Federated Testbed for Public safety Communications

Project Summary

Contact: Adrian Boukalov adrian.boukalov(at)uni.lu

The Federated Test bed for Public Safety Communications (FT- PSC) is an open project established jointly by PanLab (http://www.panlab.net) and Safety Research Initiative of PSCE Forum (http://www.publicsafetycommunication.eu).

The FT-PSC project is building federated European test bed for interoperability testing of public safety communication and information systems. The test bed will allow European telecom manufactures and software providers to carry out tests and evaluation of their products, R&D results in international environment with participation of public safety users. The Federated test bed will make possible to test large scale heterogeneous communication systems including the heterogeneous networks simultaneously based on several standards such as GPRS, UMTS, WLAN, WiMax, PMR (TETRA, TETRPOL, P25). The integrated - deployable and fixed networks will be part of the federated test bed.

The FT PSC project will connect and use unique resources and testing facilities available in different countries. It will use and connect the relevant test bed platforms developed by European framework projects, national projects and industry.

The federated test bed project is going to provide experimental platform for experimentally driven research in several areas of communication and information systems important for public safety.

The work of the project will be carried out in cooperation with activities of PanLab, PlugTest initiative of ETSI and Public Safety Communication Europe Forum (PSCE).

The project will provide not only technical platform but also should establish an administrative and legal framework for permanent entity for interoperability and conformance testing in Europe for public safety.

The project is open and welcome participation of new partners including partners outside the European Union.

The FT PSC is going to use and coordinate activities of several projects that will be using different instruments and funding possibilities provided by FP, CELTIC, Interreg, National and industrial research programmes.

Project will develop evolutional road map for further development, field trails and conformance testing for European public safety.

FT- PSC project field trials will involve international participation of public safety user organisations and will include coordination of international disaster relief operations scenarios, testing of new applications, testing of  international interoperability at different levels.