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Expert Discussion Workshop
November 10th 2005
Location: City of Helsinki Rescue Department
Minutes of the Workshop
12.00 Start
Introduction of participants (All)
Participating in the workshop were:
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Delia Berrouard, TKK
Adrian Boukalov, TKK
Konstantinos Koufos, TKK
Pekka Parviainen, TKK
Timo Vetri, TKK
Jaakko Saijonmaa, EADS SN Finland
Heikki Salovuori, EADS SN Finland
Ilpo Paltemaa, EADS SN Finland
9. Anssi Kuusela, City of Helsinki Rescue Department
10. Olli Peltonen, Finnish Naval Military
11. Matti Sivula, Poliisiosasto / Police of Helsinki
12. Maaret Castren, Helsingin ja Uudenmaan sairaanhoitopiiri (HUS)
13. Jukka-Pekka Kaasinen, Finnish Red Cross
14. Riitta Bäckman, Finnish Red Cross
15. Lyly Peteveikko, Suomen Erillisverkot Oy
Apologies from:
16. Tero Pesonen, EADS SN Finland
Brief introduction of the DeHiGate (www.celtic-dehigate.org) and WIDENS
(www.widens.org) projects. (Delia Berrouard, HUT)
Delia Berrouard from HUT presented the two projects in general.
- DeHiGate – Deployable High Capacity Gateway for Emergency
Services:
The project will develop a deployable high bandwidth gateway for emergency
services accompanied with applications:
- The gateway will extend high capacity data communication through the use
of existing radio technology.
- The deployable gateway will be used in addition to the low bandwidth voice
and data systems already deployed by the emergency services.
The foundation for the project is interaction with user communities, so the
functional requirement for the overall architecture and for the gateway itself is
based on their needs.
The usability of the concept will be demonstrated with trials aimed at the user
community.
The project will utilize and interact with other existing European projects within
the emergency services, in particular the Widens and the Oasis project.
Several of the project partners participate in one or more of these, and the will
extend the knowledgebase from these project. In addition, public available
demonstrators from the Widens projects will be extended in the planned
demonstrations.
- WIDENS - Wireless Deployable Network System
Project Objectives:
• Propose a system for an easily deployable IP wireless ad hoc network in the
absence of infrastructure
• Design a scalable, reconfigurable, reliable and secure system introducing
ad-hoc adaptations and reusing current WLAN standards
• Demonstrate enhanced services of audio/video real time communication and
data exchange and replication
• Disseminate to MESA (Mobility for Emergency and Safety Applications)
transatlantic initiative between TIA and ETSI
• Experiment with Real Time PC based platform
The project is organized in two major phases: the system studies and
architecture specifications will take place in early 2004. The prototype will be
validated with data replication and video surveillance in late 2005.
Target Demonstrations of WIDENS will be held in Sophia Antipolis, France,
26th Jan'06.
Presentation on new technologies (Konstantinos Koufos, HUT)
Konstantinos Koufos from HUT gave a brief presentation about the new and
upcoming technologies in public safety.
The following technologies were presented:
- Ad Hoc
o Fast deployable network
 Can be set up in few seconds
o No need for infrastructure
- Broad Band
o Ability to send live-video
o Ability to send high resolution pictures
- Mobile Communication Command Center
o Already in use in Finland
Ad Hoc networks were discussed in brief. Ad Hoc has a lot of possibilities, but
there are also some problems:
- Ad Hoc has a limited working range
o Can be partly solved using multi-hopping
o If the “chain” of multi-hopping gets broken it stops messages
- Getting electricity for Ad Hoc systems can be a problem, for example
hurricane Katrina caused damage to electricity distribution systems, thus
making telecommunication hard.
EADS SN Finland thoughts on reference scenario (EADS SN Finland)
EADS manufactures Tetra Network and Tetra terminals.
The data transfer rate of Tetra is few kilobytes per second. Tetra High Speed
Data, which is under development, would allow data transfers up to 100 kilobytes
per second.
GSM and GPRS are now used to transfer data in public safety operations, but in
big disasters they get seized up.
EADS was questioning, if there is real need for fast data transfers? There has
been a big hype about fast data transfer in public safety, but it seems that users
don’t have real use for it. What is the user view?
Possible uses for fast data transfer:
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Remote surveillance of smoke divers’ vital functions
Remote surveillance of patrolling police officers’ vital functions
Online traffic and weather info to fire engines, police, etc.
On-line geographic images for field units
Access to relevant up-to-date information
Ambulance services
Air to ground video
EADS was also asking, if there is actual demand for expensive new devices? Are
users willing to pay? Integrated devices may be 10 times more expensive than
separate devices.
Demands of different organizations for new technologies:
(For small- and large-scale emergency scenarios)
City of Helsinki Rescue Department (Anssi Kuusela):
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Main cities and special places (Sköldvik, Nuclear power plants, etc.) would
be good to be covered by broadband/wideband.
