SELEX Communications wins a 20-million-euro contract
This TETRA system is going into operation in 2012 and will be fully operating for the EXPO 2015.
SELEX Communications won, as mandatory of an
Enterprise Temporary Group, a 20-million-euro tender of Lombardy (Italy)
to implement a regional radio communication system, aiming at managing
emergencies and Civil Protection interforce headquarters activities.
Operations Center will be located in Milan. The
site will coordinate rescue missions of the whole region and will be
able to be connected to radio networks belonging to other Bodies
involved in emergency operations, in order to guarantee interoperability
and logistic support for interventions, especially in the most serious
cases.
This solution represents one of the most
all-round, innovative and widespread regional systems, based on a
variety of technologies aiming at meeting the different operational
needs of thoseservices which deal with the management of emergencies and
citizens' safety.
This system is going into operation in 2012 and will be fully operating
for the EXPO 2015, which will draw many visitors, especially during
opening and closing ceremonies.
The Enterprise Temporary Group - including Telecom Italia, GEG, Beta 80
and Larimart (a SELEX Communications company) - will deal with
technological enlargement and update of radio networks, which ensure
regional radio-connections for Civil Protection, emergency medical
service 118, fire fighting service and safety. Furthermore, a radio link
backbone, covering the whole territory and connecting broadcasting and
operations centers of the radio-communications system, will be
strengthened.
Once the system is at full capacity, it implies 450 DMR (Digital Mobile
Radio) Simulcast VHF and UHF repeaters and 22 TETRA sites - supplied by
SELEX Communications - , 90 radio links and thousands of mobile
transreceiving terminals, working both on board and in fixed posts.
In Italy, SELEX Communications is implementing a national radio mobile
network based on TETRA standard. Besides Lombardy, SELEX Communications'
TETRA has already been adopted by the regions of Veneto, Emilia Romagna
and the municipality of Cagliari. Moreover, TETRA is fully operating in
the regions of Basilicata, Campania, Calabria and in most of Piedmont,
within TETRA Inter-Polices Program (PIT), a national network for Police
Forces. In the world TETRA radio mobile systems are about 150, supplied
in more than 30 countries.
