Scientel Wireless is proud to announce that we will be attending the Midwest Security Conference 2011. The 2011 Midwest Security Conference will be held at the Wyndham Hotel in Lisle, IL. on March 28 – 29, 2011. Scientel Wireless will be at our booth on March 28 from 12 (noon) – 6 pm, please feel free to stop on by and see us.
Scientel will be demoing and showcasing convergence technology products and services including RFID, Video, Air Defense and 2 (two) – way radios.
County’s eyes are on you
40 more cameras going up on island
by Peter Sur
Tribune-Herald Staff Writer
Published: Thursday, July 29, 2010
Evildoers beware; 40 electronic eyes are being installed in downtown Hilo, Kailua-Kona, Pahoa and at Akaka Falls State Park.
The high-definition cameras can record and transmit video and even see in the dark. They can identify license plates and capture faces. And some of them are already operational.
Money for the cameras comes from the Hawaii Tourism Authority, which is funded by a portion of the transient accommodations tax levied on hotel guests. The County Council in 2008 accepted a $488,948 Police Department grant to install them.
According to Police Maj. Larry Weber, 16 of the cameras will be in downtown Hilo, 15 in Kailua-Kona, eight in Pahoa and one at Akaka Falls. They are intended to increase public safety.
“People come to Hawaii expecting paradise and to be safe,” said HTA Tourism Brand manager Momi Akimseu.
The statewide program results from the HTA’s 2005 Tourism Strategic Plan that identified several tourism initiatives, including one relating to visitors’ safety and security.
A pilot surveillance program on Oahu appeared successful in deterring crime, and the hotel tax-supported agency recently expanded it to Maui and Hawaii Island.
Government-funded security cameras have been installed in Pahoa as part of that town’s federal “Weed and Seed” program, but they have been disconnected and will be replaced by the HTA-funded ones. The Akaka Falls camera has not been installed yet.
Promises that the cameras won’t violate people’s privacy haven’t gone over well with the American Civil Liberties Union of Hawaii. The group issued a statement last year calling on citizens not to “give in to the impulse to blanket our public spaces and streets with government video surveillance and turn our aloha into a police state.”
Akimseu disagrees.
“The intent is not to be Big Brother,” she said, referring to criticisms that the cameras are a forerunner of the totalitarian dystopia described in the George Orwell novel “Nineteen Eighty-Four.”
“It wasn’t just people walking to work, people coming and going,” Akimseu said. “We’re sensitive to that.”
The cameras are not there to spy on people, she said. Rather, Akimseu portrayed it as part of an overall effort to protect the state’s economic engine — tourism — by supporting public safety.
Hawaii has traditionally had a low violent crime rate and a high property crime rate, with 31,424 theft and larceny cases reported statewide in 2008, according to the U.S. Department of Justice.
Akimseu acknowledges that having more officers on the beat is an effective deterrent, but she says the cameras will augment the existing force.
Weber, head of the Technical Services Division, said the intent of the cameras was not to catch motorists using cell phones or smoking in a car carrying children. Instead, he said, it’s for the benefit of visitors who might go to high-traffic areas “and so they perceive that it is a safe environment, because they know there are cameras that are keeping an eye on them and keeping an eye on criminal activity.”
“They’re not really geared to watch traffic per se,” Weber said. “I know people are going to be concerned that we’ll be watching for speeders or running lights. But that’s not our intention. It’s to oversee areas where tourists and people walk around. Like if you want to go to a restaurant with your family, and go to a restaurant downtown, or to the movies, or anything like that.”
Nobody has yet been convicted on video evidence, Weber said, but “we have had a couple crimes which we need to access the recorded information to see if it can help to solve the crime.”
Scientel Wireless, with headquarters in Lombard, Ill., started installing the cameras around the end of May. Police are able to watch the video feed on a manpower-available basis.
Dave Swirsky, the Hawaii-based business development manager for Scientel Wireless, said the digital cameras are wide angle, with the ability to zoom in closely on activity. Data is transmitted wirelessly through a network the company built, and recorded on a server.
The area covered by the cameras depends on the site, Swirsky said. Some of the dome enclosures have two cameras with a 180¬ degree field of view. Others allow a more detailed look at a particular area. Swirsky emphasized that police were not using the cameras to catch red light violators.
“We’re happy to help the county,” one of the company’s best customers, Swirsky said.
Two community groups, the Hilo Downtown Improvement Association and the Kailua Village Business Improvement District, are partners in the effort.
