Public and Private Utilities Industry

Mission-Critical Communications and Security Solutions for Utilities

Maintaining your power grid during inclement weather; protecting your water system from ransomware and cyberattacks; enabling iot automation to increase productivity; communicating across an ever-expanding geographic field of critical infrastructure. MCA understands the problems, as well as the ambitions, that utilities face in the twenty-first century.

Our utilities solutions unite voice, data, video, and analytics across a fully-integrated communications ecosystem. Designed to improve the safety of critical mission workers in the field and utilities’ infrastructure, drive productivity, and create a seamless interface for visual and audio transmission, MCA provides the key for utilities to reinvent themselves to confront the challenges of tomorrow.

Understanding the Current Needs of Public and Private Utilities

Today, public and private utilities have been tasked with doing more with less. Electrical utilities need to automate power distribution for smart grid technology to better serve their customers. Oil and Gas companies are being tasked with producing more energy at lower cost. Water and Wastewater facilities are in the process of implementing Industrial IoT to diagnose line breakages and protect their municipalities’ water supply.

To accomplish those tasks, public and private utilities need to upgrade their communication devices and network infrastructure to maintain tighter security for their physical and digital assets wherever they reside.

MCA Communication, Security, Data, and Fleet Solutions for Private and Public Utilities

Our utility-tailored solutions unite voice, data, video, and analytics across a fully-integrated communications ecosystem. Designed to improve the safety of critical mission workers in the field and utilities’ infrastructure, drive productivity, and create a seamless interface for visual and audio transmission, MCA provides the key for utilities to reinvent themselves to confront the challenges of tomorrow.

These are only a few of the solutions we offer Oil and Gas, Electricity, and Water and Wastewater.

Our utilities solutions unite voice, data, video, and analytics across a fully-integrated communications ecosystem.

Designed to improve the safety of critical mission workers in the field and utilities’ infrastructure, drive productivity, and create a seamless interface for visual and audio transmission, MCA provides the key for utilities to reinvent themselves to confront the challenges of tomorrow.

Radio Solutions

Giving your public or private utility a unified communication system means expertly deploying the ruggedized devices, dispatch consoles, and command centers you need to be effective. MCA furnishes always-on radio communication solutions for the worker fixing a downed power line in the middle of a storm miles away from your base of operations.

Retail Solutions Two-Way Radio

Communicate

MCA offers the complete portfolio of Motorola two-way radios. The APX P25 is an ultra-durable radio purpose-built to deliver clear and consistent voice in the noisiest of environments.

Dispatch

Dispatch consoles enable operators to gather and manage communications. Empower your dispatchers to coordinate intelligence to provide critical information to your utility’s teams.

Command

CommandCentral Aware Enterprise aggregates real-time video feeds, resource tracking, CAD, and more, on a single intuitive interface with a layered geospatial mapping view.

Security Solutions

As a public or private utility, protecting your workers, critical assets and infrastructure, as well as the communities in which you operate is vital. With MCA’s video surveillance, access control systems, intrusion detection, and security automation tools, you can prevent criminals from doing harm to your utility.

Video Analytics

Monitor

MCA delivers smart video surveillance cameras with AI and self-learning capabilities. Our cameras are designed to detect unusual activity across your facilities.

Software for Video Surveillance

Control

Our access control systems with key cards, biometric locking and entry, and other automated features keep unauthorized persons from gaining access to your facilities.

Cameras for Video Surveillance

Detect

With digital and physical detection systems from MCA, you can monitor your digital networks for suspicious activity and safeguard your facilities from unwanted visitors.

Data Solutions

MCA data solutions for public and private utilities enhance operational efficiency, productivity, and safety. From SCADA systems for IoT device management to cellular devices for utility service vehicles to advanced cellular coverage, we offer a number of solutions essential to the utilities industry’s profitability.

Automate

With our best-in-class RTUs, cellular routers, and LoRaWAN devices for the remote monitoring of your utilities’ SCADA systems, you can automate your critical processes, functions, and performance without the need to manually intervene.

Privatize

Our private wireless networking solutions offer unparalleled voice, video, and data on a secure network. Monitor and control your facilities wireless networks, especially when located in areas where public cellular coverage is spotty or non-existent.

Manufacturing Safety​

Enhance

Top-tier Cellular Distributed Antenna Systems (Cellular DAS) from MCA give you the ability to enhance public cellular network coverage across the entire scope of your facilities. Install DAS cellular at power substations for improved coverage.
MCA Public Safety In Building Wireless Solutions

Protect

Public safety radio distributed antenna systems (PSR DAS) ensure that emergency responder radio communications (ERRC) work throughout your facilities. PSR DAS keeps the lines of communication open in the case of an emergency at one of your utility’s facilities.

Two-Way Radios for Construction Sites

Alert

Our Mass Notification Systems (MNS) alert workers at your facilities of potential hazards and workplace incidents. MNS broadcast critical voice and SMS messages, sound alerts, and direct workers to safety in the event of a potentially life-threatening accident.

Deploy

MCA furnishes a number of cellular connectivity solutions for your utility’s field service vehicles and personnel. From in-vehicle computing to vehicle telemetry, we will install the industry’s best routers, antennas, and peripherals throughout your fleet.

Service Offerings

MCA does more than sell hardware and software. We help you with a myriad of services from initial consultation and installation down to post-sale maintenance and support. Learn more below.

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Professional Services

MCA’s design and engineering teams create detailed plans for your education technology projects and offer complete support throughout your solutions lifecycle.

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Installation Services

During installation, you can count on MCA to run a comprehensive set of checks and tests to ensure perfect performance. From system implementation to training, we have you covered.

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Solution Support

Engineering, design, and installation are only a part of the process. MCA provides all the maintenance and support you need for your project. When you work with MCA, you gain a lifelong partner.

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Radio Rentals

We offer rentals of two-way radios and radio systems to provide our customers with a cost-effective option over ownership. MCA delivers top-tier radios as part of our rental program.

With over three decades under our belt providing solutions to our partners in law enforcement, MCA takes pride in the services and top-shelf equipment we offer.

Collaborating with hundreds of law enforcement agencies over the years, we continue to deliver the highest-quality products and solutions through our premier channel partners such as Motorola Solutions, Panasonic, Cradlepoint, Sierra Wireless, and more.

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20-Point Security Audit

Communication. Coordination. Control.

Security threats are evolving. Is your facility’s protection evolving with them?

From AI-powered surveillance and access control to concealed weapon detection and cloud-based video backup, today’s security landscape demands more than just cameras and locks—it requires integration, automation, and insight.

Are You Missing a Critical Piece of Your Security Ecosystem?

  • Is every access point under surveillance and recording?
  • Are unauthorized individuals blocked with modern access controls?
  • Is your system backed up, integrated, and future-ready?
  • Are you using analytics and AI to monitor and respond in real-time?

This quick 20-Point Security Audit helps you evaluate your current systems, uncover hidden vulnerabilities, and identify opportunities for improvement.

Fill out the form below to download the checklist and discover how MCA’s integrated security ecosystems can:

  • Detect threats faster
  • Control access intelligently
  • Unify video, detection, and access into a single, easy-to-manage platform

Whether you’re attending GSX or evaluating your next phase of facility protection, MCA is your trusted advisor in next-gen security.