CASE STUDY:

AMAGER BAKKE

A waste-to-energy plant unlike any other

Amager Bakke is
conveniently located
just five kilometers from
JMA Wireless Provides
Copenhagen’s Town Hall
Square. Unprecedented Mobile
Communications at Amager
Bakke
Overview: Unique Facility from the roof of the building and is the longest ski slope
in Denmark. In addition, there is a ski center, 3,000 m2
Requires a Unique Wireless of green space and soon there will be one of the world’s

Network highest climbing walls at 80 meters tall.

It is only fitting that Denmark’s largest technical installation

Amager Bakke is not your typical waste-to-energy plant. company, Kemp & Lauritzen, was hired to ensure
Instead it serves a two-fold purpose – energy production employees operating this green energy plant have the best
and recreation. Inside the plant, equipment is burning in cellular connectivity. Kemp & Lauritzen knew it needed a
400,000 tons of municipal waste annually, supplying DAS (distributed antenna system) that could enable mobile
electricity to 62,500 homes and providing 160,000 communications in a challenging environment; therefore,
households with district heating. A special feature of this they turned to global wireless innovator, JMA Wireless. The
facility is the chimney, which emits its exhaust continuously company’s TEKO DAS is the industry’s fastest growing
in the form of “smoke” rings. However, these rings are DAS and has proven repeatedly that it can stand up to just
water vapor, not actual smoke. Outside, the plant offers about any type of environment to ensure subscribers have
a 440-meter ski slope known as Copenhill. It extends powerful cellular coverage anywhere, anytime.
 approximately 10,000 alarm points and visual systems.
This extensive amount of equipment is often accompanied

Each year Amager Bakke by competing wireless technologies, and many moving
parts, presenting further challenges for the wireless
turns 400,000 tons of waste network. Powerful cellular communications are often
into: necessary for keeping employees informed and safe while
in the plant.

• 99% energy efficiency. The Amager Bakke facility runs 24 hours per day, 365

• District heating for 160,000

days per year, supplying energy every day to thousands of
Denmark’s residents; therefore, it was often challenging for
households. the team to work around the equipment and employees in
the plant. There was never downtime when the team could
• Electricity for 62,500 easily deploy the equipment without causing interruptions.

households. Since the plant is operating around the clock, it was critical
to deploy a wireless network that could be upgraded easily
• 100 million liters of spare water and is future-proof. Extensive downtime is not an option
recovered through flue gas when upgrading it to accommodate new technologies and/

condensation. or bands.

Finally, the Amager Bakke facility presented challenges

• 90% reuse of metals from waste regarding the number of available spots to mount the

amounting to 10,000 tons of antennas. There were limited options where equipment
could be mounted yet cellular coverage and capacity are
metal a year. necessary throughout the plant.

• 100,000 tons of bottom ash

reused as road material, which
saves large amounts of gravel.
Source: B&W Volund website

Situation: Industrial
Environment Challenges
Supplying powerful wireless connectivity in a waste-to-
energy plant comes with many challenges. First, the
facility is constructed of steel and concrete. And, steel is
present throughout the plant as well with turbines and steel
structures in the ceiling where the furnaces and boilers sit.
Both steel and concrete are materials that impede cellular
signals from entering and leaving the building.

Furthermore, the plant not only houses large boilers and

furnaces, but also 850 pumps, fans and compressors,
1,800 valves, 3,300 measuring instruments, and
Solution: The TEKO DAS technologies to be added without the need for additional
hardware or configuration changes. Existing fiber can be
Prevails leveraged too as new 5G technologies are launched into
the market. Furthermore, the platform’s modular sub-rack is
Even though industrial environments, such as Amager
designed to easily support new sectors and services as the
Bakke, present many challenges to enabling powerful
system expands.
mobile communications, JMA Wireless still prevailed
with its TEKO DAS. The result was 100 percent in-
building cellular coverage. The multi-band, multi-carrier Result: Better Connected,
DAS platform is enabling coverage for 3G. The mobile
operators, Telenor and TDC, are supported on the in-
More Efficient
building network. Along with the modular master unit (MU), The TEKO DAS has proven to be the perfect solution for
two very high power remote units (RUs) were deployed to enabling wireless communications for the employees at
support the one sector. Amager Bakke. This cost efficient, future-proof offering is
helping to ensure daily operations are running smoothly so
Since Amager Bakke operates 24 X 7 it was often difficult
the thousands of households depending on the waste-
for the team to receive access to the building to deploy the
to-energy plant are receiving electricity and being heated
equipment. However, since each remote unit only required
today and will continue to be in the future.
a single fiber to connect back to the master unit less time
and manpower were needed than competitive offerings. In
fact, the TEKO DAS uses up to 75 percent less fiber than
other solutions in the market today.

JMA Wireless built the TEKO DAS with the future in mind.
When new bands, technologies and operators are added,
the system can be easily upgraded. There is no need to “rip
and replace” every time there is a change in technology.
Instead, its transparently adaptable modulation allows new

“ We selected the cost efficient TEKO DAS

platform from JMA Wireless for this high-
profile deployment because it is has proven
repeatedly it can enable powerful cellular
coverage and capacity in challenging
environments. Since its installation last
summer at Amager Bakke it has not
disappointed.”
Michael Balslev
Section Manager
Kemp & Lauritzen
About JMA Wireless About Kemp & Lauritzen
JMA Wireless is the leading global innovator in mobile Kemp & Lauritzen was founded in 1882 and has grown to
wireless connectivity solutions that ensure infrastructure become Denmark’s largest technical installation company
reliability, streamline service operations, and maximize with over 2,000 employees. Our core competencies are
wireless performance. Employing powerful, patented within all technical fields, and we offer all types of technical
innovations their solutions portfolio is proven to lower the solutions across disciplines. As your technical partner, we
cost of operations while ensuring lifetime quality levels improve your business – and not only by solving technical
in equipment and unrivaled performance for coverage challenges. We think big and have a broad scope. So
and high-speed mobile data. JMA Wireless solutions you get a business partner with the widest range of
cover macro infrastructure, outdoor and indoor distributed technical expertise in Denmark, and avoid time-consuming
antenna systems and small cell solutions. JMA Wireless coordination. We take responsibility for the whole process
corporate headquarters are located in Liverpool, NY, with from A to Z and target our services to your specific
manufacturing, R&D, and sales operations in over 20 needs, whether it’s a one-off project, a unique technical
locations worldwide. For more information see jmawireless. specialty, or a comprehensive interdisciplinary technical
com. enterprise. Our headquarters are based in Albertslund,
near Copenhagen, but we have offices all over Denmark,
so we can service your company wherever it is located.
The principle is: one entrance, many possibilities. For
more information visit https://www.kemp-lauritzen.dk/
international.

Amager Bakke is visible

from most of Copenhagen
with its giant smoke stack
JMA Wireless Corporate Headquarters
and the rings of water
7645 Henry Clay Boulevard vapor it emits every day.
Liverpool, New York 1308
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