Alice Moon of the HDIA said the jury was still out on the surveillance program’s effectiveness until it is fully operational.
“The business people in downtown Hilo are very glad that this is happening,” she said.
Meanwhile, Danny Li of Keaau wasn’t so sure. He was shown one of the cameras attached to a light pole in the parking lot adjacent to the Mooheau Bus Terminal.
“I understand the rationale’s supposed to be increased security, but as a general idea, I think we’re just getting too overly surveilled,” Li said. He asked whether crime was that big a problem in downtown Hilo, and whether this was discussed in the community.
“Big Brother’s increased surveillance on all of us,” he said.
For more information contact:
Michael Zloza, Marketing & Communications, (630) 652-3809 mzloza@scientelwireless.com
Peter Sur, psur@hawaiitribune-herald.com
What is Narrowbanding?
In an effort to promote more efficient use of spectrum, the FCC mandated all VHF and UHF Public Safety and Industrial /Business licensees using 25 kHz land mobile radio (LMR) systems migrate to narrowband 12.5 kHz efficiency technology by January 1, 2013.
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The Federal Communications Commission (FCC) started the narrowbanding proceedings, also known as refarming, almost twenty years ago in an effort to promote more efficient spectrum use in the 150-174 MHz (VHF) and 421-512 MHz (UHF) Part 90 radio frequency bands. The FCC has released numerous rulings during this time defining the requirements and mandating specific deadlines.
The purpose of this document is to provide you with the narrowbanding facts, starting with the key dates and requirements you need to know, followed by exemptions and additional information, how Motorola products meet the requirements, and steps licensees should take starting now.
KEY DATES AND REQUIREMENTS:
The FCC is mandating all Public Safety and Industrial/Business licensees convert existing 25 kHz efficiency operations in the VHF and UHF bands to minimum 12.5 kHz efficiency analog or digital operation, and that going forward they implement no more 25 kHz efficiency systems. To implement this mandate, the FCC developed rules and deadlines that impact both radio users and equipment providers.
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Are your radio system and subscribers ready for Narrowbanding?
The Federal Communications Commission (FCC) is mandating all public safety and industrial/business licensees convert existing 25 kHz radio systems to minimum narrowband 12.5 kHz efficiency technology by January 1, 2013. The purpose of the narrowband mandate is to promote more efficient use of the VHF and UHF land mobile frequency bands.
Who is affected?
All land mobile Part 90, 25 kHz efficiency systems operating on VHF (150-174 MHz) and UHF (421-512 MHz) frequency bands.
Key dates
The FCC has set the following deadlines for licensees and manufacturers, requiring migration to minimum 12.5 kHz efficiency systems.
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Scientel Wireless, LLC has been selected to replace an outdated and obsolete wireless system for Rosalind Franklin University of Medicine and Science with Motorola’s robust family of award-winning Wireless 802.11n LAN products.
Rosalind Franklin University
“We are excited to be selected by Rosalind Franklin University to provide their campus-wide wireless solution. We’ve selected Motorola’s wireless broadband technology because of the company’s continued innovation in wireless technologies especially in their Wireless Broadband Solutions, Wireless Security, and Network Management portfolio” said Nelson C. Santos, President of Scientel Wireless. He continued by saying, “bandwidth is in demand and 802.11n is the right answer for the University, offering the campus community a superior wireless experience.”
The Mission Statement in Rosalind Franklin University’s 2007-2011 Strategic Plan declares that the University is “To serve the nation through the education of health and biomedical professionals and the discovery of knowledge dedicated to improving the health of its people.” It is critical to the doctors, researchers, faculty and students to have information at hand anywhere within the campus environment. Adopting the 802.11N wireless standard will provide the campus community with the most advanced wireless technology available.
“As a postgraduate institution drawing our students from the finest undergraduate and graduate institutions around the world, our students have come to expect high quality facilities that enable them to achieve academic success. A robust wireless experience is not really optional for our institution; it is a requirement,” said Richard Loesch, Chief Information Officer, Rosalind Franklin University of Medicine and Science. “We selected Scientel Wireless because they have clearly shown a dedication to providing a high-quality wireless experience at other educational and health care institutions. Throughout our relationship we have seen that they really care about providing a quality wireless experience to our students.”
Rosalind Franklin University reviewed many solutions and selected Scientel due to their extensive design and implementation experience in Campus Wide Wireless, Video Security, Mobile Data, Point to Multi Point and Point to Point Wireless Systems. Scientel has installed over 20,000 Access Points and over 5,000 Point to Point networks nationwide over the past 10 years.
