which emphasizes the importance of infrastructure and innovation as key drivers of economic growth and development.
Yoly Crisanto, Chief Sustainability and Corporate Communications Officer, Globe Group, said:
Since communications are vital during disasters, Globe is doing its best to minimize the impact of climate-related risks, particularly the downtime of cell sites in typhoon-prone areas. G-Climate is one of the ways to mitigate the effects of severe weather conditions beyond our control.
Stephen Thomas Misa, Country Head of AWS Philippines, said:
It is great to see Globe create and use G-Climate App built using AWS Machine Learning services, including Amazon SageMaker, to drive faster operational decisions in critical situations and natural disasters like typhoons, floods, and earthquakes. More importantly, restoring communication facilities as fast as possible after a disaster strikes allows our citizens to reconnect and stay connected with families, friends, and loved ones and have access to their finances, funds, and other critical support services.
How Globe G-Climate Works?
G-Climate utilizes historical and current weather data and site information to predict which cell sites might experience an outage. This enables Globe to optimize the location of its engineers, supplies, and backup power in order to prevent or minimize customer downtime.
G-Climate seeks to reduce restoration time by 30 percent for the benefit of typhoon-affected subscribers. Other potential advantages include a decrease in revenue loss, infrastructure damage and restoration costs, and time spent filing insurance claims.
Instead of compiling multiple categories of data for weather forecasts and daily updates, engineers at Globe will utilize G-Climate. Engineers designated to a specific region receive email alerts regarding predicted outages for cell sites within their region, allowing them to take preventative measures. Throughout the day, G-Climate's machine learning analyzes multiple sources of information, including historical cell site information and updated weather information.
Engineers will be able to investigate a site prior to a typhoon's landfall by integrating G-Climate into the network operation's ticketing system. However, multiple fiber cuts and road-clearing operations may still have an impact on restoration efforts.
Moreover, Globe equips key sites with relevant access technologies and redundant transport facilities in the event of an area-wide outage, reinforces transport facilities, and complements backup environmentally friendly batteries with higher capacity generator sets to address prolonged commercial power outages in order to ensure network resilience and business continuity.
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Other Solutions
Globe Telecom also invested in rapid-deployment solutions for stopgap measures and fast fixes in disaster-stricken regions requiring immediate assistance. This includes Tower on Wheels (TOW) and Cell Site On Wheels (COW), which are retractable towers that can be rapidly deployed to provide temporary coverage and capacity in network outage-affected areas.
Other solutions include the Network-in-a-Box (NIB) portable cell sites, Cellsite-on-a-Light-Truck (COLT), and Genset-on-a-Truck (GOAT) mobile generators, which can be set up in strategic locations to provide temporary coverage and capacity in affected areas.
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