EADS Contributes to the Improvement of Operational Capacities in French Civil Security with the Support of the VAR SDIS
DRAGUIGNAN, 08 July 2003
The EADS (European Aeronautic Defence and Space Company) group and several European manufacturers in association with the Var Fire and Rescue Departmental Service today successfully tested a new information system developed as part of the European EGERIS (European Generic Emergency Response Information System) project supported by the European Commission.
This full-scale test of an operation to put out a forest fire, which took place on 8 July 2003 in the presence of the Var departmental authorities, demonstrated that new technologies could help to improve our ability to manage Civil Security crises.
The Egeris information system prototype was installed on an operational site of the Civil Security and on the intervention site. This system, set up with the Var fire fighters, enabled around thirty vehicles equipped with transmission and new generation information resources to exchange a large amount of positioning, fire development and messaging data.
In concrete terms, the fire fighters deployed on the ground were permanently supplied with all the data necessary for their mission (cards, position of vehicles, area of the fire) thanks to PDA-type visualisation screens or tablets linked to a GPS and to the TETRAPOL secure digital radiocommunication system.
For EGERIS, EADS Systems & Defence Electronics, the coordinator of the project, has created applications enabling messages to be sent and vehicles and fire areas to be monitored.
The French company Webraska provided its navigation software. These applications are supported by the data transmission offered by the TETRAPOL digital radiocommunication system provided by EADS TELECOM.
During the demonstration, operational rooms and mobile command vehicles, all interconnected through a TETRAPOL infrastructure, were permanently able to follow the progress of the vehicles and to precisely visualise the fire’s progress in real time, thus making it possible to rapidly take decisions appropriate for the needs of the moment and especially to optimise use of the available resources.
Providing these hi-tech resources and gathering together these competencies that are unique in Europe is intended to prefigure future emergency service needs.
The demonstration of the EGERIS project successfully illustrates the collaboration between European manufacturers and an emergency service where France plays a leading role.
For EADS, the success of the demonstration of 8 July has made it possible to develop the capacities to apply its knowledge in military command systems to the civilian arena. This conclusive experience also demonstrated the abilities of the group in the area of information and secure information systems applied to the domain of public security.
Regarding EADS TELECOM
EADS TELECOM has expertise both in digital radiocommunications and fixed telecommunications in an IP environment, from tested and operational civil technologies to the security of information systems. Thanks to the TETRAPOL technology, EADS TELECOM is the world number one in the field of secure digital radio networks, with 70 networks in 31 countries of which 15 have national coverage.
Regarding EADS Systems & Defence Electronics
EADS Systems & Defence Electronics is one of the main European suppliers of defence electronics. S&DE supplies civil and military command and crisis management systems, data acquisition methods by satellite and surveillance and reconnaissance drones.
Regarding EADS:
EADS is a leading international defence and aeronautical company. With 29.9 billion euros in turnover in 2002, EADS is the world number two in the field of aeronautics, space and defence. The group employs more than 100, 000 people and is one of the biggest world players in defence technologies, commercial planes, helicopters, space, military transport and combat aircraft, and associated services. Its range of products includes Airbus, the commercial aircraft manufacturer, Eurocopter, the biggest helicopter in the world, Astrium, the space company and MBDA, the second largest missile manufacturer in the world. EADS is also the leading partner of the Eurofighter consortium and manages the A400M transport aircraft programme. EADS has more than 70 sites in France, Germany, Spain and the UK and has a presence in markets all over the world, including the US, Russian and Asia.
Press Contacts:
EADS TELECOM
Brigitte Faure
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Brigitte.faure@eads-telecom.com
EADS Systems & Defence Electronics
Patrick Brunet
Tel: 01 34 63 70 79
Patrick.brunet@sysde.eads.net
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