Remote. Quiet.

The truck is the network
The SOS button
A slip: SOS
Radio to the truck
Off site by satellite
Operations centre
Help is moving

Comms hub on the truck

Long-range radio gatewayHears every SOS button along the easement
Cellular modemUsed wherever there’s coverage
Satellite terminalUsed everywhere else

Picks the live path automaticallyHolds and forwards if all links drop

SOS panic button clipped to the shirt

One press sends the SOSThat is its only function
Nothing to learnNo screen, no menus, no settings
Registered to one workerControl knows whose button it is

Long-range radio Listening

SOS buttonTruck gateway

SOS · button pressed
Button LW-3318
Heard by LC-09 gateway
Time-stamped

From anywhere along the easementNo mobile towers, no phone signal

Path off site chosen automatically

Radioslope → truck
Mobile networktruck → tower
Satellitetruck → sky → cloud

No link at all? The hub holds the alarm and sends it the moment one comes back.

Vehicle radio · Control → Line Crew 3 0:00

Case SOS-3046 logged as it happens

17:36:03SOS raisedPanic button LW-3318 pressed
17:36:04Relayed off siteRadio → LC-09 hub → satellite
17:36:05On the alarm consoleTeam chat, text, pagers alerted
17:36:19AcknowledgedD. Okafor, operator · line placed on hold
17:36:40Line Crew 3 dispatchedAI ranked first · one click
17:36:47Radio briefControl → Line Crew 3, recorded
17:58On sceneExpected

Every event time-stampedReady for investigation and audit

TOM SHAW Alarm console Network operations centre · Brisbane D. Okafor · Operator AI assist online 17:36:05

Who pressed it

Priya NairLine worker · Transmission Lines · Crew 7

Button: LW-3318 · registered to P. Nair
On shift: 06:30–18:00 · 11 h 06 m on
Supervisor: M. Castellano
Emergency contact: On file ✓
Medical notes: None recorded

Which site

Site: Feeder 8 easement · Tower 42
Heard by: LC-09 gateway, on the truck at the Tower 42 turnaround
Path: Radio→LC-09 hub→Satellite→Cloud
Mobile network: No coverage in the valley
Site hazards: Steep slopes · loose rock · remote access

Live map · Feeder 8 · Tower 42

AI assist · nearest responders

Line Crew 34WD · staging yard, up the access track22 min
Air 1Helicopter · on standby28 min
Line Crew 54WD · Feeder 6 patrol31 min

Access track is washed out near the top after rain: 4WD low range only. Approach from the staging yard; the line is on hold while the crew attends.

Response playbook 0 / 6

Acknowledge the alarm
Place the line on hold
Alert team chat, text, pagers
Dispatch the nearest crew
Brief the crew by radio
Notify the shift supervisor

Notifications

Team chatEmergency channel17:36:05
Text5 recipients17:36:05
PagersLine crews on call17:36:06

TOM SHAW · Lone Worker SOS · Power network

Out of range.
Never out of reach.

Two and a half minutes on a remote transmission line easement, narrated: one press, long-range radio, satellite, the operations centre, a line crew on the way.

Sound on · Space to pause · ← → to jump

When a lone worker presses SOS,
help is already moving.

SOS buttonon the worker
Comms hubon the truck
Satellite · cellularwhichever is live
TOM SHAW SOS cloudalarm platform
Operations centreAI-assisted dispatch
Line crewrouted to the tower

0press

0bars of signal needed

0click to dispatch

0case, every action logged

A TOM SHAW concept walkthrough. Fictional network, site, people and data; illustrative only.

Remote. Quiet.

Out of range.Never out of reach.

When a lone worker presses SOS,help is already moving.

Out of range.
Never out of reach.

When a lone worker presses SOS,
help is already moving.