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Mobile Communications for Public Safety - Technology Penetration and Roadmapping
Frost & Sullivan, June 2011, Pages: 66
This Frost & Sullivan research service titled Mobile Communications for Public Safety--Technology Penetration and Roadmapping provides an in-depth analysis of the key business accelerators and challenges in the public safety communications domain. The study also examines the existing technologies and the penetration potential of these technologies in the future.
Market Overview
Escalating Number of Threats Amplifies Need for Reliable Mobile Communications for Public Safety
Against the backdrop of increasing terrorist attacks and natural disasters, governments and federal authorities across the world have stepped up strategies to enhance the quality of emergency services. The pressing need for securing communications for mission-critical applications has given rise to breakthrough innovations, especially in fields such as network traffic management, capacity allocation, and resource-intensive information exchange. These initiatives strive to unify the functionality of independent emergency service agencies by establishing a strong interoperable public safety communication platform. “Fast, efficient, and effective response to public safety threats requires superior coordination between law enforcers, emergency medical units, and fire squads, among others,” notes the analyst of this research service. “In order to coordinate the activities of the aforementioned teams, reliable mobile communication is an absolute necessity.” As governments worldwide are committed to providing public safety, mobile communications will be successful in this segment as long as avid government and federal body support exists. Industry participants across multiple domains, such as wireless broadband, defense communication, and so on are finding it beneficial to invest in this segment due to governmental backing.
The commercial communications segment is witnessing fast-paced progress, with the introduction of wireless broadband networks. IP-based interoperable, multimedia communications are entering the public safety arena in a big way. This is expected to drive technology innovations, provide improved performance, and enhance interoperability without having to invest in new infrastructure.
Interoperability and Bandwidth Insufficiency Prove to be Growth Bottlenecks for the Market
Although the market prospects look upbeat, there are some impediments stalling market progression. Insufficiency of bandwidth is widely acknowledged to be a persistent challenge in almost all aspects of communications and indeed, in public safety communications, where several multimedia applications require significant amounts of channel capacity. New bandwidth hungry applications are continuously being introduced for public safety operations, which inevitably would call for still higher bandwidths in the near future. Another aspect posing a major challenge is interoperability. In the current scenario, it becomes essential for developers to enhance capabilities by embedding multi-agency interoperability in radios. Interoperability problems are most intense during coalition operations when multiple public safety agencies are unable to share critical intelligence and real-time situational awareness with each other.
Many governments have eased their regulatory environments by lowering the barriers to entry for foreign companies and releasing dedicated spectrum for public safety. Industry majors and smaller companies have come together and formed associations/groups to develop and promote a particular public safety communication standard. These associations have also undertaken incremental R&D efforts to improve their technologies in sync with market demands. “The key demands from the end users include flexibility, coverage, on-demand service, interoperability, availability, and performance of the public safety communication systems,” says the analyst. “The emerging opportunity segments in the public safety communications domain include TETRA enhanced data service (TEDS), Phase-III of P25 standard, long term evolution (LTE), worldwide interoperability for microwave access (WiMAX), software defined radio (SDR), and cognitive radio (CR).”
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