EADS N.V. - Highlight Professional Mobile Radio PMR: @CORE – Control-station system for today and tomorrow

At ILA, EADS is presenting its voice integration platform @CORE in actual use – the next-generation control station based entirely on IP (Internet Protocol). At its stand at the fair, EADS will demonstrate a control-terminal workstation in which well-proven @CORE components are integrated with the latest developments – such as the @CORE server, which employs an emergency-services control computer from ISE. The @CORE server combines, among other components, a centralised TCP/IP-based interface to the emergency-services control system, a central interface for wireless applications (fire-alarm system, other alerts), central recording of all data generated by subsystems, and central storage of configurations.

Control stations must above all ensure systems integration and interoperability. @CORE is the ideal solution for integrating analogue and digital radio, wireless and wire-bound technologies. Mobile forces of different organizations can communicate with each other irrespective of their communications systems, or indirectly via the control-station technology. At the same time, @CORE also facilitates stepwise migration from analogue radio to digital TETRAPOL 2004.IP radio. By making it possible to transmit both voice and data over the same medium, @CORE provides the means of distributing and relocating control stations, and of locating dispatchers in the field.

Since the market introduction of @CORE, EADS has integrated this technology in some 15 control stations that are either in use already or under construction. In addition to their typical use in the control stations of safety and security agencies and organisations, @CORE components have also been used in specialised solutions. Examples include the feeder technology for analogue radio communications in the Rennsteig Tunnel, Germany’s longest, and ground-traffic monitoring at the
Zürich-Kloten Airport. The modular system configuration of @CORE is also used by partner companies in their control stations for public transit and in the TETRAPOL network for Switzerland’s safety and security services.

@CORE control-station technology is a part of the broad concept of Homeland Security, the banner theme of EADS at ILA. Information exchange between safety/security control stations and the control stations of safety-critical facilities and infrastructures – such as airports, public transit, industrial and utilities companies – is a basic requirement for a network of internal and external safety and security systems to ensure homeland security.