Data and Data Applications

Helen Cheung

Motorola

Agenda

• Market requirements

• Why a dedicated TETRA Network?

• How is TETRA addressing current market requirements?

• Evolution and future vision

• Data on TETRA case story

Agenda

• Market requirements

• Why a dedicated TETRA Network?

• How is TETRA addressing current market requirements?

• Evolution and future vision

• Data on TETRA - case story

What are customers’ requirements?

• Improve operating efficiency, productivity– Flexible coordination – Constant communication

• Improve employee safety• Improve operations security• Enhance ease of public access

to services– Facilitate data sharing– Integrate new applications with existing systems– Enable secure access to information from anywhere

• Simple, cost effective system expansion and enhancements

What are the data requirements?

• Centralised resource management & operations safety:– Automatic Vehicle Location

– Automatic Person Location

• Improved Productivity:– Report Writing

– Email

• Improved Communications:– Texting

– Paging

– File/image transfer

• Information Exchange:– Image (point to point)– Finger Print System (AFIS)– Video– Biometrics

• Database Enquiries:– Directory services (internal)– Vehicle plate register– Voter register– Quick address service (external)– Criminal intelligence system– Operational information systems– Property (lost & found)– Building layouts– Medical records

Improve Operational Efficiency

• Improve response times – Ability to make right and fast decision based on facts

• Improve effectiveness – Ability to prioritise decisions & task

• Improve resource management– Ability to track and protect staff– Ability to control fleet for better results

• Improve productivity– Automated work flow– Improve cost effectiveness

Data

Information

Knowledge

Wisdom

“Moving information to the point of decision” Sir Edmund Burton, Head of PITO

Data ApplicationsBack Office Information sources

Vehicle/Person• Incident Dispatch• Database Enquiry• Mobile Messaging• Field Report Writing• Radio Control• Mug shots

• AVL/Mapping Server• Database Inquiries• Records Management• Console Dispatch/Switch• Message Switch• GPS tracking• Fleet management

Control room

• Accounts Receivable• Personnel/Administration• Payroll• Parking Tickets• Fingerprinting• Passenger Information• Video surveillance

• National/Regional Criminal Database

• Prison Database• Justice/Courts Database• Local Crimes Database• Telemetry• Medical journals

TETRA Network

Agenda

• Market requirements

• Why a dedicated TETRA Network?

• How is TETRA addressing current market requirements?

• Evolution and future vision

• Data on TETRA - case story

Operational challenges between Commercial & Dedicated networks• Commercial networks by definition cater

for the mass market – consumers & business users – often many millions of users

• Mission critical organisations operating on a commercial network would compete with ordinary users for capacity

• A dedicated network allow organisations to control & manage the network and resource allocation

• Secure communications are increasingly needed for mission critical operations

End-User Empowerment

• Developed by ETSI • EU Emergency Services involved• Specific Choice vs. GSM or

proprietary solutions

• Open digital standard• Multiple Vendor Sourcing• High Pace of Innovation• Protection of Purchase Decision• Intersystem roaming (ISI)

• TETRA feature set• Wide Area Coverage• Dispatch Operation• Fast Call Set-Up• Encryption Services• Mobile Data

• Spectrum efficiency

User-Driven Standard for Integrated Mission Critical Communications

PacketData

Cellular Telephony

Workgroup Management

MobileTelephony

(Full Duplex Voice)Fast, Efficient Data Delivery

(Group, Individual, Priority

Emergency, DMO)

SECURE

TETRA Memorandum of Understanding (MoU), represents 100 organizations from 30 countries

Additionally, 200 companies are involved in the development of applications

Agenda

• Market requirements

• Why a dedicated TETRA Network?

• How is TETRA addressing current market requirements?

