TETRA lone worker safety solution for French rocket motor firm
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A solid rocket motor manufacturer has adopted a TETRA radio solution to help improve lone worker safety and communications coverage at its large industrial complex in France, which employs some 1,200 workers.
From a vast plant in Haillen, Snecma Propulsion Solide, part of the Safran group, designs and manufacturers solid rocket motors for missiles and space launchers. The plant’s extensive campus, which has numerous buildings housing research, manufacturing and office facilities, presents a number of barriers to seamless communications in certain areas of the site.
The plant is using Sepura STP8000 hand-portable radios with man-down functionality, as part of a TETRA solution deployed by Sepura and its French partner, Sysoco. According to Sepura, the TETRA radios have been integrated with Sysoco’s DIGIProtect system, which enables real-time management and tracking of Snecma’s TETRA radio fleet, through an indoor localisation system consisting of radio autonomous beacons and outdoor localisation deployed via the radio’s GPS receiver.
The STP8000’s man-down capability features an alert call for lone workers. A call is automatically generated when motion sensing technology detects loss of verticality of the device or absence of movement. Calls generated in this way are allocated priority transmission by DIGIProtect. The radio beacons at the heart of the DIGIProtect system are strategically placed to optimise indoor localisation in an alert scenario, when the radio would send its identity to the closest beacon.
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Source: www.landmobile.co.uk
