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TETRA Put To The Test: Case Studies From Hungarian Practice

(UDR)Mr. Géza Meichl,

Section Head, Office for Public Safety Organization,

Office of the Prime Minister

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Pre-History of UDR in Hungary

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The Unified Digital Radio Telecommunications (UDR) Network of The Hungarian Government

Start of Implementation- Public Procurement for Service Management Finished

Commissioner of The Unified Digital Radio Telecommunications Network of the Prime

Minister’s Office Mr. István Pesti Commissioner,

Secretariat for the Government Commissioner of The Unified Digital Radio

Telecommunications Network

Presenter: Dr. Bálint Molnár, PhD technical informatics, Principal Consultant for the Secretariat

Associate Professor of Corvinus University of Budapest

1 December, 2005

Service Provider

TWC 2005

42007

TWC 2007UDR- Implementation Finished – Start of Radio Communication

Service Country-wide

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Main point of the Talk

1. Evaluating the configuration and installation of a mobile base station in the event of a communication failure

2. Achieving co-operation between agencies on both the same and different VPNs

3. Achieving command and control including voice communication and AVL during simultaneous riots

4. Employing data transmission for an emergency alarm system

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Hungary

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• Ministry for Justice and Police

– Police and Border Police

• Ministry of Local Government and Regional Development

– Fire Brigade

– Civil Protection (Disaster recovery)– Rescue Services

• Ministry of Finance

– Customs and Excise Service• Ministry of Health

– Ambulance Service / Medical Emergency, rescue service

• Ministry for Environment Protection and Water – Water and Flood management – Forest rangers

• Hungarian Military Organizations

The major stakeholders and user groups of UDR (Unified Digital Radio Network in Hungary)

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Features of the UDR systems

• AVL (Automatic Vehicle Location) service is available– GPS location service in operational use

• Connectivity for PSTN, PABX, GSM networks is operational• TCP/ IP services for readily available for various applications

– WAP services for WAP enabled radio terminals

• Short Data Service in operation• The basic TETRA functional services (group call, emergency

call, etc.) reliably working• Dedicated Virtual Private Networks (VPN) for the public safety

services are set up– Basic principal: each public safety organization has its own single

VPN

• There are central VPN management systems both at Service Provider and at an Office of the Public Administration

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Features of the UDR systems

• Underground tunnel system for metro / tube in the capital, Budapest– leaky coaxial cables (LCX) along

underground tunnels

• Value Added Services– Mobile Command, Control Systems– Anticipated: Integration with the 112

European Emergency Number Response Centres in Hungary

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Governance structure of UDR

Service Provider Company for UDR

Section for Public Safety Services

Prime Minister’s Office

Commissioner for eGovernment

Users’ Group of UDR Technical experts’ forum

Public Safety Services Service-oriented relationship Customer Service

management

Board of Directors

Supervisory Board

Business Unit

Contractual relationship

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Governance structure of UDR

• Delegated civil servants / public officers to Service Provider Company’s– Supervisory Board – Board of Directors

• Direct monitoring and reviewing of the business

• Section for Public Safety Services within Prime Minister’s Office– Interface between the Service Provider and User

Organizations– Contractual and technical level relationship

management, continuously

• Regular meetings of the Users’ Group

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Evaluating the configuration and installation of a mobile base station in the event of a communication failure

• There is a mechanism for incident management • The primary responsibilities at the Network Owner who is by

Force of Law:– The Minister leading of Prime Minister’s Office– The day-to-day responsibilities delegated to the Commissioner for

Centre for E-government

• The mobile base stations are readily available both in the event of incidents or pre-planned missions

– Equipped as a full scale mobile stations– Micro-wave connections can be built up– Frequency - dedicated to the mobile base stations– Network Operating System can incorporate (up to five) the mobile

base stations– Deployment time 1 hour– The transport vehicle is prepared for rough terrains– Action radius is the whole country

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Achieving co-operation between agencies on both the same and different VPNs

• There are central VPN management systems both at Service Provider and at an Office of the Public Administration

• The legal framework established by a Government Decree

• Each agency elaborates policy, standard and regulation for the use of radio network

• Within the general and individual legal framework the co-operation and interoperability is set up on the base of mutual agreement

• The technology level measurements carried out by central VPN management on demand being either ad-hoc or pre-planned

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VPNs and cooperation between Public Safety Agencies

VPN ID number

Ministries Public Safety Organizations

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Ministry of Defence

Military Services

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Ministry of Local Government and Regional Development

National Organization for Disaster Recovery and Civil Protection Fire Brigades Rescue Services

42 Ministry for Environment

Protection and Water

Water and Flood Management, Forest Rangers

40 Ministry of Health

Ambulance Service / Medical Emergency, Rescue service

44 Telecommunication Service of Hungarian Government

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Prime Minister’s Office

National Security Services

National Police Organizations

Border Police 3

Ministry for Justice and Police

National Penitentiary and Correctional Organization

50 Ministry of Finance

Customs and Excises

99 Service Provider of UDR VPN for Cooperation among other VPNs

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VPNs and cooperation between Public Safety Agencies

There are dedicated VPN-s for inter-agency cooperation

The Central VPN management can configure:Call groups statically

Call groups dynamically on request

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Achieving command and control including voice communication and AVL during simultaneous riots

• AVL (Automatic Vehicle Location) service is available– GPS location service in operational use– GIS function built-in– Integrated to TETRA standard service

• Fleet management• Alarm signals• Status messages

• AVL functionality deployed to certain dispatcher workstations

• There is mobile capability• There are command and control centres at

Public Safety organizations and Government level where the necessary TETRA functionality available

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VPNs and cooperation between Public Safety Agencies

• In the case of disasters and riots:The stakeholder agencies can use the

dedicated groups for cooperationThe national Police pre-programmed the PTT

button:– „Upper side” for commanders– „Lower side” for peer groups

Through AVL The units in action monitoredMoving the fleet of vehicles trackedMobile AVL unit for Police CommandersDetailed GIS maps

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Employing data transmission for an emergency alarm system

• Ministry of Local Government and Regional Development – Fire Brigade– Civil Protection (Disaster recovery)– Rescue Services

• Communication network for measuring, gathering and transferring of data about state of environment at major hazardous sites

• Exploiting the TETRA technology for data communication

• For the sake of efficiency, dedicated base stations incorporated into the basic infrastructure

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Use of Data Communication in UDR

Interface to the 112 Emergency Calls System (to be implemented)

SDS communication for• Querying central databases

– Vehicle registry– Personal credentials (ID card, driving

licence)– Citizen’s addresses of residence– Police warranties

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Thank you for your attention

…Questions?