Amper participates in the "Hit-Gate" consortium, which will allow communication accross the different European Emergency Corps networks

Amper recently announced its participation in the European project HIT-GATE, whose goal is to develop a gateway that enables communication across networks that are currently used by the European Emergency Corps, which uses a large number of different and incompatible technologies, which may compromise the efficient coordination of combined operations such as cross-border or crisis management.

The HIT-GATE consortium is also formed by Thales, the Security and Trust Cluster of the Community of Madrid and by French, Polish, Portuguese, Greek, Dutch, Slovenian, British and Spanish institutions.

HIT-GATE's total budget, financed by the European Union's 7th R&D Framework Program, is 5.05€ million, of which 856,477€ correspond to project leader Thales, followed by Amper with 695,000€ and the rest of consortium participants.

Amper leads the hardware tasks to develop adapters that allow the different communications systems to transform to the world of IP, and participates in the majority of the other work packages.

"This project strengthens our strategy to consolidate our position in mobility and radio communications systems, both in own and financed developments,"states Rafael de Solís, Amper's Security Division Director. He goes on to say, "Thanks to HIT-GATE, the European organizations responsible for Public Safety, who have greatly invested in critical technologies dedicated to guaranteeing a high degree of availability and reliability, may keep their current systems, since our objective is to enable communication across these networks that are currently used by European Emergency units."

Among the technologies currently used for European public safety management are mainly specific technologies such as PMR (Professional Mobile Radio) or TETRA (TErrestrial Trunked RAdio), and also next-generation networks or ad-hoc mesh broadband networks, able to provide and extend connectivity over areas affected by a crisis situation.

Source: Amper