Transcript Applications Summary

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Public Safety Related
Applications Summary
July, 2014
Application: Circuits that Monitor Railroad Crossings
 Public Safety Sector
Railroads and transportation systems
 Current Provisioning Method
Closed contact alarms provisioned over DS0 metallic circuits
 Typical Characteristics
• Typically pole mounted/weatherized equipment monitoring grade crossing
apparatus
• Isolated locations connected to centralized monitoring point
• Limited commercial power availability, in some cases
 Major Stakeholder Organizations
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Roadmap: Circuits that Monitor Railroad Crossings
 Transitional and Future Solutions (to be assessed)
• Ethernet-based remote alarming
• M2M monitoring service
• …
 Best Practice Examples
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Application: Alarm Circuits to Local Fire and Police
 Public Safety Sector
Local fire departments and local/state/federal law enforcement
 Current Provisioning Method
DSO Voice Grade and Metallic circuits
 Typical Characteristics
• Intrusion/fire alerts and burglary protection to high profile public & private
buildings, out-of-hours open door alarms for schools, etc.
• Relies on tones delivered over voice grade circuits and closed contact
alarms over metallic circuits
• Specialized subclass of alarm services directly connected to fire and police
 Major Stakeholder Organizations
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Roadmap: Alarm Circuits to Local Fire and Police
 Transitional and Future Solutions (to be assessed)
• Ethernet-based remote alarming
• Wireless-based solutions
• …
 Best Practice Examples
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Application: Sensor Circuits for Gas and Power Companies
 Public Safety Sector
Gas, power, energy, water, waste and oil refining industries
 Current Provisioning Method
Digital Data Services, DS0 Voice Grade and Metallic circuits
 Typical Characteristics
• Broad range of sensor devices reliant on tones, contact closures and low
speed data circuits
• Frequently rely on SCADA systems for centralized supervisory control
• Fixed point sensors in remote/isolated locations; ruggedized equipment
 Major Stakeholder Organizations
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Roadmap: Sensor Circuits for Gas and Power Companies
 Transitional and Future Solutions (to be assessed)
• Ethernet-based remote telemetry and metering solutions
• M2M monitoring service
• …
 Best Practice Examples
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Application: Meter & Alarm Circuits Related to Power Grid
 Public Safety Sector
Electrical utilities
 Current Provisioning Method
Protective relay application over metallic DSO circuits
 Typical Characteristics
• Support control signals for high voltage power line circuit breakers
• Used to shut down power grid facilities during an event
• Relay operation commonly used to isolate equipment
 Major Stakeholder Organizations
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Roadmap: Meter & Alarm Circuits Related to Power Grid
 Transitional and Future Solutions (to be assessed)
• Ethernet-based LAN networking
• M2M technology at remote locations and cloud computing to analyze data
• …
 Best Practice Examples
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Application: Circuits for Underground Communications
 Public Safety Sector
Transportation systems
 Current Provisioning Method
DSO metallic and voice grade circuits; Digital Data Services (DDS)
 Typical Characteristics
• Extension of underground communications in subways and tunnels
• POS swipe machine in underground transportation systems
• Path loss challenges for radio solutions
 Major Stakeholder Organizations
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Roadmap: Circuits for Underground Communications
 Transitional and Future Solutions (to be assessed)
• Repeatered wireless solutions
• Emerging small cell technologies
• Ethernet-based solutions for voice and data
 Best Practice Examples
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Application: FAA Circuits to Towers and Alarms
 Public Safety Sector
FAA and aviation related applications
 Current Provisioning Method
Digital Data Service (DDS) circuits
 Typical Characteristics
• Remote monitoring towers connected to air traffic control
• Isolated locations connected to centralized monitoring point
• Security and low-latency TDM-based solutions
 Major Stakeholder Organizations
FAA
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Roadmap: FAA Circuits to Towers and Alarms
 Transitional and Future Solutions (to be assessed)
• TDMoIP – based solutions
• Low latency / secure mobile solutions
• …
 Best Practice Examples
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Application: Other Circuits to be Assessed
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Telephony circuits between a dispatch device and an analog repeater
(including inband signaling for control of the repeater)
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Circuit-based paging systems for public safety sector (e.g. volunteer
fire departments and EMS)
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Public safety communications and alarms on campuses and other
secure locations
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Alarms and communications on elevator systems
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Dispatch console to EMS, Fire, Police
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Firebar Conference Bridge
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Base Station Control to EMS, Fire and Police
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Private Line Automatic Ringdown circuits for EMS, Fire, Police
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