Collaboration with Vodafone Business on a pioneering IoT project

Vodafone will start a pilot during the Nijmegen Four Days Marches, which will take place from 16 to 19 July, to test the use of an IoT device. This should improve the mutual communication between various emergency services, such as the ambulance and the police.

The pilot is being carried out by the Fieldlab Grootschalige Evenementen, to which Vodafone Business is affiliated. Emergency services communicate via their own C2000 system and the organisers via walkie-talkies, but there is no shared communication network, Vodafone writes about the reason for the pilot. The provider has commissioned IoT company Spinnov to develop a device that sends the GPS location and a short message regarding the crowd image to the police control room.

This is done via 4G-LTE-M network, Vodafone says in a response to Tweakers. By means of network slicing, the emergency service that presses the button is given priority on a part of the network. In this way, the service should not suffer from any possible overload on the network, Vodafone Business explains. "In a sense, a digital emergency lane opens up on the network with extra capacity." The message arrives at the police control room in Apeldoorn. From there, the deployment of the services is coordinated. All information comes together there and from there, the operation is initiated via the command lines, says the provider.

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