I. Background

With social instability and natural disasters causing losses rising year by year, urban management and emergency management are important tasks for local governments and related departments. Zhanjiang Fire Brigade takes the initiative to meet the needs of "full disaster, big emergency" and comprehensively improve the emergency communication security capacity in Zhanjiang city under extremely complex and harsh environments such as network interruptions, traffic disruptions, and power outages. Thus, Zhanjiang firefighting forces decided to build a rapid deployment communication system to help improve scientific decision-making and practical command capability and enhance the firefighting team's resilience and collaborative operation capability in fire safety supervision and management and fire fighting and rescue operations. 

II. Demand analysis

Considering the needs of different units such as the branch, brigade and squadron for daily duty and emergency rescue communication, BelFone Communication planned the following three-level communication network.

1 The city's fire wireless communication command network: it realized a city-wide network that can guarantee daily management and emergency rescue dispatching communications between the command centers of fire brigades and squadrons in each county, achieving seamless roaming in the city and communication coverage in most areas.

2 Regional firefighting command network: fully considered the "whole process, whole element" communication needs of the command in the emergency operation, it takes urban and county/city fire brigade, squadron as a unit, and focuses on meeting the moving communication and forward command needs, combining regional units into a whole of the management and command and dispatch.

3 On-site fire rescue network: it ensured smooth communication during the firefighting and rescue task and solved the problem of last-mile coverage.

III. Soluiton Advantages

Based on the current situation of infrastructure construction of Zhanjiang Fire Brigade, in line with the principle of priority, focus and reasonable use of limited resources, BelFone Communication built a set of communication system for Zhanjiang Fire Brigade, which relied on the advanced wireless communication technology of digital communication system combined with the characteristics of the geographical environment of Zhanjiang City and the communication needs of the fire brigade from daily routine to fire fighting and rescue and then to full disaster rescue. The system meets the needs of daily and emergency communication and highlights the protection of rapid deployment and unified command in fire rescue operations. The system features wide coverage area, flexible networking, rapid expansion, disaster tolerance and destruction resistance, accurate communication of information, security and confidentiality, etc., so as to facilitate uninterrupted command and close coordination of operations. It ensures the city's efficient fire command and dispatching by providing high-quality voice and data transmission functions. 

Solution Highlights.

1 The user can group the department and clear the structure just based on BF-TD950 group information. The new communication system supports digital-analog compatible, which realized the smooth transition from analog to digital.

2 In case of emergency, the radios under all stations can realize unified dispatching to ensure the efficient and orderly communication.

3 The BF-TD950 PDT digital handheld radio can be used by staff in each base station in daily work to achieve independent work, clear voice calls without affection or interference by other terminals.

IV. Customer Value

The high-performance communication system is very important for safe and efficient firefighting and full disaster rescue. With the efficiency improvement of rescue, BelFone provides this highly efficient, stable and cost-effective communication system, which realized the highly coordinated cooperation among all departments of the firefighting team and guaranteed the smooth emergency communication for all-hazard rescue. This is another vital breakthrough of BelFone PDT communication project in fire fighting applications.