The solution at Rosalind Franklin University will include replacement of an existing wireless system and will provide the University with ubiquitous (802.11a, b, g, n) wireless coverage throughout the main campus buildings. This solution will also connect the main campus to the University’s clinical facility utilizing a wireless Point to Point (PTP) system that will reduce leased line costs. Scientel will be responsible for the design, installation and optimization of the entire system. The system will be completed and in operation in the first quarter of 2010.
Scientel’s solution includes Motorola AP7131- 802.11n Tri-Radio Access Points, Motorola RFS 7000 redundant switch, RF Management System (RFMS), Motorola PTP500 and Motorola’s Air Defense solution. Air Defense will be used for the security of the wireless environment and be handled through consistent 24 x 7 monitoring of the complete wireless environment. This includes compliance monitoring, rogue detection, termination, and advanced troubleshooting, which includes live mapping of the current RF environment, live network data and expansion to outdoor and point to point wireless deployments. Rosalind Franklin University will have a secure and easy-to-manage network.
About Scientel Wireless
Headquartered in Lombard, Illinois, Scientel Wireless is a single source provider of multi-site wireless communication systems to the municipal and business community. Since 1992, Scientel Wireless has delivered top quality services in network consulting, design, implementation and support. Our innovative teams of experts deploy secure solutions that increase communications, reduce overall costs and improve the ability to service their customers.
Visit us at www.scientelwireless.com.
For additional information on Scientel Wireless, contact Michael Zloza at 815-714-9882 or email to mzloza@scientelwireless.com or visit Scientel Wireless online at www.scientelwireless.com.
About Rosalind Franklin University of Medicine and Science
Rosalind Franklin University of Medicine and Science is a national leader in interprofessional medical and healthcare education, comprising the Chicago Medical School, College of Health Professions, Dr. William M. Scholl College of Podiatric Medicine and School of Graduate and Postdoctoral Studies.
Rosalind Franklin University recently received approval for its new doctoral program in
Interprofessional Healthcare Studies – the first in Illinois – and has launched a new master in science program in Psychology Clinical Counseling in fall 2008.
There are nearly 16,000 RFUMS degreed graduates in the United States and worldwide.
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By Anna Marie Kukec | Daily Herald Columnist
Published: 4/3/2009 10:47 AM
Lewis University
Daily Hareld
The campus is perhaps the first in the nation to have wireless, high-speed broadband both inside and outside its buildings, reaching out to its outdoor sporting events as well as its own airport.
It’s also the first time Motorola combined some of its industry-known products, such as Mesh, wireless connectivity for governments and the public sector, and its recently acquired AirDefense wireless security to cover the entire campus.
“At the end of the day, it’s about access for people where those people are,” said Tim Mason, Motorola senior director of wireless broadband in Schaumburg.
Lewis University officials felt something was needed, especially since its current wireless system was outdated and unreliable, and it didn’t meet the needs of the incoming wave of new students. So it enlisted Motorola along with wireless service provider Scientel Wireless.
“In today’s competitive, quickly evolving education environment, it is crucial to provide high-speed wireless Internet access in every part of the campus,” Lewis University President Brother James Gaffney said in a statement.
It also was necessary to not only connect students and teachers, but to provide full services for data, video and voice applications. The new network also serves as a backup to the university’s wired infrastructure, Mason said.
“If they had clouds or wind or when the trees changed with the season, the outside elements all changed the game a bit,” Mason said.
So Motorola combined its products, coupled with AirDefense, which offers wireless security to repel hackers.
Now, students or faculty can open their laptops anywhere on campus, inside or outside the classroom, and connect to the Wi-Fi network, Mason said.
Motorola aims to market similar Wi-Fi systems for other universities, Mason said.
“The benefits are so great and this offers a blueprint,” Mason said. “It’s not as cumbersome or expensive either.”
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• Verizon Wireless, which has its Midwest headquarters in Schaumburg, is joining the Joint Innovation Lab established by China Mobile, Softbank and Vodafone to help create mobile technologies for the mass market. They’re focusing on creating a global platform for mobile widgets, which will enhance the mobile Internet for smartphones as well as some handsets that are on multiple operating systems.
• Chicago-based GenXpense.com offers Generations X and Y a change to keep up on their finances with its educational resources.
• AT&T, which has its Midwest headquarters in Hoffman Estates, said its U-verse TV, Internet and Voice services are now available to more than 1 million of what the company called “living units” around the Chicago and suburban area. Living units – formerly known as households.
