Delivering messaging and location services to 40K Romanian border control operatives

The admission of Romania to the Schengen Agreement, whilst enabling greater freedom of movement at the country's borders, has also highlighted the need for superior security measures for Romania and its neighbouring countries.

The Ministry of Internal Affairs (MAI) in Romania required state-of-the-art data solutions for mission critical border control operations. A number of manufacturers specifically developed a variety of integrated applications to be deployed over countrywide TETRA networks. Such applications addressed the needs of border control operatives such as field workers and control room operators, whilst also fulfilling critical communications requirements on a national scale with the introduction of integrated data applications.

As the Schengen Agreement calls for closer police and judicial cooperation, special attention has been given to the deployment of a countrywide solution which enabled information sharing within a variety of law enforcement groups.

The challenge

The Romanian MAI's requirements were driven by the Integrated Border Security Systems (SISF) Programme whose main objective was the deployment of a countrywide integrated solution. Portalify, part of the Sepura Group, was tasked with the delivery of Automatic Vehicle Location (AVL) and messaging solutions applications over two separate TETRA networks across Romania.

Specifically, one requirement was the support of up to 40,000 border control users with the delivery of integrated applications, hence requiring the implementation of an Inter-System Interface (ISI) to enable data communications across both networks.

Read more about the solution that was delivered by Portalify.