Ashwin Dinkar is a qualified senior bid engineer at Simoco Australasia. Having worked in the radio communication industry for over 5 years, Ashwin has driven development of systems engineering, pre-sales, network management and third-party integration components of the RF industry both within and outside Simoco. Based in Melbourne, Ashwin influences pre-sales efforts by evaluating Simoco's customer requirements and delivering customised solutions in public safety, transport and utilities sectors around the world.

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Presentation Title: M2M & IP revolution in radio
Speaker: Ashwin Dinkar
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2. Today: M2M = Man to Man
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3. Presentation Title (the long version)
“M2M communications and the IP revolution in
radio. A marriage made in the cloud with
down-to-earth benefits.”
1. M2M communications
2. IP in radio
3. The “IP cloud”
4. Benefits

4. • Data reporting
– Exceptions
– Status
– Measurements
• Control
M2M communications

5. • Reduce site visits
• Proactive & efficient maintenance
• Regulation
• Green technology
• Service levels
M2M drivers

6. Mobile Radio Networks
• Network Requirements;
– Coverage (100% of operational requirement)
– Reliability
– Resilience
– Security
– Predictable cost of ownership
– Voice communications
– Data communications

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PMR
IP in Radio

8. • The PMR community was
scared to use IP
– It’s the internet
– It’s not safe
– It’s not reliable
– Hackers/Virus Attacks
What did we find back then?
Despite the internet, IP backbones
weren’t commonplace in PMR
4 wire leased lines
Microwave
Backbones as legacy as radio systems

9. What did we find back then?
But
Backbone technologies were going IP
Organisations wanted to converge backbones
. it was changing. .

10. It wasn’t about the internet
• Away from the backbone, IP
allowed us to;
– Connect PMR equipment
together (nothing new!)
– Create a distributed/resilient
architecture
– Use standard
protocols/applications e.g.
TCP/FTP

11. Larger networks
Significant cost
reductions for fully
resilient systems
Enhanced remote
support capabilities
(1st, 2nd, 3rd line)
A shared backbone for
PMR & other systems
• Can we connect sites
with cheap ADSL?
• Can we use public
MPLS services?
• Suddenly, it’s okay to
be on the internet!!

12. Inside the cloud
• Do you need to know what’s in the cloud?
• You need to be aware of the system backbone
requirements
– Bandwidth
– Unicast/multicast
– Latency/Jitter
• Simoco has been deploying PMR over IP for 8
years
• DMR is fully built on IP principles

13. M2M & Cellular
• Cellular is dominant in the M2M space,
obviously…
– publically available in 90% of the world
– 20+ billion texts sent every day
– 3G = 200+kbps
– 4G = 10’s mbps
So what are the benefits of M2M over radio?

14. Benefits of M2M over Radio
• Coverage

15. Benefits of M2M over Radio
• Reliability
• Resilience
• Security (Private Mobile Radio)
• Predictable cost of ownership
• Voice communications
• Data communications
– Status, short data, packet data
Fallback
Power backup
Generators
Batteries
Network design

16. Data Considerations
• Data rate
• Data capacity
• Data frequency
• Acknowledgements – where?
• Voice/data contention
• Latency

17. M2M over Radio & IP

18. Mixed Solutions

19. Summary
• M2M is huge and growing (2.1bn devices by 2021)
• Analyze the data requirement & choose the
most suited solution(s)
• Coverage & capability
– Sweat the asset
– Advantages of PMR for data
• Open Standards

20. The Future:
M2M = Machine to Machine
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21. Questions
Thank you
Ashwin Dinkar
www.simocogroup.com
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