• Evolution and future vision

• Data on TETRA - case story

Evolution: Applications over TETRA

TETRA 1 Circuit Data

TETRA 1

Short Data Services

TETRA 1

Single Slot Packet Data

TETRA 1 Multi-slot Packet Data

TETRA 2

High Speed Data

Database search

AVL

Email

File transfer e.g

Still images

Slow scan video

QoS managed video

Not suitable Suitable Effective

today

TETRA IP Packet DataPartitions to allow multiple organisations to share the TETRA network

Hospital Journals

Fire Voice Communications

IP over TETRA & TETRA over IP

Voice

Data

– Each agency operate their closed network – Individual user groups cannot “see” into each others’ networks

– Data tunnel across the network, creating a private & confidential link

– Functionality is available for both voice & data services

– Data can be encrypted by the application

Multi-slot Packet Data

• TETRA single-slot packet data – fulfilling much of today’s data transmission requirements

such as sending and receiving files and images

• Multi slot packet data (MSPD): up to four times faster• MSPD will enable mission critical services to respond

quicker and be more efficient • MSPD is part of the TETRA open standard

Service Interaction - Pre-emption

• Multi slot packet data offers the capability of pre-emption

• Allocated as dynamic single slot channels– Multi slot channels can be partially or completely resource

pre-empted

• The channels are pre-empted & expanded “on the fly”– No service interruption

• Pre-emption of dynamic single slot channel

Pre-emption Example

Multi slot

MCCH V V SS

Pre-emption Example

Multi slot

MCCH V V SS

V

Voice channels are full and another radio is requesting voice communication

Pre-emption Example

MCCH V V SS

V V V V

Agenda

• Market requirements

• Why a dedicated TETRA Network?

• How is TETRA addressing current market requirements?

• Evolution and future vision

• Data on TETRA - case story

Data evolution history in TETRA

TETRA 1 MSPD TETRA 2 Future

SDS

Telemetry - MessagingDatabase searchAVL

File & still images

E-mails

PDS

MSPD

Slow scan video

QoS managed video

TETRA2

MSPDWith Pre-emption

Years/Technology

Complexity

High Speed Data on TETRA

Legend:Circle size = coverage areaCircle height = data speed

Several future alternatives:TETRA 2, WLAN, Wideband, more?TETRA 3?

Although MSPD is a big step forward for media-rich applications, it is not the end of the evolution

The future of communications …

• Technology maturation will result in applications explosion

• A much more user centric content that is device and context sensitive will rule

• Privacy, safety and security for any mission critical market will preside

“Moving information to the point of decision”

Sir Edmund Burton, Head of PITO

Agenda

• Market requirements• Why a dedicated TETRA Network?• How is TETRA addressing current market

requirements? • Evolution and future vision

• Data on TETRA - case story

Data on TETRA

Real

In use

Appreciated

An example from the real life

Hereford and Worcester Ambulance

• Part of the AIRWAVE digital radio network • Xxx vehicles• Direct communication with 6 hospitals• Population: more than 720.000• Geographical coverage: close to 4 000 square Km

TETRA IP data which saves lives

• Automatic vehicle location– enables control centre to appropriately direct and monitor

fleet location

• Remote programming of in-vehicle satellite navigation systems– helps crew to identify most efficient route

• In-vehicle data terminals – alert crews to emergencies– if the alert is not 'accepted' within 30 seconds the system

automatically pages the health professional

TETRA IP data which saves lives

• Status messaging– ability for crews to send status messages to control centre

eg. notifying arrival at scene

• IP data solution to transmit live biometrics information from patient’s side to Consultant at hospital – electrocardiogram, blood gas and blood pressure data to

facilitate remote prescription of powerful drugs complete – system automatically generates patient record forms enabling

prompt attention when the ambulance arrives at hospital– supports audit trail

Hereford and Worcester Ambulance Launch Mobile Data and Automatic Vehicle Location Press statement 9 February 2004

Saving lives The Ambulance Services Project Manager, Dominic Robertson, said

“This system will greatly enhance our ability to get to patients as quickly as possible and, just as importantly, to ensure that life-saving, clot busting drugs can be administered to the patient by the Paramedics as soon as possible.”

What Users Says about TETRA Data

Jeff Parris

Vice President Airwave mmO2

Any questions?

• TETRA MOU - http://www.tetramou.com/

TETRA the Mission Critical Communications Solution

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