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DESIGN | BUILD | MAINTAIN Wireless Communications TETRA Progress in the U.S. Progression from Pilot to Full Deployment in the U.S. Presented By: In Affiliation With Rick Nielson, PE President, Bay Electronics DESIGN

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Wireless Communications

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TETRA Progress in the U.S.

Progression from Pilot to Full Deployment in the U.S.

Presented By:

Rick Nielson, PE President, Bay Electronics

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TETRA Systems in North America

BC Hydro TETRA Pilot 2009 New Jersey Transit Pilot 2010 Green Bay, WI Pilot 2011 US Airports, LAX, JFK, EWR and SFO 2013-2016 Ontario Power Generation Nuclear Plants 2014 Diverse Power, Atlanta GA 2014 Dixie Electric (DEMCO) Baton Rouge, LA 2016 Flint Hills Pine Bend Refinery 2018 Invista Chemical Plant, Victoria TX 2019 Cooperative Energy, Hattiesburg MS 2019

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BC Hydro System

  • System awarded to Powertrunk October, 2011
  • 25 Sites at 403-430 MHz (UHF)
  • Covers the Vancouver BC and surrounding areas
  • 450 Mobiles, 350 Portables and 20 Control Stations
  • 3 Command and Control Centers with 14 Consoles
  • Evaluated TETRA, P25, DMR and IDEN
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New Jersey Transit

  • System awarded to Powertrunk in 2012
  • 65 sites at 800MHz
  • Over 4000 radios, 700 portables, 27 dispatch positions
  • System is used for voice, data and CAD controlled transit

dispatch.

  • Used for fixed route buses, Light Rail, Customer service,

Fleet Vehicles and Client bus companies.

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Green Bay Pilot System

  • System Installed early 2011
  • 3 sites used as a comparison between analog and TETRA
  • Performed a side by side comparison with analog LTR trunking
  • A way for Comprehensive Coverage Comparison
  • Tested for functionality, voice quality, and data capabilities
  • Results of comparison showed TETRA gave better voice

comprehension than Analog in the fringe areas.

  • Coverage was approximately the same based on the ability to

understand the voice message

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Green Bay Pilot System

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Green Bay Pilot System

Analog Blue 30W TETRA Green 10W

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Green Bay Pilot System

Automatic Drive Testing

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US Airports

  • LAX- Los Angeles International Airport
  • AIRINC (Rockwell Collins)/Powertrunk
  • Implemented mid 2014
  • JFK- John F Kennedy International Airport
  • Rockwell Collins/Powertrunk
  • Implemented in 2015
  • SFO-San Francisco International Airport
  • Rockwell Collins/Powertrunk
  • Implemented in 2016
  • EWR-Newark Liberty International Airport
  • Rockwell Collins/Powertrunk
  • Implemented in 2018
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Ontario Power Generation- OPG

  • Implemented in 2 of OPG’s Nuclear Plants in 2016
  • Darlington Nuclear Plant
  • 70 Miles East of Toronto on Lake Ontario
  • Pickering Nuclear Plant
  • 30 Miles East of Toronto on Lake Ontario
  • 2 Separate systems networked for communications
  • Provides communication within the plants
  • Provides seamless communications between the plants
  • Also consists of Rapid Deployment base stations
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Diverse Power

  • Started with RFP by Cobb EMC in the Spring of 2013 with 4

Counties included.

  • Expanded to 60% of the state by Diverse Power.
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Flint Hills Refinery

RFP presented in Feb. of 2016

  • System awarded to Powertrunk & Bay Electronics Feb. of 2017
  • 2 sites with 6 channels at the South site and 3 channels at the North

site.

  • All UHF Part 22 and Part 90 frequencies at the South Site.
  • Part 90 frequencies at the North Site
  • North site part 90 channels were Public Safety channels granted

via FCC waiver with the help of EWA and FHR attorney Liz Sachs.

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Flint Hills Refinery

  • Constructed a new building at the North Site
  • Constructed a new tower at the South Site
  • Both sites have battery back up and generators
  • 2 sites give full redundancy and more complete coverage
  • All systems are fully redundant, No single point of failure
  • 35 Control stations, 15 Mobile Radios, 200 Portable radios
  • Fiber Optic BDA system for in building coverage
  • 32 TETRA to Analog Gateways allow communication between

new and old systems.

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Flint Hills Refinery

Backhaul is all fiber optic

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Invista Chemical Plant

  • System awarded to Powertrunk/Bay Electronics in August

2018

  • 5 Base stations at the new tower location
  • 2 Stations at the old tower location
  • Redundant System Control Nodes
  • 24 control stations, 600 portables, 8 mobiles
  • System is used for voice, Text and GPS locations
  • System will be interconnected to their phone system. Allows

full duplex calls to portables and mobiles.

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Invista Chemical Plant

  • Used passive antenna system in 2 locations for in building

coverage.

  • System will be integrated with Cellular Push to Talk

application

  • System will be integrated with their existing and future SIP

base phone systems.

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Invista Chemical Plant

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Cooperative Energy Hattiesburg MS

  • Full RFP was available in April of 2018
  • 2 manufacturers of DMR systems and 2 other TETRA

Vendors were at the bidders meeting

  • System awarded to Powertrunk & Bay Electronics

November 2018

  • 58 Sites utilizing UHF frequencies
  • Fully redundant system controllers
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Cooperative Energy Hattiesburg MS

  • Digital VoIP recorder for internal phone system and TETRA

radio system. One source for all voice recordings.

  • Cellular to TETRA push to talk application
  • Will utilize Cooperatives existing IP network for backhaul of

TETRA network

  • 16 dispatch Consoles with redundant controllers
  • 400 Mobile radios, 250 portable radios, 35 Control Stations
  • Member Cooperatives will be joining in the future
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Cooperative Energy Hattiesburg MS

System will be using UHF spectrum In process right now at EWA for part 90 channels We are about 70% complete now with licensing of spectrum Approximately 75 channels needed to provide adequate capacity.

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Network Topology

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Cooperative Energy

General Radio System Coverage

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Conclusion

Motorola was able to keep TETRA out of North America until 2009 causing a significant delay in TETRA implementations. Since 2009 there has been a significant interest early on with system deployments accelerating throughout the following years.

  • The main reasons for the growth are:
  • A Public Safety grade system at an economical price
  • Better talkpath capacity (4:1)
  • Better feature sets
  • It is a true Open Standards System
  • Allowing for competitive solutions