BroMenn Healthcare began their wireless implementation from the outside in
HealthCare
BroMenn Healthcare, located in rural central Illinois, consists of two integrated hospitals: BroMenn Regional Medical Center servicing the Bloomington area with 220 beds; and the Eureka Community Hospital with only 25 beds, residing in the small town of Eureka with a population 5,000. To care for its communities, BroMenn Physical Management Corp. reaches out to eight counties consisting of 15 clinics and 60 physicians including primary care, specialists and urgent care.
Increased demand for connectivity
With a focus on patient care, BroMenn was experiencing a growing need to share and transfer images for surgeries, births and digital mammographies as well as scan and archive registration and medical records. Without the ease of accessing patient information, doctors, nurses and other medical professionals had to wait for records in order to diagnose and treat the patient. If BroMenn was to provide the best service possible to its patients it had to speed up the communications process – and now. But there was a lingering problem that had to be addressed: redundancy. Vice president and chief information officer, Vince Vitali had to ensure the safety, accuracy and accessibility of the information if ever a problem arose. “It is instrumental to the care and well- being of BroMenn Healthcare patients to ensure 100 percent network and systems uptime. If anything were to happen to the data centre in Bloomington, we need to have a redundant data centre that can mirror all of our transactions and appear transparent to the medical professionals.”
The current environment
In rural towns technology choices are minimal. BroMenn was given only one solution: a Verizon T1. They were utilizing four T1 lines aggregated for data and one for voice. The only way to acquire additional capacity and speed was for BroMenn to purchase its own fibre cables at the price tag of $125,000. If the hospital implemented a solution provided by local carriers, all facilities would be taking an enormous risk with reliability and limited technology.
Building a case for wireless
Vitali decided it was time to research and explore other technology solutions, namely wireless. He called upon Motorola, located in Schaumburg, Illinois for assistance. Motorola focuses on the research and development of its wireless solutions relying on partners such as Scientel Wireless for design and implementation. After an in-depth review of BroMenn Healthcare’s wireless requirements, Scientel proposed a high-speed wireless backbone with a lower cost connection to the clinics. It would solve the issues of redundancy, transfer of images, and improved productivity with an ROI up to the hospital’s and its board’s standards.
The ROI model focused on the T1 line savings. BroMenn would eliminate the four T1 lines, 5.5 Mbps, at a cost of $117,000 annually or $135,985 including the voice T1. The wireless solution with 150 Mbps costs $291,000 which includes support for voice and the first wireless connection in Roanoke. Support is only an additional $24,000 per year. That generated a payback period of only 37 months. However, comparing the actual cost per Mbps of the T1 and wireless solution, $21,272 versus $805 respectively, better shows the real value of the new solution.
The result
BroMenn pays less per month and receives a connection with more capacity that’s as reliable if not more so and 25 times faster than its existing approach.
The new wireless solution is currently being installed by Scientel Wireless. Nelson Santos, president of Scientel Wireless and native to Canada, needed to address pre-conceived rumours about the reliability, security and complexity of wireless especially in a rural area. “Most people are not aware that over 90 percent of the public safety backbone networks are microwave networks,” said Santos. “Wireless solutions can be engineered for rain, snow and fog with a 99.999 percent reliability factor.” Most IT professionals are aware of the wireless solutions offered within the four walls of the hospital, but sometimes unaware of its ability to connect outside to mobile devices and Emergency Medical Technicians (EMT). “Enabling clear communications between hospitals, clinics, EMTs, doctors and nurses can sometimes mean the difference between life and death,” continued Santos. BroMenn will continue to expand the network to other locations, integrating the voice traffic, and adding support for handheld two-way radios. Vitali concluded, “With wireless in place, I can focus on applications that enhance communications with hospital professionals in order to provide the best patient care possible.” BroMenn Healthcare Enter #1349
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802.11n mesh access points help cities and businesses build a reliable, high-bandwidth wireless network infrastructure to meet growing mobility needs
Schaumburg, Ill. – October 8, 2009 – The Enterprise Mobility Solutions business of Motorola, Inc. (NYSE: MOT) today announced the AP 7181 access point, a high-performance, reliable and secure 802.11n outdoor mesh wide area network (MWAN) solution. Offering data speeds of up to 300 Mbps and featuring Motorola’s proprietary ADvanced Element Panel Technology (ADEPT) antenna system, the AP 7181 provides municipalities and enterprise customers with a flexible wireless network solution that supports their current and future data, video and voice needs.
