Industries
Industrial & Warehousing
SOT fortifies industrial and logistics sectors with ruggedized IT hardware, advanced ANPR for logistics yards, and heavy-duty fiber optic infrastructure designed specifically to withstand harsh environmental conditions.
Industrial sites destroy equipment that would last a decade in an office. Dust, heat, vibration, washdown and forklift traffic are all routine, and commercial-grade hardware in a warehouse is not a saving but a deferred replacement. Specification here starts with the environment rather than with the feature list.
The second characteristic is scale and geometry. Warehouses are large, high and full of racking that moves, so wireless coverage cannot be planned as though the building were empty — racking full of stock attenuates very differently from racking that is not, and a survey done in an empty building will be wrong by the time it is occupied.
The third is that the operation is continuous and physical. Scanners, weighbridges, gates and yard movements are the business, so a network fault is not an inconvenience but a stopped process, and the boundary between IT and operational technology is where most of the real risk sits.
What this covers
Industrial-grade hardware
Switches, access points and cameras rated for the temperature, dust and vibration they will actually meet, in sealed enclosures where needed.
Warehouse wireless
Coverage surveyed with racking loaded, tuned for scanners and vehicle-mounted terminals that roam constantly.
Yard and gate control
ANPR, barriers and intercoms at the gate, with arrival and departure recorded against the booking rather than on a clipboard.
Perimeter security
Long-range and thermal detection along fence lines, with analytics tuned to the site rather than to a datasheet.
OT and IT separation
Operational equipment segmented from corporate systems, which on an industrial site is where the consequential risk sits.
Resilient power
UPS and distribution for control rooms and network nodes, because a momentary dip that reboots a switch stops a process line.
Explore in detail
Each of these has a page of its own — what it involves, what it covers, and the questions that decide the specification.
How we deliver it
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Site survey
An engineer walks the site and records what is actually there — cable routes, containment, power, ceiling voids, existing equipment and its condition. Most of the cost overruns on a project of this kind are either discovered here or discovered late.
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Design and Bill of Quantities
A drawn design and an itemised BoQ: every part, its quantity and its price, with the reasoning for the specification written beside it. You own the document whether or not you buy from us.
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Supply from Riyadh stock
Equipment released against the BoQ from local stock where we hold it, or ordered directly from the vendor where we do not. Serial numbers are recorded against your project, so a warranty claim later does not depend on you having kept the paperwork.
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Installation and commissioning
Our own engineers install, terminate, configure and test. The testing is documented — link certification, camera fields of view, failover checks — and the results are handed over as part of the file rather than described verbally.
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Handover and support
As-built drawings, configuration backups, credentials and test results, plus training for whoever will run it day to day. Support and warranty are handled by the same team that installed it.
Standards and regulations
What a deployment is measured against. A consultant or a main contractor will check a proposal against these, so they are named rather than implied.
- IEC 62443
- Security for industrial automation and control systems. The relevant framework wherever operational technology shares infrastructure with IT, which on a modern site is everywhere.
- IP65 to IP69K
- Ingress protection classes. Dust ingress ends more equipment on a Saudi industrial site than water does, and washdown areas need the upper end of the range.
- IEC 60529 and IK ratings
- Enclosure protection against ingress and impact, which matters wherever forklifts operate.
- ANSI/TIA-568
- Cabling standards, and specifically the distance limits that decide how many distribution nodes a large floor plate requires.
- Saudi Building Code
- Electrical installation and containment in industrial premises, including hazardous area requirements where they apply.
Questions we get asked
What IP rating does SOT use for outdoor industrial hardware?
SOT selects IP ratings based on each site's specific environmental exposure (dust, moisture, temperature).
How does ANPR work at a logistics yard entrance?
ANPR cameras read vehicle plates at entry/exit points and integrate with access control or logging systems.
Is fiber cabling suitable for long-distance runs between warehouse buildings?
Yes, SOT's heavy-duty fiber infrastructure is designed for long-distance, harsh-environment runs between buildings.