Increasing Efficiency and Staff Safety in Utility Sector

Phil WoodleyHead of TETRA productsSepura

No stranger to radio…Offshore wind farms are billion plus dollar assets

• Radio for operations & monitoring passing traffic to enable intervention

• Radar for non-related/uncooperative targets

The customer

• Specialist supplier of Marine Intelligence Systems

• Work with some of the largest off shore energy suppliers

• Resilient mission critical comms are an absolute requirement

• Worker safety is top priority

• Needed demonstrable safety enhancements

The what’s

• What were the problems the customer was trying to solve?

• What would be the challenges?

• What were the absolutes?

• What were we not seeing?

• What was the outcome?

Generic photo of wind farm — Photo: SteKlueBe

The problems

• Rough environment– Seawater– Wind and waves– Freezing to hot– Ships – Platforms

• Safety is critical– Communications solution

is critical for safety

Photo: Department of Energy, US, Dennis Schroeder

TETRA network and radios

• Wind farm off-shore is out of any commercial network coverage– Must have own resilient network and site

coverage outdoors and indoors– Safety off-shore is absolutely critical for

operations

• TETRA is the premier radio technology for private safety and mission critical networks– Amazing audio quality in wind or noise or rain– Data and apps capability enhances operations– Widely deployed in utility sector around the

world– Safety features such as man down alerts

Operational temperature STP/SC Series

ETSI conformance tested temperature-20°C to +60°C

Operational temperature (Sepura tests) -30°C to +65°C

Customer environment used*-40°C to +65°C

Cold Scenarios Hot Scenarios Norwegian Public Safety Dubai PoliceSwedish Public Safety Saudi Public SafetyCanadian Mining Australian Mining

* Anecdotal from customer

Salt water environment

• Salt water is extremely harsh environment for electronics (radios)• Need high environmental (IP) protection for most demanding

situations and places

• TETRA radios can fulfill these needs and beyond– Salt water proof connectors, rain, shower, submersible, rugged, ...

Salt Protection:

▪ Salt fog

▪ MIL-STD-810

▪ Duration 24hr salt

▪ Salt water – submersion

▪ Rated at 1m for 30mins

▪ FFPT Salt water – 96hrs standing on end

▪ Connector Protector

Voice and Apps for operations

• Complete TETRA communications solution for utility sector

• Provide both voice and data communications– Comprehensive solution for every situation

• Why applications?– Improve worker safety– Higher efficiency...

The what’s

• What were the problems the customer was trying to solve?

• What were the challenges?

• What were the absolutes?

• What were we not seeing?

• What was the outcome?

All project personnel that are registered receive a personalised RFID-Card. When personnel board or disembark a vessel, then the RFID-Card is “swiped” or “registered” to automatically (de-)muster themselves with a vessel or location.

Movement tracking

Smarter TETRA terminals

• TETRA terminals are becoming smarter and better– More functionality, more flexibility, more power

• Sepura AppSPACE can run apps on TETRA radios– Smart Indoor Location app, and more...– Packaged and custom apps available

42 Bpm

BPS LOW

EQUIPM ENT

LEFT BEHIND

PIPE TEST PACK

ASSET 01273

OK

WARNING Radio Shutting Down

Data Report

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Control Message

Stay away from city centre until further

notice

Accept

Other Reply

Select

John J Sm ith

11:06:32

OK

HEALTH ALERT

42 Bpm

BPS LOW

Screen creation

M an DownHeart Rate

Location:

Room 505

John J Sm ith

13:36:02

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Screen creation

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network in Hindberg region

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Suspect package.Expected on bus network in Hindberg region

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Indoor Location App Details

• Beacons provide location information where no satellite is available• Industry standard beacons (Bluetooth 4 Low Energy, iBeacon,)• Easy low cost and practical installation required

– Beacons can be battery powered with battery life of 4+ years, no expensive cabling required

• Beacons can cover area from 1m to 200m– From tracking guard round points to airplane hangars

• Single device for critical voice, emergency and location– The same TETRA radio should do voice, location and apps

APPLI CATI ON S DATASHEET PRODUCTIVITY

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Hand-held devices

The application can be used to locate the following hand-held devices once installed with the relevant indoor location app:

• Sepura SC20 and SC21 TETRA radios

• iOS, Windows and Android based smartphones and tablets

Beacons

Indoor Location is compatible with industry standard Bluetooth 4 Low Energy (BLE) beacons using the iBeacon protocol. You can either connect to your existing network of compatible beacons or use Sepura’s beacons that of er:

• Long battery life (typically 3-4 years)

• Waterproof protection (IP65) via a robust and unobtrusive casing

• Compact size (52x50x35mm)

• Simple setup using administrative smartphone app

• Conf gurable signal range (covering a radius of 1-200m)

OVERVIEW

Sepura’s Indoor Location System comprises a software application that reports the real time location of TETRA radios and smartphones relative to a network of Bluetooth beacons positioned across a site.

›› Police›› Ambulance›› Airports›› Prisons›› Hospitals›› Factories and of ces

›› Industrial sites and processing plants›› Arenas and stadiums›› Museums›› Shopping centres›› Hotels ›› Wind farms

Indoor Location can improve safety and ef ciency for a wide variety of organisations:

Sepura’s policy is to continually improve its products and services. The features and facilities described in this document were correct at publication, but are subject to change without notice.

Software application

The Indoor Location application can report location data directly through its simple and easy t o use Graphical User Interface or supply the relevant data via API to enable display and control through an existing control room application.

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Sepura Indoor Location solutionImproving duty of care

• Beacon transmits location identifier periodically• Radio listens to beacon locations• Radio optimizes updates over TETRA• Radio sends location update over TETRA network• Indoor location application receives TETRA location

message• Indoor location application delivers positional

information to 3rd party application• Indoor location application shows locations and

users

Combined with LogOn/Off– name identified instead of radio ISSI

TETRA SDS message

QUERY

Beacons & SSIDs

Location updates to

third party systems

Checks known beacon

locations

Display location information

Location Users

BT643 Transition Matt, 55005

BT643 Nacelle John, 55003

Vessel 78 55001, 55012

Veseel 79 —

TETRA

Network

Generic photo of wind farm — Photo: SteKlueBe

Putting things in place

• Wind mill tower– Bluetooth beacons at each door

(bottom and top)

• Technical platform– TETRA base station

• Ships – Bluetooth beacons at entryways

• On-shore operations centre– Radio room– TETRA network base station– TETRA network central

components– Application servers– Office Bluetooth beacons

Summary

• TETRA provides communications and safety solution that supports communications and safety needs at this wind farm

• Wind farm is a really harsh environment with high communications and safety needs

• Voice and data together provide the best and required level of service

• Sepura delivered this complete communications solution– Sepura SC20 TETRA radios

• Waterproof, submersible, marine hardened, water porting audio, sensitive receiver, high 3W transmission power,

• Radio apps with AppSPACE — voice and safety apps in one device

– Teltronic TETRA network — proven for utilities around the world– Applications to enhance operations — Sepura apps included

• Indoor location application with beacons, radio and back-end• LogOn application, radio forms and back-end

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