tetra experience – poland

TETRA Experience – Poland

Public Safety Shared Networks

Kees Verweij

ISC/C2000

June 2006 TETRA Experience - Poland

Background and involvement in TETRA

ISC: involved in TETRA since the early start in 1990– Myself: representing the Netherlands in Operator/User

Association,Technical Forum and ETSI TCTETRA

C2000 project in the Netherlands: country-wide shared TETRA network for Police, Fire brigade, Ambulance and Military Police


Agenda

How it starts (in the Netherlands) Pros and cons of a Shared Network Consequences The choices to make NL, Fin, B and UK experience Summary and conclusions


How it starts (in the Netherlands)

The old situation in the Netherlands:– >100 small analogue Public Safety radio networks using >1600 sites in

total• In 1 area 7 or more separate Public Safety radio networks

– Growing user demand for:• Enhanced features (status, AVLS, mobile data applications)• Cooperation with other Public Safety organisations• Cooperation with other areas• Higher security• More capacity

Police and fire brigade developed a plan for their own, separate national digital trunking system


How it starts (in the Netherlands)

Political decision: Their will be one, shared PS radio network: C2000– Will be built and operated under responsibility of the government– Should cover the user requirements of

• Ambulance

• Police

• Fire Brigade

• Military police


The benefits of sharing

Operational– Common and enhanced functionality, coverage and security– Possibilities for closer cooperation and new procedures

• Multi-disciplinary fleetmap• Common control rooms• Cross border operation

Economics– One network built and managed by a dedicated organisation

(“Policemen should be out on the street catching criminals”)– Larger volumes Lower prices for radios– High network capacity to the users (trunking efficiency)

Environment– Lower number of base stations sites


Perceived disadvantages of sharing

Tied to the operator: no direct influence on – Functionality– Coverage– Reliability

Security– Other users– Operator

Capacity – Guarantee during large incidents


Overcoming disadvantages

Before roll-out:– To ensure that user requirements are met by the network:

• User organisations should be involved in setting the requirements for the network

– The user organisations should closely work together on:• A national fleetmap structure including talkgroup priority settings

After roll-out– To ensure that the operator performs:

• User organisations should be represented in the political body controlling the operator

To fully exploit the possible advantages users should work on:– Common radio procurement providing a frame contract– Common control room procurement?


The consequences

Big investment:– High profile political environment

• Media attention

• External audits

– Extra requirements:• Should be future proof

• Should enable international cooperation?

• Common control rooms?

Many parties with different backgrounds involved– High complexity


The consequences

Higher requirements– cost explosion– extra delay

Develop a procedure between central government and users to define and weigh the user requirements


The choices to make: Potential Sharers

Decision on permitted sharers dependent on National Governments and importance of national response to a major disaster or emergency– Emergency Services– Government organisations– Military– Utilities– Transport– Others


The choices to make: Operator models

Government Operator– Dedicated organisation

• Pro: flexibility for adding coverage, capacity, new functionality

• Con: efficiency?, technical challenge

Commercial Operator– Long term detailed contract with professional commercial

organisation• Pro: clear responsibility

• Con: long term commitment?, less direct influence on coverage, capacity, new functionality


The choices to make: Fee/Cost Structure

How to split/differentiate between organisations• Same price for primary users and secondary users?

– Number of radios– Usage of the network

Different cost structures:– Monthly fee per radio/user organisation

• Pro: Stimulates the operator to perform• Con: Users may hesitate to use the new network

– Central budget• Pro: Stimulates the users to use the new network• Con: The operator may not perform and become inefficient

Service Level Agreements (SLAs) for use of network– Clear agreement on operator performance– (Monthly) reports showing network performance and actual usage


The Netherlands Experience

Main organisations: Police, Fire Brigade, Ambulance, Military police– 25 multi-disciplinary control rooms– >20 other Public Safety related organisations have limited

access under responsibility of one of the main organisations Government operator, central budget

Highlights:– During the project Ambulance and Firebrigade have strongly

improved their organisation structure– Successful large scale multi-disciplinary disaster training in April

2006


Belgium Experience

Network was built for more than 15 organisations, including:– Ambulance– Fire brigade– Customs

Semi-government operator, monthly fee

Highlights:– In the procurement 20 parties from 7 Ministries were involved– It has been hard to level the requirements of all the parties


Finnish Experience

Network built for wide user community, currently more than 20 different organisations, including:– Police– Fire and Rescue service– Frontier Guard– Military– Social and Health service– Municipalities

Government operator, monthly fee

Highlights:– Operational since 2002– Common control rooms


UK Experience

Network was built for Police Commercial operator, monthly fee

Highlights:– No participation from Fire brigade and Ambulance in beginning– Common sense prevailed and both Ambulance and Fire chose

to be a subscriber to Airwave– Next step: sharing common control rooms


Polish experience?

Who will be the users of a Public Safety TETRA network in Poland?


Common causes for historical problems

Emergency services have a different background and different organisation structures– government departments– Area– Financing model– Organisation grade– Operational need– Level of technical knowledge

.. which make it hard to work together on a project High media attention can introduce extra project complexity


Summary & Conclusions

Building a national Shared Public Safety Network – has many advantages to the users and the government– the possible disadvantages can be handled– is complex (mainly organisational)

Successful examples in B, Fin, NL and UK

A successful project for a Shared Network depends on getting and keeping all parties involved!

Thank You!!

Questions??

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