TETRA Enhanced Data Services (TEDS)

The growth of data over TETRA is well established. It began with low-bandwidth applications such as Short Data Service, status and location, evolving steadily toward more advanced messaging and data-base lookup applications available today. TEDS enables these data applications to run much faster while helping make other data services, such as the transfer of images or video, more efficient.

A key concern for network providers is maximising the value of their existing investments. To support this aim, our DIMETRA IP system has been designed so that only a simple software upgrade is required to implement TEDS, ensuring full reuse of existing TETRA network assets and management infrastructure.”

For enhanced personnel safety and efficient incident response, TEDS-enabled networks offer support for live video streaming between emergency responders and control rooms. By offering a secure, high-availability communications platform, TEDS is well suited to a wide range of public safety applications. These include license-plate checks, remote access to databases – such as the electoral roll to check identities – and mobile fingerprint scanning applications.