TETRA in Transportation

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TETRA in Transportation

• Alvin LIM
• 18 May 2005
• Kuala Lumpur

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• TETRA markets
• Radio system challenges in the Transportation
  market
• Why TETRA

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• TETRA markets
• Radio system challenges in the Transportation
  market
• Why TETRA

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Global TETRA contracts by region (as at July
2004, based on industry supplied public domain
data)
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Global TETRA contracts by sector(as at July
2004, based on industry supplied public domain
data)
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Whats hot in Asia(as at July 2004, based on
industry supplied public domain data)
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Transportation segments

• Land
• Railways
• Mass Rapid Transits
• Light Rail Transits
• Long haul
• High Speed
• Road
• Seaports
• Airports

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• TETRA markets
• Radio system challenges in the Transportation
  market
• Why TETRA

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Before TETRA

• Simple open channel communication
• Every individual listens to every other
  individual
• 1st come, 1st served
• No priority for important messages
• Limited coverage
• Radio black spots
• Out of reach with no back up
• Old analogue technology
• Speech can be difficult to understand
• Unintelligible communications with high
  background noise
• Important information can be lost
• Easy to scan frequencies, compromising operations
  
• Every team to themselves
• Minimum interoperability between teams
• Event crisis management difficulties

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Railway challenges

• Passenger safety
• Security
• High speed rail
• Data applications
• Train monitoring and control, information display
  systems, text messaging, AVLS
• Video / image transmission

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Road transportation challenges

• Intelligent transportation system
• AVLS, traffic information displays, bus arrival
  times, traffic image transmission

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Airport challenges

• Unprecedented air travel growth in the Asia
  Pacific
• Proliferation of budget airlines
• Competition between regional hubs for business
• Airports face the challenge of providing more
  efficient service in a competitive environment
  and mounting traffic loads.
• Need to expand the capacity of the radio system
• For more channels and also to ensure that the
  coverage area is sufficient.
• Need to be digital and data capable in order to
  be able to handle future mobile data requirements
• Integrate with airports backend systems for
  better workflow.

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Seaport challenges

• Unprecedented international trade growth in the
  Asia Pacific
• Competition between seaports
• Seaports face the challenge of providing more
  efficient service in a competitive environment
  and mounting traffic loads.
• Need to expand the capacity of the radio system
• For more channels and also to ensure that the
  coverage area is sufficient.
• Need to be digital and data capable in order to
  be able to handle future mobile data requirements
• Integrate with seaports backend systems for
  better workflow.

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Industry-wide issues

• Limited frequencies available
• Urban or high density environment
• High voice traffic
• Safety
• More information are analyzed to enhance
  operation and maintain safety.
• Safety features
• Security
• Security features
• Operational efficiency
• More applications are added to improve
  productivity and service.
• Better technologies and integrated solutions are
  employed to improve response to situations.
• Data applications

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• TETRA markets
• Radio system challenges in the Transportation
  market
• Why TETRA

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Why TETRA?

• Clear communications
• Without hiss, crackle or background noise
• TETRA is a digital technology
• Functional groups only listen to relevant
  communications
• No more confusion, no more lost messages
• TETRA provides privacy security
• Users are not locked to a single radio terminal
  supplier
• Healthy competition
• TETRA is an open approved standard

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Why TETRA?

• TETRA ensures better access to communications
• TETRA allows more users to make calls
• More users supported with same frequencies
• Better quality of service
• Old conventional systems, some channels were
  idle, while others were congested
• Old systems were inefficient

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Why TETRA?Three Services in One Radio

• Cellular type calls
• Offering call privacy to supervisors
• Telephone access
• Mobile data services
• Improving staff efficiency with faster access to
  information
• Passenger Information Systems, locations data
  database, address books, incident reports
• Group calls
• Instant calls to all team members
• Improving efficiency and enhancing staff safety

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Why TETRA?Even more reasons

• Voice and Data Facility
• Telephony
• DMO
• SDS
• IP Packet Data
• Mission critical features
• Emergency / safety features
• Secure radio system
• Interoperability
• Scaleable technology
• Intrinsically Safe terminals

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Summary

• TETRA offers the Transportation industry
• Spectrum efficiency
• Better voice quality
• Integrated voice and data
• Privacy security
• Mission critical features
• High vehicular speed mobility
• Multi vendor environment
• Easier integration with other systems
• Interoperability
• Intrinsic Safety