Safer Towns Tonbridge: A Case Study
The Challenge
The radios are linked through a repeater situated in the town, but the range of this equipment does not extend to the more rural towns within the Tonbridge & Malling Borough Council area.
How could the Partnership bring shops and businesses in these areas into the family to improve the communications regarding local crime and safety planning?
The Solution
In this instance to provide coverage across the whole area would require significant investment in both hardware and software, linking up multiple repeaters to a network. The Push-To-Talk over Cellular (PoC) systems now available do not rely on traditional radio signals, but instead use the national cellular network or local broadband services.
These could communicate to the existing radio network through a PoC to DMR Gateway.
After carefully reviewing and trialling the equipment available, Smye-Rumsby selected the ENTEL DN495 PoC Handsets, and the ENTEL E- PoC GW485 UHF Gateway.
Once the decision was made to go ahead the handsets were prepared and the Gateway installed next to the repeater in Tonbridge.
The Future
The team were able to communicate with the traditional radios across the Tonbridge and Malling area, and each other from even outside the Council area.
As a result, the Safer Towns Tonbridge Partnership have enrolled new rural members to the scheme and expanded their communications system without the need for a large capital investment.
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