SEA AIR & LAND COMMUNICATIONS LTD
Designers and Manufacturers of Communications Systems.

Salcom is a privately owned company employing nineteen staff. Since its inception in 1984 it has become a major supplier of quality signalling and message handling systems to the New Zealand telecommunications industry.

Salcom has the resources to present clients with a complete solution; a skilled team of digital and telecommunication engineers, software writers, a documentation section, a manufacturing plant and sales engineering. The Salcom team is supported by a high degree of computerization which incorporates CAD (both in mechanical and electrical design), documentation, and production and test facilities.

The company is small and specialized and is therefore able to concentrate on flexibility and efficiency, in turn leading to short turnaround times for products and system applications and integration.

Salcom has expertise in RF (radio frequency) and microprocessor based design. Signalling products it designed have been provided for NZ Railways Corporation for nation-wide train control, NZ Police vehicle transceivers, Auckland and Wellington Public Transport (bus) Authorities, NZ Fire Service, regional ambulance services and some taxi and courier companies. Automatic Vehicle Location technology has been provided by SALCOM to some of the Ambulance Service Fleets in the South Island of New Zealand and to some fleets in the Taxi Industry.

A typical system uses existing voice traffic transceivers as the transmission medium and at the base a computer interfaces to a transceiver to send, receive and store electronic messages both to and from the mobiles.

In recent years Salcom has provided specialized low level telecontrol and remote monitoring systems which include cost effective low power, high performance telecontrol and POCSAG paging transmitters and receivers.
 

CORE PRODUCTS AND SERVICES

Some of the typical products SALCOM has designed and manufactured are: 121.5/243 Mhz EPIRB Marine Rescue Beacon. In excess of 70% of production involving tens of thousands of units has been exported. The beacon is approved to the Australian Specification drafted for COSPAS/SARSAT satellite compatibility.

POCSAG Radio Paging transmitters and receivers for local network applications including low level telecontrol and remote monitoring systems.

VHF and UHF Radio Transmitters and Receivers

MAJOR PARTNERS

SIGTEC Pty Ltd., Manufacturers of transport management technology including GPS Automatic Vehicle Location equipment and Fleet Management solutions.

iDispatch Ltd., Offering fleet management technology and bureau services to the transport industry.

REPRESENTATIVE CUSTOMERS

New Zealand Fire Service - exclusively using SALCOM paging systems for volunteer callout throughout New Zealand.

The Order of St John Ambulance Service (Northern Region) South Island using GPS Automatic Vehicle Location equipment and SALCOM network Radio Paging.

Ports of Wellington, Napier, Auckland, Nelson and Tauranga using either SALCOM Straddle telemetry or Port lighting control equipment.

EXPORT MARKETS

Distribution arrangements are in place for Australia, United States of America and Switzerland with active sales representation in South America, Malaysia and the Pacific..

INDUSTRY AWARDS

Qantas New Zealand Electronic Excellence Award for Design, Technology and Innovation.

QUALITY MANAGEMENT

Salcom has operated a quality management system for more than a decade. During this period, it has evolved into a sophisticated, primarily software based system. However while this system well suited the management and production control requirements of the company, it did not provide authoritative and independent proof of our commitment to providing quality managed products and services for our customers.

To meet this need, the staff of Salcom have successfully worked towards achieving Telarc Q-Base certification.

We can now say that we can provide our customers with the confidence that our business has an effective quality management system and that it works! Formal certification of our system demonstrates our commitment to quality, productivity and customer satisfaction. Customers can be confident in our ability to deliver products and services that consistently meet their requirements.

Telarc, New Zealand's most popular and longest established certification agency, regularly reviews our quality management system to standards to ensure that our customers can maintain confidence in our effectiveness.