IR camera works well in smoke
In large cases smoke divers are followed by many command level
persons (so multicast is needed, not only p2p)
Tetra speech not always good enough for smoke divers
From March 06 ambulances will have data connection to hospital
In some cases communications must be encrypted and kept out of public,
for example emergencies in presidential palace and military compounds.
Finn rescue force needs mobile infra
Monitoring of smoke divers vital functions automatically, using data, is a
good idea.
Connect the mobile command center to the fixed IT servers anywhere in
the area of operation: Need a broadband (2Mbit/s) connection from field.
Data transfer is a problem:
o Expensive in civil networks
o VIRVE doesn’t transfer data
o WLAN works only in fire stations.
Preparation for large scale accidents: All networks get congested, even
VIRVE. How to have reserve capacity available. Typical large
catastrophe/accidents in Finland would not normally destroy the basic
infra.
Finnish Navy (Olli Peltonen)
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Finnish Defense forces are getting a bigger role in normal public safety
work.
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Military (tactical) systems in crisis management heavy and clumsy: TETRA
is a good replacement.
In big operations a command and control center must be set up and from
there multiple connections to gain full picture of the situation.
Radio range is the key: establishing and guarding/patrolling of BS-sites is
expensive
Usually there is no commercial infra in crisis areas
All communications must be encrypted.
Cameraphone adds value - to check the identities of persons easily
Defense forces needs for data transmission are:
o Pictures
o Documents
o Live-camera
Police of Helsinki (Matti Sivula)
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Voice is the most important communication method.
o Reliable basic voice and SDS in all situations
Mail with xMB attachment files
Multicast video would be nice, if the cost of it would be minimal.
Sivula would like to have good screen in TETRA phone for maps and
showing own and other units and officers location in every handheld. =>
AVL (Automatic vehicle location)
Tetra phones are really old fashioned:
o Small display
o Only few features
In future police would like to have a “communication box” which includes
WLAN, Tetra, etc.
Information multicast in real time (technically: quite frequently) from every
device to every device.
Multicast of camera phone pictures to every related unit (pre-defined
targets for automatic sending especially in case of emergency)
Real time AVL of every police officer available to all field units. AVL view in
each police car, not only in command center.
All services to be in one integrated terminal, also multiband.
Economical building of coverage and capacity (for above services)
Camera in TETRA handset
Video??
Perhaps real time surveillance camera pictures could be useful in field
Broadband access to databases in some cases.
Finnish Red Cross (Jukka-Pekka Kaasinen)
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The voluntary Red Cross workers use the equipment only at the time of
duty. The equipment should be easy enough to use, as are not in everyday
use.
o Red Cross uses Tetra too
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Red Cross would also need the up-to-date maps, which police and fire
departments are using.
o RC has maps, but would need more up-to-date
Red Cross needs deployable networks, especially when operating abroad.
o For abroad missions encryption is not allowed.
Red Cross was asking that the public safety officials would purchase more
equipment, that RC could loan at the time of an emergency
RC has only limited resources, so they have to think a lot about which type
of data to send.
RC doesn’t use preloaded data/information
o Could be good to have information by data transfers during an
emergency -> Need Broad Band
 Layouts of buildings
 3D-models
 A connection to a data base with lot of different kinds of data
Finnish Red Cross has no need to take pictures
o All data has to be handed away to officials after the emergency.
In an emergency communication go:
o From public safety official to RC volunteer-leader
o From RC-volunteer leader to all the different volunteers
 Usually not every volunteer has a Tetra handset
 Causes problems sometimes
Suomen Erillisverkot Oy (Peteveikko Lyly)
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Up to date maps available (pre-loaded maps are old, not up to date). This
is not a problem in Helsingin Pelastuslaitos, which gets up to date maps
from Kiinteistövirasto.
Deployable BB data, BB connections.
There was not a very clear drive for broadband currently. Overall, more as to
improve the current services, like AVL and have mobile control center
connected to fixed. Deployable networks needed to replace/restore existing
VOICE service, being out of use (power failure etc). Minimize nr of deployable
sites. No clear indicated need for AD-HOC.
EADS was asking if there is need for wide-band coverage for all of Finland?
Answers:
- Would be great, but not essential.
- It would be good, if Helsinki and other big cities would be covered.
Finnish Defense Forces are researching possibilities for better co-operation
with other public safety officials. ( Olli Peltonen is the project officer).
There is some demand for putting GPS in Tetra handset.
On large-scale scenarios there was an idea:
- It should be researched how the communications worked in “Katarina”.
 Infra totally destroyed
 Debloyable KOTS? Network
 Check www-pages
 Re-establishing IP-Network
Thank you all for participating!