Motorola Solutions Successfully Trials Live Video on Norway’s Public Safety Network

Motorola Solutions (NYSE: MSI), a leading provider of mission-critical communications solutions, today confirms that it has demonstrated video streaming over Norway’s Nødnett TETRA network using TETRA Enhanced Data Service (TEDS). As well as video services, a wide range of mission-critical data applications have been showcased over the TEDS system which has been optimized to work within a channel bandwidth size of 50 kHz. Other key public safety applications that have been successfully trialled include mobile fingerprint scanning and vehicle license database checks.

Together, with The Directorate for Emergency Communication (DNK), which leads the development of Norway’s nationwide TETRA Public Safety Network, Motorola Solutions has been running a detailed analysis of TEDS capabilities. The pilot project, in Notodden, south-eastern Norway, comes ahead of the planned roll out of higher-speed mission-critical data services across Norway on Motorola Solutions Dimetra IP™ base stations that are TEDS ready. Around one third of the 2,100 base stations in the Nødnett radio network are ‘TEDS-ready’. So with a simple software upgrade to implement TEDS, the network will enable a range of voice and data services, delivered with the security and reliability that’s essential for public safety agencies.

KEY FACTS

• The trial TEDS network is supporting live video streaming both to and from control rooms. Applications include streaming of video from officers’ emergency vehicles – to enhance their safety – and sending video feeds from a scene to improve incident response.
• The use of real-time video greatly enhances situational response and assists teams in better protecting themselves and the public.
• In addition to video, a range of applications over TEDS has been tested on Nødnett. These include licence-plate checks, remote access to databases – such as the electoral roll to check identities – and fingerprint scanning.
• The data applications are provided with the security and reliability that public safety agencies expect from TETRA networks.
• The TEDS pilot network in Notodden is successfully transmitting video in each direction between subscriber and base station. Data transmission without packet loss has also been demonstrated during handover between TEDS sites and between TEDS and TETRA Multi-Slot Packet Data sites.
• The end-to-end transfer of video, image and other data files have been achieved using 50kHz bandwidth radio carriers, highlighting the spectrum efficiency of TEDS. The network also is efficiently handling multiple parallel data sessions within the same base station coverage area.
• DNK will create a test and approval regime to ensure that applications are designed to optimise bandwidth and work well alongside existing applications on the network.
• Motorola Solutions’ Dimetra IP base stations can be upgraded to TEDS with a simple software upgrade to greatly accelerate deployment and cut costs