MOTOTRBO
Systems
Up to
1
Up to
200 per site*
This city hotel must offer excellent customer service if it is to succeed. Guests need to feel safe, secure and well cared-for. The hotel has installed a MOTOTRBO repeater on the premises, giving excellent coverage all the way from the basement to the penthouse suite. Now, with their Work Order Ticket Management system and MOTOTRBO SL 4000 and SL 4000e radios, the staff have the tools they need to deliver a top-class guest experience. A repeater brings many benefits to your workplace communications. With high transmitter power and a sensitive receiver, your coverage area is significantly boosted. The digital error correction capability within the unit also improves voice quality. And with the MOTOTRBO repeater IP interface, you can more efficiently implement operations-critical applications such as Work Order Ticketing, GPS Dispatch Consoles and Telephone Interconnect. MOTOTRBO repeaters use both TDMA timeslots of a DMR standard radio channel. Depending on user activity, this can support up to 200 radio users.
Up to
up to 15
Up to
200 per site*
The IP Site Connect digital solution uses the Internet to extend the coverage of your MOTOTRBO communication system no matter where you’re located. You can communicate easily among geographically dispersed locations across the city, state or country.
You can create wide area coverage and automatically roam from one coverage area to another with no manual intervention. Or you can enhance coverage at a single site like a high-rise building that contains physical barriers. IP Site Connect enables you to extend the voice and data communication capability of your workforce beyond the levels two-way radio has achieved before. This means dramatically improved customer service and increased productivity.
Up to
SINGLE SITE
Up to
1600 per site*
This hospital is like a small city, with many buildings, hundred of rooms and extensive maintenance areas. To keep everyone connected, they have installed a MOTOTRBO Capacity Plus system. Its innovative Dynamic Trunking makes the best use of the available radio channels. It’s a costeffective way to provide capacity for a single campus site. And if the planned merger with a neighboring healthcare facility goes ahead, they can simply link the two Capacity Plus sites over IP. Even as your organization grows larger, you need to ensure that you stay efficient. Capacity Plus Single Site and Capacity Plus Multi-Site (formerly known as Linked Capacity Plus) utilize Motorola innovation to pool radio resources and allocate them efficiently.
Up to
up to 250
Up to
3000 per site*
This transportation and logistics company has a large fleet of trucks and delivery vehicles criss-crossing the city. They need to have centralized control of their workforce, so they've deployed a MOTOTRBO Capacity Max system with a GPS dispatch console. Now they can see exactly where every vehicle is, and optimize their operations using sophisticated fleet management applications. And if any radio needs updating or reconfiguring, the dispatcher can do that remotely from his desktop, with no need to return a vehicle to base. Capacity Max is MOTOTRBO's next-generation trunking solution. Built on the DMR Tier III Mode of Operation, it delivers smooth scalability, low cost of ownership and reliable operation. Capitalizing on years of experience and customer feedback, the solution is designed for the real world, with valuable features and functionality to enhance operation.
Up to
UP TO 250
Up to
3000 per site*
This service provider owns and operates a MOTOTRBO system, offering monthly service plans for organizations in the coverage area. It has been very successful, and the system has now expanded to over 200 sites, covering almost the entire state. Customers such as event managers appreciate the flexibility of short-term radio contracts; others such as logistics companies love the vast coverage area. But it's all brought together with the exceptional coverage and capacity of MOTOTRBO Connect Plus. Connect Plus is the original MOTOTRBO trunking solution. In its latest evolution, it has stretched to cover an exceptional 250 sites, providing capacity and coverage to enormous, multi-national organizations.
*maximum capacity based on standard call model
About standard
Digital Mobile Radio (DMR) is an open digital mobile radio standard for Professional Mobile Radio (PMR) that was developed by the European Telecommunications Standards Institute (ETSI).
Today, both regulatory bodies and the needs of users are encouraging the move toward digital mobile radio technology to improve spectral efficiency and take advantage of advanced voice and data functionality. The professional market, the largest group of two-way radio users, is now deciding which digital technology will best meet their needs, now and in the future. TDMA two-slot digital mobile radio, the standards-based solution created for these users, offers the best option. The Digital Mobile Radio (DMR) standard on which it is based was designed to deliver a cost-effective, highly functional communication system for professional mobile radio users, as well as the smoothest path toward future interoperability and multi-vendor flexibility.
