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Interfacing systems for border security
Enhancing fire safety in Denmark
and services to 1500 fire officers across 19 of southern Denmark’s 22 municipalities. With the new radios and services, the fire
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fter several years of development and a rigorous testing programme carried
out by Cassidian and the Romanian Ministry of Administration and Interior, fully-certified interoperability has become a reality between two TETRA systems in Romania. Information can now be shared in real time between the country’s border police and its security forces during joint operations. An Inter-System Interface (ISI)
developed by Cassidian in accordance with the TETRA interoperability standards offers extended coverage for users on both the Cassidian and Motorola (PHARE) networks. This includes access over the TETRA national platform to all locally available functions (air interface encryption, authentication, packet data services, short data messaging), as well as cross-system communications (individual calls, PABX calls and short data services between terminals connected to different networks). Through the radio terminals’ automatic
roaming feature, visiting the other network requires no action by the user. The ISI is also a key component for the integration of the Border Police automatic vehicle location system, enabling positional information to be shared with security forces using the national TETRA platform.
Top: Romania’s Integrated System for Border Security (SISF) will provide border police with a coherent TETRA network in all border areas and will act as the national TETRA platform for all governmental security forces in these areas
services will be able to migrate easily from analogue to digital communication, gaining improved performance in voice and data transmission, increased efficiency through remote terminal management and reliability through secure encrypted communications. In addition, fire brigades will be able to communicate at the touch of a button with other agencies on the nationwide SINE network. “Fire services in southern Denmark are aiming towards a modernization of their communications technology”, said Søren Ipsen, fire chief in Kolding municipality and leader of the steering group for the chief fire officers in southern Denmark. “Motorola’s intuitive devices offer our personnel superior sound and voice quality and a compelling customer service portfolio with training programme, a customer helpdesk as well as an Integrated Terminal Management (iTM) solution. With iTM, we are now able to run software updates remotely, so the fire services will have the latest features enabled on their devices to fulfil their mission.”
otorola has won a tender to supply a diverse and extensive portfolio of Tetra digital radio terminals
Remote
management Te iTM system will allow each municipality to remotely manage the software and configurations of every radio terminal from a central location, improving the speed and reliability with which software updates can be carried out. Motorola will supply
a variety of rugged terminals, such as a portable enhanced Tetra control head, the MTM800E, and the compact, lightweight MTP850S, featuring an intuitive mobile phone style interface. A ‘man down’ function can send an alert to the dispatcher if the radio tilts past a defined angle or does not move within a given period of time. Motorola will also supply two ATEX
models designed for environments containing potentially explosive gas and dust. Tese will be used by ‘smoke divers’.
Intuitive: Motorola’s MTP850S handportable has a familiar user interface, similar to a mobile phone
Tetra terminals from Motorola, including intrinsically-safe handportables, will help Danish fire brigades in several municipalities to secure the safety of more than one million citizens
8 TE TRA TODAY Issue 1 November 2010 - February 2011
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