Australia & New Zealand
Sentor in Australia
In Australia, Sentor remote monitoring and control systems are supplied, designed, installed and supported by Radio Industries Australia Pty. Limited, who own the Sentor name in Australia and are the authorised distributor for the region. Australian and New Zealand enquiries go to them directly.
Who you deal with
Radio Industries has been supplying two-way radio communications in Australia since 1985 — one of the country’s longest-running communications companies, now past forty years in the trade.
They design and install radio systems across DMR, TETRA, PTT, POC, LTE and P25, run their own service and repair department, hire equipment, and arrange private frequencies. Sentor remote monitoring and control sits alongside that work, and Sentor system design is one of the services they offer.
That combination is the reason the arrangement works. The sites where Sentor earns its keep — towers, repeater huts, remote depots — are the same sites Radio Industries is already working on. The people specifying your monitoring are the people who understand what is in the shelter.
Radio Industries Australia
Authorised Sentor distributor
Unit 1–10 Alliance Avenue, Morisset NSW 2264, Australia
+61 2 4973 2763
Sentor systems at Radio Industries
radioindustries.com.au
Coverage: Australia wide — NSW, QLD, VIC, ACT, TAS, NT, SA and WA.
Branches: Sydney, Newcastle, Melbourne, Brisbane, Perth, Canberra and Darwin.
Trading since 1985.
What Sentor does
Built for sites that are a long way from anyone
A Sentor controller sits at an unmanned site, reads what is happening there — power, batteries, temperature, transmitter power, water levels, doors and access — and reports it back in real time. It also acts: relay outputs switch equipment, release doors, close gates and start plant, either on an operator’s instruction or automatically, from logic stored on the controller itself.
Works without a connection
Scenario logic runs on the controller, so a site keeps monitoring, controlling and logging while its link is down. It reports over cellular, radio, satellite, ethernet or landline — whichever actually reaches the site.
Grows without replacement
Sixteen inputs and eight outputs to start, expandable to eighty and forty by adding cards to the controller already installed. Systems from the 1990s are still in service and still supported.
Fits what you already run
DNP3 for utilities and water, SNMP for network management, and Modbus, so new sites report into the SCADA or NMS you already operate rather than needing a second system.
Where it is used in Australia
The applications that bring Australian operators to Sentor are the ones where distance is the problem — where the interval between inspections is set by how far it is to drive, not by how quickly things actually fail.
- Tower and repeater sites — forward and reflected power, RSSI, batteries, rectifiers, generators, air conditioning, tower lighting and site access.
- Stations and irrigation — bore pumps, trough and tank levels, livestock tag readers, remote gate control and weather.
- Water, utilities and pipelines — pressure, flow and temperature reporting into an existing SCADA master over DNP3.
- Government and critical infrastructure — auditable event logging and long documented service life.
- Remote site security and access — card and biometric entry with a full audit trail, working offline.
An Australian installation
An unmanned Western Australian sheep station carrying around 3,000 head is monitored and controlled from a computer in Perth, roughly 590 kilometres away — trough water levels, livestock tag readers, video, and gates closed remotely to muster stock into yards.
Visits to the station’s bore sites fell by around 50%.
A note on the Sentor name in Australia. Sentor systems are designed and manufactured in the United States by Sentor Control Systems Inc.. The Sentor name in Australia is owned by Radio Industries Australia Pty. Limited, who distribute, install and support the product across Australia and New Zealand. If you are in Australia or New Zealand, they are the right people to talk to about supply, installation, service and pricing — not this website.
Talk to Radio Industries about your sites
Tell them how many unmanned sites you run, how far apart they are and what has to be watched. They will specify it and install it.