Motorola’s AP 7181 outdoor mesh access points provide more network capacity, enable more applications and support more users than 802.11a/b/g mesh solutions, accelerating return on investment. Motorola’s innovative ADEPT antenna system enables the AP 7181 to achieve maximum performance by communicating two simultaneous data streams in the same channel and avoiding the self-shadowing of typical multi-antenna solutions. With antennas integrated into an aesthetic enclosure, Motorola’s solution overcomes the limitations of multiple antenna sticks in a typical 802.11n access point. Network availability and reliability is further strengthened with 802.11n radios specifically designed by Motorola to maintain full power at high data rates, ensuring enhanced client connections and superior mesh throughput throughout a coverage area.
“Our customers seek solutions that can support a broad range of fixed and mobile applications, from automated meter reading to field mobility to wireless video surveillance,” said Nelson Santos, president, Scientel Wireless. “802.11n mesh networks offer a compelling connectivity option with one infrastructure having enough bandwidth and capacity to support many of these applications simultaneously.”
Motorola’s outdoor mesh solution offers the powerful capabilities of 802.11n technologies, while also maintaining backward compatibility and improving performance for 802.11a/b/g clients, which helps customers maximize their existing mobility investments. The AP 7181 access point offers robust mobile data connections throughout a network by leveraging Motorola’s MeshConnex™ routing technology to enable efficient routing, low hop latency, low routing overhead, high-speed handoffs and proven scalability. The field-proven MeshConnex technology allows the AP 7181 to maintain a continuous video connection to or from a moving vehicle or train, enabling video surveillance in real time. Municipal and enterprise customers can also leverage these mobility features to deliver high-speed Internet access to mobile workers who need to stay connected to key office applications while in the field.
Municipalities are increasingly looking to wireless broadband technologies to help them save money and enhance city services with advanced mobility applications that include e-citations, automated meter reading, intelligent traffic systems or wireless video security for public safety. The increased data rates and network capacity delivered by the Motorola AP 7181 solution enable municipal customers to leverage a single private wireless network to support a wide range of mobility applications while offering WiFi access to residents and businesses. Businesses and education institutions are also finding an increasing need for mobile access across campus environments, seeking solutions that can offer superior throughput and stronger backhaul connections while delivering reliable and secure coverage using fewer access points. The AP 7181 offers organizations involved in the education, transportation and industrial markets a cost-effective wireless broadband solution that has enough capacity, power and throughput to support even the most bandwidth-demanding applications like video and voice.
“Working with municipal and enterprise customers across the globe, Motorola has a long history of delivering innovative solutions that enable them to leverage mobility applications to help streamline operations, increase worker safety and improve productivity,” said Scott French, MSSI vice president and senior sales director for emerging technologies and solutions, Motorola Enterprise Mobility Solutions. “Motorola’s high-capacity, high-throughput 802.11n mesh solution will enable customers to future-proof their network infrastructure investments to support both current as well as future application needs.”
Customers can leverage wireless network design and management solutions from the Motorola One Point Wireless Suite to ensure faster deployment, maximum network performance and reduced network maintenance costs. The recently introduced Motorola BroadbandPlanner is an intuitive software solution that helps customers propose, design, deploy and measure outdoor 802.11n mesh wireless networks. With an advanced RF modeling engine, ability to export design information to Google Maps for easy viewing, and streamlined measurement and verification capabilities, this innovative solution helps customers propose wireless network solutions with confidence and deploy them with maximum efficiency.
Once deployed, the 802.11n mesh wide area network can be accurately monitored, managed and optimized using the Motorola Wireless Manager. Offering network administrators a visualization of their entire outdoor and indoor wireless network through a Google Map view, this comprehensive management solution makes it easy to manage the complexities of a multi-layer wireless network by clearly showing performance metrics, network relationships and locations of all wireless elements.
Customers can purchase the AP 7181 mesh solution beginning in the fourth quarter of 2009.
Motorola delivers seamless connectivity that puts real-time information in the hands of users, which gives customers the agility they need to grow their business or better serve and protect the public. Working seamlessly together with its world-class devices, Motorola’s unrivaled wireless network solutions include indoor wireless LAN, outdoor wireless mesh, point-to-multipoint, point-to-point networks and voice-over-WLAN solutions. Combined with powerful software tools for wireless network design, best-of-breed security, management and troubleshooting, Motorola’s solutions deliver trusted networking and access anywhere to organizations across the globe.
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