TETRA in PPDR environment Anssi Kuusela Board Member, TETRA Association CIO, City of Helsinki Rescue Department P.O.box 112 (Agricolankatu 15) FIN CITY OF HELSINKI tel: mobile:

TETRA in PPDR environment Finnish perspective: Finland participating: - peace keeping and crisis management (UN and EU-operations (NATO)) - disaster relief operations (bilateral aid, UN-/EU-operations  Finn Rescue, UNDAC, IHP) Finnish authorities network VIRVE for public safety and protection. Presentation discripes...  an overall picture of using TETRA based PMR system in PPDR environments Fire and Rescue Services, Ambulance services etc. in Disaster Relief operation and in exceptional circumstances  needs in large scale disaster situations.  very demanding, environment  Finally, an overview to future possibililties what we see with TETRA

Requirements for Radio Communication in “Public Protection and Disaster Relief” - environment Finnish perspective

VIRVE – Secure communication for Authorities USERS - Fire and Rescue Service - Police - Ambulanceservice - Social and health authority - Defence forces - Customs - Border guard - Some specially selected security authorities and companies WHY TETRA Group centric instant communication Fast response times Guaranteed availability of service Quick calls DMO Full control of resources InfoSec Combined radio, mobile telephony, messaging & IP data Virtual Private Networking to build shared networks - cooperation Powerful voice & dispatch features Much improved spectrum efficiency TETRA is the open ETSI standard for digital PMR - Multi vendor - Open standard

TETRA in Fire and Rescue Services Helsinki perspective

Business benefits Fire and Rescue organisation –Saving more lives (own and customers) –Arriving better informed –Co-operation –Management of talk groups –DMO –Emergency call –Information security –DATA services  Applications

C4I applications Homeland needs and international needs -work done already in Helsinki C4I for fire and rescue services  System operational  Positioning, management and leading, communication, analysing, backround information, reporting C4I for Ambulance services  ongoing project  Critical patient data from database to field and sent from the field to hospital C4I for Civil defence  Using Fire and Rescue C4I + special features

TETRA for disaster relief operations Finnish perspective

International Operations TETRA – future in crisis management and disaster relief? Finland supports UN/OCHA conducted UNDAC missions and EU-missions through EU mecanism and maintain FRF, Finn Rescue Force  Disaster relief * participation also in bilateral relief mission e.g. Flods, forest fire etc. in neighbouring area

Disaster relief operation – communication needs Communication needs - Ad hoc situation - Different organizations, large variety of communication equipment Humanitarian help and reconstructing Rapid Deployment Aid weeks/months/years Life-sustaining aid days

What are the basic characteristic features in disaster relief operations? - Destruction of infrastructure - No comms network - Variety of disasters – no precise standard plan of action What kind of needs for radio communication? - Ad hoc situation - Different organizations - co-operation needs  interoprability - large variety of communication equipment - in what phase joining operation - independency from locals - needs of own organization vs. co-operative needs

MOBILE MAST SYSTEM CONTAINER / SYSTEM SHELTER MICROWAVE LINK OPTICAL FIBRE CABLE TETRA-RADIOSYSTEM HF-RADIO LOCAL TRUNK NET MILITARY NET DCN DCN= Deployable COTS Network SAME PRINCIPAL CAN BE USED IN DISASTER RELIEF OPERATIONS

User and Operator view (Finnish military TETRA Kosovo) Finnish Communication system has got a lot of positive attention Users –Users are satisfied for the system, services and small mobile terminals –Because of the good network coverage security of the force has enhanced –Main service is group traffic –SMS is used very much, also for emergency messages –Data services wanted  Applications –Authorities on the area are very interested Operator –Container solution is good –Star shape of the transmission network has caused some unstable situations in the TETRA -network –Interference time to time. Need for measurement equipment –Easy to operate. Mobile management terminals are used.

Why TETRA for international operations? light device which is easy to handle for a single user a digital radio network with versatile services Tetra is used for the Public Safety radio Communication system in Finland (called VIRVE) Tetra is the official ETSI standard and finished COTS (standard) product  Multivendor system

Co-operation needs are there wherelse Change of basic information for assessment of situation –Regions political and cultural history –State and regional level administration –Public administration and services –Economical situation –Problems within population (employment, incomes, etc) –Movement of population (refugees, internally displaced persons) –International organisations with mandate and other civil organisations in the region, their mission and ability to act –Media Need for co-ordination and agreed course of action –Information change of incidents and other relevant information –Common operations, preparations and execution

UN Secretary-General Kofi Annan: ”Building sustainable peace” - Speech before the german Bundestag, Feb 28, 2002 ”All these tasks – humanitarian, military, political, social and economic – are interconnected, and people engaged in them need to work closely together. We cannot expect lasting succes in any of them unless we pursue all of them at once, as part of a recources are lacking of any one of them, all the others may turn out to have been pursued in vain.”

C4I applications Homeland needs and international needs -work done already in Finland C4I in fire and rescue services  System operational C4I in Ambulance services  ongoing project C4I in Civil defence  Using Fire and Rescue C4I C4I in international operations  ITCM?

FINALLY

European dimension – “What we believe in Finland” EU/Schengen mandate to create cross-border interoperability for police, customs etc systems National TETRA Public Safety networks built already in Belgium, Finland, The Netherlands, UK National projects in many other countries in various phases TETRA will be the common platform of interoperable Public Safety and protection systems across the EU and worldwide TETRA continues to be the solution for demanding mobile users in PMR sector Shared network improves communication and reduces cost – privacy maintained anyway Genuine multi-vendor market gives the power to the customer to pick the best products for each purpose. This keeps pricing also on reasonable level. In Europe the biggest user base comes from the national shared Public Safety and Security networks

Challenges in common Networks and Systems operationsin international Network operator and system administrator –Military organisation or Civil organisation ? –Operation level international coordinator ? Security issues –Common security procedures Access, authentication, encryption –Categories of information Public, Operation Unclassified, Restricted, Confidential, Secret –Usefulness of the System Too much information vs. not enough information Rotation of personnel TECHNOLOGY IS NOT THE OBSTACLE…

FUTURE - The next 10 years Regrettable inevitability of –natural and man made disasters –international crime and terrorism TETRA will be there –Users are investing millions –flexible technology –resilient solutions –open standard (multiple vendors) Handling more data applications (rel 2)  TETRA will continue to play a key part  TETRA fundamentals will remain relevant

Thank you! Any questions? Anssi Kuusela, Member of the TETRA MoU Board Chief Information Officer City of Helsinki Rescue Department P.O.box 112 FIN CITY OF HELSINKI tel mobile TETRA MoU Association P O Box 88 St Ives Cambridgeshire PE27 6PD England t f e