Please explain in the area below why an STA is necessary:
Background
Ripley Lighting Controls LLC (Ripley) is a division of SouthConn Technologies Inc that supplies photocontrols. Ripley is also starting to supply into the USA market a system for the remote control and monitoring of road lighting named Aladdin. Aladdin is based on a system from Telensa Ltd., UK. The Aladdin version of the Telensa system conforms to USA radio regulations (ISM 902-928 MHz FCC Part 15). The intention is to submit the Aladdin system for FCC approval.
There is also a system using the same radio technology platform as Aladdin, but for an Automatic Meter Reading (?AMR?) application as opposed to road lighting management. The base station and outstation units in this AMR system have been FCC approved (base station FCCID: U3R-ABSR, outstation FCCID: U3R-5252). The Aladdin base station is electrically identical to the AMR base station; it just has slightly different mechanics. The Aladdin outstation is a lower transmit power version of the AMR outstation.
System overview
The Aladdin system is a telemetry solution for street Light Monitoring and Control. It enables owners or operators of street lighting to maximise the performance of their street lighting deployments. Each light is fitted with a radio device that communicates with a central site, so lights can be managed down to an individual level with maximum flexibility. The system provides access to detailed operating information, which enables key functions to be measured, maintained and controlled. The system helps operators to realise efficiencies and savings over the life of their street light assets.
The system can be deployed over local or wide areas to help manage many thousands of lights at a time. The system can be installed and operated in its own right and it can also combine with existing street light management platforms providing further functionality in key areas of monitoring performance and control.
The system consists of three main parts:
1. Telecells
2. Base stations
3. Central system
The system has a conventional point to multipoint, or cellular wireless architecture and consists of base stations that form direct wireless links to distant or remote ?telecells? Base stations are connected back to a central system server, typically over the internet or wide area network. The central system is accessed by operator workstations running a user interface, either over a local area network or also over the internet. The central system is used to run the overall system and store all the measured data and operating configurations.
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