Wordwide digital two-way radio markets can be roughly divided into three categories
DEFINING THE PROFESSIONAL MARKET
Users of two-way radio communication fall roughly into three groups, each with their own needs and expectations. At one end of the continuum are organizations that simply need fast, convenient, low-cost communication over a limited range. For these businesses, basic low-power radios meet their needs quite adequately.
At the opposite end are those organizations with mission- critical communication needs, such as police and fire departments, public transport and emergency services.
The nature of their work demands the top-level reliability, security and wide geographic range that come only with high functionality, often in customized radio networks. Such systems can be costly, but are an essential component offulfilling the organization’s mission.
Between these two lies the largest group, the professional mobile radio market. These organizations need tocommunicate with and provide information to a workforcethat is mobile, moving about a geographic area to accomplish their jobs. They work in a variety of industries, including transportation, construction, manufacturing, energy and utilities. Some communicate across a single campus — at an institution of learning, a building site or a resort. Others, such as local governments or public safety organizations, need to communicate across multiple sites in a wider region.
For all of them, though, superior communications quality, reliability, functionality, and mobility are business-critical. Professional mobile radio users need clear, unbroken, reliable communications because for them, communication problems create business problems — reduced productivity, wasted time and wasted money. When they can’t reach their workers, essential services are interrupted. Customers needs go unmet. Business is lost.
PROFESSIONAL USERS, PROFESSIONAL NEEDS
- Clear, reliable communication across the service area — when reliability across a wide area is important, unlicensed on-site two-way radios are usually rejected because of their susceptibility to interference andcongestion. In addition, their limited range does not meetthe needs of many professional market users. Even licensed analog two-way radios, in today’s crowded spectrum, can suffer interference and voice quality degradation at the edge of coverage. Analog solutions also are limited in capacityand expandability as a result of spectral crowding.
- Cost-effective, customized communications — while unlicensed two-way radios are cost-effective, their basic feature set cannot offer customization to the specific needs of the organization. Radios designed to high-functionality standards aimed at mission critical needs, such as P25 in the U.S. or Terrestrial Trunked Radio (TETRA) in Europe, can be customized, but may not be cost-justifiable for a professional business organization. A public infrastructure solution such as Push-to-Talk over Cellular, with its recurring service usage fees and potentially higher total cost of ownership, can also fall short of meeting cost goals for the professional market.
- Integrated data communications — to easily send and receive images and information, or quickly locate vehicles and personnel in the field – such abilities have become an expectation, rather than a luxury, for today’s mobile worker. Licensed analog two-way radios lack these integrated data applications. Digital technologies are needed to support these requirements.These needs, then, create today’s search for a comprehensive, cost-effective and future-ready radio solution for the mobile professional.
DELIVERING PERFORMANCE AND PRODUCTIVITY
With the emergence of digital two-way radio technologies professional organizations are being offered an increasing variety of systems, both proprietary and standards-based, that can better align with their business goals. Digital technology achieves new levels of performance and productivity, with a richer feature set to meet the needs of the professional user.Digital mobile radio also delivers cost-effectiveness and greater spectrum efficiency, by using less of the available spectrum capacity per call. That provides higher overall capacity with clearer voice services throughout a geographic range. At the same time, digital protocols enable access to integrated data to improve organizational responsiveness and productivity.
Depending on the technologies used, digital systems can be designed to:
- Make more efficient use of available, licensed RF spectrum
- Combine voice and data access in the same device, delivering more information while empowering field workers with systems that are more portable, flexible, and much easier to use than two different and incompatible systems
- Enable integration and interoperability with back-end data systems and external systems
- Combine analog and digital voice in the same device, easing the migration to digital while preserving investments in analog technology
- Provide strong, practical, easy-to-use privacy solutions without the significant loss in voice quality that analog scrambling can cause
- Enable flexible and reliable call control and signaling capabilities
- Provide increased capacity without additional base stations
- Flexibly adapt to changing business needs and new applications through a modular architecture
Digital voice retains better quality than analog as signal strength decreases.
THE DMR STANDARD
European Telecommunications Standards Institute (ETSI)digital two-way radio standards address the needs of each market segment. For the professional mobile radio user, the relevant standard is DMR Tier 2/3.
To meet the challenges of large scale migration of professional users to digital radio, the globally recognized European Telecommunications Standards Institute (ETSI) has developed a new digital standard called DMR (Digital Mobile Radio).DMR includes standards for all of the broad range of business radio use, but for the conventional radio professional market, the relevant standard is defined in DMR Tier 2.
