The proceedings of The Amsterdam C2000 project

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The proceedings ofThe Amsterdam C2000 project

• Rob Dignum
• Amsterdam Police

12 country meeting, 21-09-2000
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Topics

• Procurement of Mobile Data Terminals
• Our history on Mobile Data
• Functional and Technical requirements

• Procurement of TETRA radios

• Procurement of Dispatch System

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Our history on Mobile Data (1)

• 1991

• Introduction of the MDT (Motorola 9100-10)

• 150 vehicles in use
• Key mobile applications
• communication with dispatch center
• checking license plates and persons
• mail

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Our history on Mobile Data (2)

• TETRA, C2000 project
• Ready for next generation MDT

• 1997

• end of life cycle of old MDTs
• end of current frequency
• stronger safety regulations (air bag)
• stronger user demands

• MOBIPOL application, national standard

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Our history on Mobile Data (3)

• 
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• off the shelf products are not suited for
  European cars
• screen size
• luminance
• environmental conditions
• power management
• use of materials
• A keyboard is necessary for data-input
• Touch Screen is an alternative pointing device

• May 1999

• Touch Screen experiment

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Our history on Mobile Data (4)

• Mar 2000

• European Tender for a MDT

• Key pre conditions
• Car independent solution
• Carrier independent solution
• Applications Mobipol and Intranet
• Safety
• Ergonomics
• Operational use
• Maintenance
• Approved prototypes
• Future requirements

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Our history on Mobile Data (5)

• Sept 2000

Current status

• 16 suppliers applied for pre-selection,
• 3 underwent pre-selection,
• 2 passed the pre-selection, but ...

• no offers ?
• procedure Awarding by negotiation
• 25 companies are invited for a presentation and
  react on our requirements
• new offers expected in January 2001

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Functional and Technical requirements (1)

• Modular design

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Functional and Technical requirements (2)

• Ergonomics

• Readability of screen for both driver and
  co-driver
• Operability of keyboard and pointing device
  (touch screen or mouse) for co-driver
• Size of screen
• lower limit touch screen operation
• upper limit safety of mounting
• Luminance of screen gt 600 Cd/m2
• Contrast and Reflection

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Functional and Technical requirements (3)

• Safety

• Maintain integral safety system of the car
• air bags, safety belt, car seat
• No increased risk of injury at a car crash
• No loose components
• No obstacles for driver and co-driver
• choice of materials
• Free sight on the road
• Emergency button

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Functional and Technical requirements (4)
Applications

• Now
• Windows NT
• Mobipol
• intranet

• Near future
• thin client architecture
• integration of car controls
• navigation, AVL
• electronic payment
• biometric authentication
• Blue Tooth, wireless updates
• speech synthesis and speech recognition

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Functional and Technical requirements (5)

• Controls

• on/off
• volume
• light intensity of screen
• light intensity of keyboard
• contrast of screen
• signalling of power supply
• emergency button

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Functional and Technical requirements (6)
Interfaces and Connectors

• Essential
• 1 parallel connector
• 2 serial connectors
• 1 screen connector
• 1 mouse connector
• 1 keyboard connector
• 1 loudspeaker connector
• 1 microphone connector
• 1 power connector
• 1 SCSI connector

• Optional
• 1 USB port
• 1 Ethernet port
• 2 extra serial connectors (GPS)
• 2 free ISA slots
• 2 free PCI slots

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Functional and Technical requirements (7)

• Environmental conditions

• Temperature -250C 700C

• Humidity 10 90
• Moisture and dust IP54

• Mechanical conditions ETS 300 019-1-5

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Functional and Technical requirements (8)

• Power management

• UPS for back-up of car battery
• 4 hours autonomy

• intelligent power management
• active mode
• economy mode
• off mode

• signalling functions

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Functional and Technical requirements (9)

• Summary

• Our MDT specifications are based on a TOTAL
  solution
• Car and Carrier independent
• Safety and Ergonomics
• Operational use and Maintenance
• prepared for Future requirements

• The specifications are available and open for
  your feedback

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Procurement of TETRA radios

• The Pilot Region has stopped the European
  tender process

• lack of functionality
• e-t-e-encryption, packet data, dual watch, SIM,
  ...
• lack of accessories
• bad speech intelligibility in noisy environment
• problems with maintenance and acceptance tests
• not possible to do layer 1 tests
• 2nd generation radios ???

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Procurement of Dispatch System

• Final offer to TetraNed
• Key subjects of discussion are
• Functionality
• Software development
• Price

Final contract is expected in December 2000
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Summary

• Mobile Data Terminals
• start procedure Awarding by negotiation
• request your feedback on our requirements

• TETRA Radios
• 2nd generation is postponed until end 2002
• 1st generation maybe improved
• wait for right moment to start a new tender

• Dispatch System
• contract expected in December 2000