ISITEP Completes Workshop and Second Trial Successfully

The First ISITEP Workshop was held in Brussels during the PSCE (Public Safety Communication Europe) conference on May18th 2016.

PSCE Conference & co-located Workshop on Ethical, Legal, Social Issues in PPDR Networked Information Exchange gathered users, industry representatives and researchers from the ‘public safety communication’ domain, discussing about Future communication networks, Pan European Information Space, Handling emergency and How Copernicus and Galileo services support crisis management.

Etienne Lezaack, as representative of ISITEP consortium, illustrated the project and its achievements during a presentation titled Global solution for interoperability between PPDR communication systems.

The main goal of ISITEP is to realize a future-proof pan-European framework for the integration of different Public Protection & Disaster Relief (PPDR) national organizations, merging communications technology, operational procedures and the legal framework and deliver operational procedures, functional models and legal agreement in an integrated European communication network framework with new smart terminals. 

The project has achieved so far most of its technical objectives. The main results are:

• Formalization of the end-user requirements
• System architecture definition (mesh network of ISI gateways and associated security gateways)
• Release of four gateways prototypes
• Detailed design of the TETRA-TETRAPOL Enhanced Terminal
• Assessment of the procedures for cross border operations across Sweden and Norway
• Release of four trials plans and requirements
• The release of the TETRA-TETRA, TETRA-TERAPOL and TETRAPOL-TETRAPOL gateway prototypes; the gateways integration and test plan and a consistent progress of the ISI over IP public specification within ETSI
• Detailed design of the enhanced terminal sub components
• Interoperability enabling tools detailed design with release of Open public functional specifications for Infrastructures Dimensioning and Training and Simulation tools

ISITEP Trials

The First run of the trial has been performed on 26th April 2015, involving Dutch C2000, German BDBOS and Belgian ASTRID TETRA networks, with the aims of demonstrating the feasibility of a police cross border cooperation using the ISITEP procedures, network technology, terminals, support-ing tools and associated benefits. During the trial communications over ISI gateways allowed interoperability and migration of terminals.

The second run of the trial, a police hot pursuit scenario was performed today 25th May 2016 in the province of Limburg, The Netherlands.

The Police hot pursuit demo aims to demonstrate the feasibility of a police cross border cooperation in a scenario involving Dutch, German and Belgium TETRA networks, where communications over ISI gateways will allow interoperability and migration of terminals. This second ‘Three Country Pilot’ will be a small scale cross border field exercise, where the procedures for a joined operation between police organizations from the three countries will be played out.