In developing the DMR Tier 2 standard, ETSI considered a number of alternative technologies. Knowing the needs of the professional/business-critical user, they sought a technology that promised the high reliability, improved range, higher data rates, more efficient use of spectrum, and improved batterylife these users demand.
Because the organizations that would use the new standards- based technology work in industries with a broad range of communication demands, ETSI sought a technology path that could support a similarly rich set of features, including fast call set-up, calls to groups and individuals, short data and packet data calls. Their choice would need to support individual
calls, group calls, broadcast calls and, of course, a direct communication mode among the mobiles. Other important functions such as emergency calls, priority calls, full duplex communications, short data messages and IP packet data transmissions would also be supported in DMR.
Perhaps most important to professional users, ETSI recognized the significant investment many organizations already have
in analog radio systems. The DMR Tier 2 standard wasspecifically designed to ease their migration from analog to digital. The standard fits in existing bands and imposes no fundamental changes in architecture. Instead, it focuses on changing the over-the-air protocol to facilitate the use of applications that are beyond the capability of analog systems.
The protocol ETSI chose is two-slot TDMA.
CONCLUSION
As they prepare to migrate to the greater efficiencies and capabilities of digital mobile radio, professional users need to make a careful choice. Motorola’s MOTOTRBO makes the choice easier by adhering to globally recognized standards.A standards-based solution assures a smooth, well defined migration path, as well as the interoperability and compatibility of multi-vendor equipment that provide for fair market, competitive alternatives.
Benefits
Expanded digital voice, data, and control capabilities delivered over a given slice of RF spectrum.
TDMA digital two-way radio increases capacity and flexibility to support more users in more ways.
Increased capacity with lower licensing and equipment costs.
TDMA technology enables two virtual channels within a single 12.5 kHz licensed repeater channel. This provides twice the calling capacity for the price of one license. And because there’s only one “real” channel, a second call doesn’t require a second repeater.
Clearer voice communications over a greater range.
When signal strength drops off with distance, digital error-correction technology can accurately deliver both voice and data content with virtually no loss over a given coverage area. Audio quality is more consistent across a given coverage area.
Improved battery life.
In a two slot system, each individual radio only uses half the battery power of an analog radio transmitting at the same wattage. Since transmitting is the most energy-intensive operation, digital TDMA two-way radios can enable operation up to 40 percent longer than typical analog radios.
Enhanced functionality.
In MOTOTRBO’s two-slot TDMA system, each slot delivers an independentvirtual channel at the repeater that can be used for voice calls, data communications, or a combination of the two. MOTOTRBO provides improved background noise suppression, built-in privacy, and optimized workgroup communication with one-to-one, one- to-many and one-to-all calling models and signaling features such as push-to-talk ID, emergency, remote monitor, and radio check.
Easy migration.
MOTOTRBO’s ability to operate in both analog and digital modes enables a smooth, planned migration at a user’s own pace.
Advanced applications
With built-in GPS, MOTOTRBO provides the ability to track people and assets, such as vehicles. MOTOTRBO also offers text messaging capability, enabling messaging between radios and dispatch systems, radios and email addressabledevices and to remote PC clients attached to radios.
Configuration
DMR TIER I
DMR Tier I products are for licence-free use in the European 446 MHz band. In the US, the 446 MHz range is primary US Government with the amateur radio service a heavy secondary user. Some DMR radios that make it across the ocean have caused interference issues with licensed amateur operations. Tier 1 equipment is FDMA.
This part of the standard provides for consumer applications and low-power commercial applications, using a maximum of 0.5 watt RF power.
DMR TIER II
DMR Tier II covers hand portables, mobiles and base stations operating in the VHF and UHF allocations for PMR.
The ETSI DMR Tier-2 standard is targeted to those users who need spectral efficiency, advanced voice features and integrated IP data services in licensed bands for high-power communications. ETSI DMR Tier-2 calls for two slot TDMA in 12.5 kHz channels.
DMR TIER III
DMR Tier III covers trunking operation in frequency bands 66-960MHz. The Tier III standard specifies two-slot TDMA in 12.5kHz channels. Tier III supports voice and short messaging handling similar to MPT-1327 with built-in 128 character status messaging and short messaging with up to 288 bits of data in a variety of formats. It also supports packet data service in a variety of formats, including support for IPv4 and IPv6.