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Monitoring Poland’s TETRA scene H
osting TETRA Today’s visit to Poland was Mariusz Waruszewski, of TETRA Forum Poland, a one-stop online information hub for the country’s mobile radio community – and a useful resource for potential future TETRA users also. Launched more than three years ago, the web portal
brings daily updates of TETRA-related news from across Poland and around the world. “We are doing the quite important role of educating and informing users, telling them about the whole industry, about news, new products, services”, Mariusz explains. “We are in co-operation with major vendors and integrators here in the Polish market. We are in contact with the clients as well. I think we have a very important role for the whole community.” Mariusz brings to the project a deep knowledge
of telecommunications engineering and of TETRA in particular. His dissertation for his Master’s degree focused on TETRA, and his subsequent career has included system integration work and troubleshooting for Poland’s cellular phone networks, as well as a post as a TETRA system engineer working on the Warsaw Police network. He created TETRA Forum Poland as a private passion, but later it took him over and now he works on it full-time. With this background, he is in an ideal position to
provide an overview of TETRA activity in Poland. “The TETRA history in Poland is about 12 or 13 years old now”, he begins. “But the key point is that there is no national TETRA system in Poland. But TETRA is developing quite dynamically in small systems.” Many of these are in airports – and indeed nine
out of ten Polish airports have a TETRA installation in place.” The one exception, he explains, is that of Warsaw, the capital city. “The fi rst TETRA contract was signed by the police in the Warsaw metropolitan area in 1999”, Mariusz continues. “From this system there are many local police systems in Poland, deployed by Motorola. And then was developed a quite sophisticated command and control system with a data capability, with data checking and status messaging, etc., and many groups. This was developed for the police by Motorola. And the police
decided to deploy similar systems in Kraków, in Lodz and Szczecin.
“So these are islands of TETRA systems in
Poland. Even the police school in Szczecin has a system from EADS
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Mariusz Waruszewski, of TETRA Forum Poland – a comprehensive information source for the country’s mobile radio community. Visit
www.tetraforum.pl
(Cassidian) – they donated this system. And then there were implementations for logistics. The fi rst civil TETRA system was in place in 2001, in Gdansk – it was for urban transportation, communication with the buses. There was a single station but they expanded. And there is another in Wroclaw.” Despite efforts to develop a national TETRA system for the emergency services, the scheme ran into political and legal problems and has never received the go-ahead. Yet meanwhile, Mariusz continues, TETRA technology has fl ourished in many smaller- scale installations nationwide. In addition to airports, and the other systems featured on these pages, they include deployments for a big petrochemical plant, for transportation in several cities (intended as part of Intelligent Transport Systems), and even a military base. Among the biggest is a large Motorola system deployed in southern Poland for the energy distribution company Vattenfall. “The fi rst stage consisted of 28 sites and 1000 subscriber radios”, he says. “They are already in place now and they are fi nishing the second phase for 13 bases – so in time it will be 41, and I estimate that there will be about 200 sites in total.
“This is very important for the energy industry because we hope that the rest of the energy companies will follow this path. They are obliged to release their analogue frequencies within, I believe, 2017. So they must decide.”
TE TRA TODAY Issue 14 2013
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