The public security secretary of the State of Río de Janeiro, Brazil, has chosen Teltronic, part of the Sepura Group, to provide communications for the Summer Olympics and Paralympics.
The €10 million contract will cover key transport routes in the Olympic area and four venues in Barra da Tijuca, Copacabana, Deodoro and Maracanã, in addition to Galeão International Airport and Santos Dumont airport. The agreement with Teltronic will see an extension to the traffic capabilities of the existing Teltronic network currently used by the Rio police. Additional Nebula base stations will be deployed to provide additional coverage for the state police and emergency services, and the Olympics organisation work force.
The existing network was originally provided by Teltronic for the Pan American Games in 2007 and the upgrades made since have meant it can support more than 100 dispatch operators and more than 18,000 radios. The upgrade for the Olympics will feature two extra TETRA carriers for each site. This will update the capacity of the existing network through base stations with up to 12 TETRA transceivers to support high traffic loads throughout the event.
A Teltronic CeCoCo Control Centre will accommodate a further 50 dispatch operators and an additional 6,000 terminals featuring Teltronic’s Synchronous Data Manager application to pare down the GPS refresh time in AVL applications. There will also be 24/7 maintenance and operational support during the Games.
“This win builds on our long-term relationship with the Brazilian authorities and public safety agencies,” said Paulo Ferrao, the Sepura Group’s sales director for Brazil. “We have a strong background in events of this scale, having supported communications for the FIFA World Cup 2014 and the Pan-American Games – both huge events in the sporting calendar of Brazil and, indeed, the world. We are delighted that Rio de Janeiro’s public safety agencies have, once again, placed their trust in us.”
“[Teltronic] has been a trustworthy partner to our public safety agencies for over 10 years,” said Colonel Alexandre Corval, superintendent of critical communications at the security secretariat of the State. “Once again, they have exceeded our expectations in terms of technical development, quality of the deployment and, above all, their dedication to customer service: throughout the project, they have paid close attention to our technical and operational requirements.
“We are confident that this extension to the existing Teltronic TETRA system will optimise our mission critical communications, enhancing the security of both visitors and employees throughout Rio 2016."
