2016 International TETRA Awards are open for entries
The TCCA and TETRA Today are proud to announce that nominations for the 2016 International TETRA Awards are now open.
The awards are designed to recognise excellence in the installation of TETRA radio communications. The wide range of award categories offers opportunities for products, services and solutions of merit across the full range of TETRA activity.
"Just five years ago there was no independent mechanism to recognise TETRA excellence. Today we see an established and recognised global programme to celebrate achievements enabled by TETRA technology. The ongoing success of the International TETRA Awards reflects the strength of the industry and the consistently impressive innovation demonstrated by members of the TCCA." says Phil Kidner CEO TCCA.
TETRA Award Categories
Best use of TETRA for Public Safety
This focuses on entries that display excellence in public safety. Entries will be judged on data security on safeguards, full adoption of TETRA capabilities across a range of platforms, scalability, interoperability, efficient use of broadband, and crucially, reliability.
Best TETRA Innovation
This award is aimed at solutions, products and services across all sectors that demonstrate true ingenuity. Judges will be looking for systems, business cases and solutions that are uncommon yet have yielded excellent results.
Green TETRA Award
This category celebrates TETRA systems that show a clear eco-friendly objective. Here judges will be looking for evidence that 'green' thinking has been a major priority throughout the design, implementation and end use of the product or solution.
Best use of TETRA for Transport
Transport is one of the fastest-growing applications of TETRA technology around the world. This category recognises this, and will be judged on the most outstanding technologies, systems or solutions which meet the sector's particular requirements.
Best use of TETRA in Utilities
Increased communication needs among utility businesses have encouraged more and more to focus on digital radio as a versatile bearer for voice and data traffic. This category will highlight elegant and effective TETRA solutions within the utilities sector.
Best single-site TETRA installation
Although TETRA began as technology for large-scale radio networks, creative engineering design has brought the functionality and performance benefits of big TETRA to the smallest installations. This award celebrates the best of these small systems.
Best integration of future broadband with TETRA
Applicable across solutions, products and services, and all market sectors, this awards seeks examples of industry-leading innovation and engineering ingenuity in the integration of future broadband capabilities with current TETRA solutions or services.
