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Highly Mobile Tactical Communications (HMTC) & Iridium Tactical Communications Overlay (ITCO)
Advatech Pacific's Universal Gateway to Telecommunications Equipment (uGATE) Provides Communications Interoperability to first Responders
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In the event of a natural or man-made civil disaster, many organizations are called to the area to assist the citizens, help restore order, and rebuild as necessary. These “first-responders” include the National Guard, various police and public safety organizations, federal and state agencies, as well as humanitarian organizations. Each organization has its own means of communications, and there are many excellent high quality, reliable radios available to the first-responders. The Military and National Guard have their SINCGARS, and Personal Role Radios. Police and public safety organizations often work with hand-held walkie-talkies, and others use cell phones, internet and the local telephone system if the infrastructure survives the disaster.
What their various communications systems, especially the two-way radios, can’t do, is communicate with each other.
This lack of communications interoperability creates huge command and control as well as operational difficulties for the relief organizations and first responders. The most publicly visible example of this situation is the recent efforts during Hurricane Katrina in 2005, which was well covered in the news media to the embarrassment of the hard-working agencies trying to manage the relief efforts. Providing the means for these various communications systems to interoperate would significantly improve the control and integration of the overall relief operations as well as the personal safety of the first-responders.
Working for years with the Office of Naval Research, Advatech Pacific, Inc. has developed a
universal gateway that provides the necessary link that enables all these communications
means to interact with one another in a compact, low-cost package. Developed as the Highly
Mobile Tactical Communications (HMTC) system for the military, the gateway is a solution
to the intercommunication needs of civil disaster relief organizations. Through this gateway,
the National Guard can communicate with the police and public safety agencies, the state and
federal agencies can efficiently send directions and instructions to all supporting elements and
receive timely reports at the command centers from the “troops on the ground,” regardless of
where they are located in the nation or the world. The unique products that provide the
gateway are collectively called the Universal Gateway to Telecommunications Equipment, or
uGATE.
Operations Concept: The uGATE equipment handles the interoperability issues between radio systems through the connection of a radio from each net. When the internal “switchboard” detects incoming voice signals from one of the connected radios, it transmits (broadcasts) that signal to all other connected radios. These uGATEs do not require line of sight among each other since they each have an L-band connection to the Iridium Constellation of satellites, permitting world-wide interconnectivity from and among disaster sites to command centers located anywhere in the country or the globe.
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