Special and Professional Mobile Radio in France

- High User Benefits

Vincent Delpont, Quality Manager, e*Message W.I.S. France

PMR Expo Köln 2013

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Customers value PMR

Reliability, security

Fast alerting (technology dependent: good with paging, poor with Tetra)

Not dependant on public networks

Easy to use

Adaptated to hard environnement

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PMR suffers however from limitations

Limited coverage

Shared frequencies

On site management

Some technologies are not adapted to fast and reliable alerting

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Mobile operated network, pros and consLarge coverage

Dedicated frequencies

But sensible to public traffic

Not adapted to emergency situations

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Evolution of PMR: the e*Message experiencee*Message operates a nP2M networks sharing the benefits of PMR and an operated network:

Reliability, security

Not dependant on Mobile or fixed public networks

Fast alerting

Easy to use

Dedicated frequencies

Nationwide coverage

Core network redundancy

Big customer base

Professional management

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nP2M is narrowband Point to Multipoint, a service suite which includes for instance the basic “paging” application

As part of nP2M, a number of services are defined

General Citizens Information (e.g. Weather Alert)Control and Reduce Energy Consumption Social Alarm (Households, Education, Industry)First-Responder Alerting

Place of nP2M in ETSI Emergency Telecoms

Between Authorities: Alarming of millions of

first responders

AtoC

AtoA

CtoA

From Authorities to Citizens: Weather and other Alerts

Communication in Critical and

Crisis Situation

From Citzens to Citizens: (partially) Paging

From Citzens to Authorities: mostly not

realized by nP2M

CtoC

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e*Message, nP2M provider

nP2M implementation: sirens alerting exampleAn e*Message receiver is embedded in a siren control command box

Depending on the customer requirements, a single siren or a group of sirens can be powered on through e*Message network

Simultaneous powering on of several sirens and immediate alerting of the population

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Power supply

Alert message

Transmission of the command

Signal sequencing

Signalbroadcasting

Evolution of the needs, new services from e*Message

Customers requests:

how to benefit from PMR pros without its cons?

Is it possible to benefit from a global solution for alerting, embedding all the telecommunications media?

What about a SAAS solution?

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Answer from e*Message: Isys solutionAll the benefits of e*Message specific position:

nP2M

reliable, fast, secured as PMR

Dedicated frequencies, nationwide coverage as operator

With new and unique services:

All in one solution for alerting

Easy to implement into an existing structure

Fully adaptable to customers requests

Reliable: e*Message network with its redundancy

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ISYS : an Alert management solution

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Feedback about IsysISYS Customers :

Are working on risky industrial activities (Nuclear, chemical etc)

Big customers made strategic decisions to use Isys

Need Extended paging coverage (at least regional )High availability

Multi telecom media (Pager, SMS, PSTN…)Redundant solution

PreferenceSaaS to internal hosted solution (24/24 support )Cost efficient solution (resources shared)

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Thank you for your attention

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ReferencesnP2M

SRdoc for nP2M

SRdoc: System Reference Document.

Approved by ETSI WG ERM 8th of March 2013.Sophia Antipolis, Southern France.

Discussed in CEPT 77th WG FM meeting. Starting 22nd of May 2013. Amsterdam, NL: A new WGFM correspondence group CG on narrowband point-to-multipoint (N2MP) under the chairmanship of Sergey Pastukh was agreed to be installed.

Isys: http://www.isys-alerte.fr/

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