Presentation Special and Professional Mobile Radio in France - High User Benefits. By Vincent Delpont 27. November 2013 PMR-Expo Cologne.

1. Special and Professional Mobile Radio
in France
High User Benefits
Vincent Delpont, Quality Manager,
e*Message W.I.S. France
PMR Expo Köln 2013
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2. Customers value PMR
Reliability, security
Fast alerting (technology dependent: good with paging, poor with
Tetra)
Not dependant on public networks
Easy to use
Adaptated to hard environnement
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3. PMR suffers however from limitations
Limited coverage
Shared frequencies
On site management
Some technologies are not adapted to fast and reliable alerting
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4. Mobile operated network, pros and cons
Large coverage
Dedicated frequencies
But sensible to public traffic
Not adapted to emergency situations
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5. Evolution of PMR: the e*Message experience
e*Message operates a nP2M networks sharing the benefits of PMR
and an operated network:
Reliability, security
Not dependant on Mobile or fixed public networks
Fast alerting
Easy to use
Dedicated frequencies
Nationwide coverage
Core network redundancy
Big customer base
Professional management
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6. e*Message, nP2M provider
nP2M is narrowband Point to
Multipoint, a service suite which
includes for instance the basic
“paging” application
As part of nP2M, a number of
services are defined
General Citizens Information
(e.g. Weather Alert)
Control and Reduce Energy
Consumption
Social Alarm (Households,
Education, Industry)
First-Responder Alerting
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Place of nP2M in ETSI Emergency Telecoms
CtoA
From Citzens to
Authorities: mostly not
realized by nP2M
Communication
in Critical and
Crisis Situation
CtoC
AtoA
Between Authorities:
Alarming of millions of
first responders
From Citzens to Citizens:
(partially) Paging
AtoC
From Authorities to Citizens: Weather and
other Alerts

7. nP2M implementation: sirens alerting example
An e*Message receiver is embedded in a siren control command box
Depending on the customer requirements, a single siren or a group of sirens can be powered
on through e*Message network
Simultaneous powering on of several sirens and immediate alerting of the population
Alert message
Transmission of
the command
Signal
sequencing
Signal
broadcasting
Power supply
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8. Evolution of the needs, new services from
e*Message
Customers requests:
how to benefit from PMR pros without its cons?
Is it possible to benefit from a global solution for alerting,
embedding all the telecommunications media?
What about a SAAS solution?
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9. Answer from e*Message: Isys solution
All the benefits of e*Message specific position:
nP2M
reliable, fast, secured as PMR
Dedicated frequencies, nationwide coverage as operator
With new and unique services:
All in one solution for alerting
Easy to implement into an existing structure
Fully adaptable to customers requests
Reliable: e*Message network with its redundancy
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10. ISYS : an Alert management solution
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11. Feedback about Isys
ISYS Customers :
Are working on risky industrial activities (Nuclear, chemical etc)
Big customers made strategic decisions to use Isys
Need
Extended paging coverage (at least regional )
High availability
Multi telecom media (Pager, SMS, PSTN…)
Redundant solution
Preference
SaaS to internal hosted solution (24/24 support )
Cost efficient solution (resources shared)
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12. Thank you for your attention
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13. References
nP2M
SRdoc for nP2M
SRdoc: System Reference Document.
Approved by ETSI WG ERM 8th of March 2013.Sophia Antipolis,
Southern France.
Discussed in CEPT 77th WG FM meeting. Starting 22nd of May 2013.
Amsterdam, NL: A new WGFM correspondence group CG on
narrowband point-to-multipoint (N2MP) under the chairmanship of
Sergey Pastukh was agreed to be installed.
Isys: http://www.isys-alerte.fr/
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