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Frequentis has been selected to supply all control rooms to the Norwegian Police, Fire and Health Agencies. The BAPCO Journal reports...
Late last year, the Norwegian Authorities decided to start final negotiations for the delivery of the new country-wide data and communications network based on TETRA technology exclusively with Siemens AS, Norway. As a sub-supplier to Siemens, Frequentis will be responsible for supplying the Control Rooms within this project. During 2007 the rollout will start with the first Control Rooms in the Oslo area and run for a couple of years until the last installations up in Svalbard (also known as Spitzbergen).
Frequentis will supply its Voice Communications Solution (VCS) for small and medium size Control Rooms based on state-of-the-art technology. The operators of each of the Public Safety Agencies will be able to receive and make calls to and from the telephone network, the existing analogue radio as well as the new TETRA network. It will even be possible to transfer calls or to make conference calls between this three different means of communication. The operator can also for example receive a pictures from a mobile phone via MMS, edit it and forward it to the TETRA terminal of the police officer out on the street all the new and fashionable forms of communications all of us are used to handle in our daily live will be supported.
Principally there will be in every one of the Police Districts one Fire (110), one Police (112) and one Health (113) Control Room, as well as central training and education centres. The Health Agencies will operate in addition Municipal General Practitioner on Call Centres (Legevakt) and Control Rooms for Accident and Emergency Departments in hospitals.
Hannes Bardach, Managing Director and owner of Frequentis stated, “We are really proud that our solution. a combination of leading edge technology and a fully task-oriented, intuitive Graphical User Interface, was chosen to ease the day to day work of hundreds of Public Safety Agents throughout Norway. It is important to bring all the new and mighty features of the TETRA network to the finger-tips of the users in a way most convenient and easy to use”.
Frequentis in Norway and international
Frequentis already has some important references in Norway, so the Austrian high-tech company is not really a newcomer in this country. Just last year Frequentis delivered to AVINOR an Area Control Centre in Bodø and a Tower-system for the Værnes Airport near Trondheim. Also the Norwegian Coastal Radio (Kystradio), operated by TELENOR Maritime Radio, is equipped with Control Room technology from Frequentis.
Public Safety Control Rooms connected to TETRA-technology Frequentis already delivered to several Public Safety organisations in the United Kingdom, like Lothian and Boarders Police near Edinburgh or the Metropolitan Police in London. But also in other countries Frequentis set up successfully TETRA Communication Centres, e.g. for the Olympic Games in Athens 2004 or – just in progress – in Doha, Qatar, for the Asian Games which took place in December 2006.
