Aussie company tops awards' transport category

The winners of the 2018 International Critical Communications Awards were announced at a ceremony held in Berlin on 15 May in conjunction with the Critical Communications World conference and exhibition.

The winners and finalists in each category for this year are:

Best Use of Critical Communications for Transport

Winner: Radlink Communications for its Aurizon Rail Queensland TETRA system project.

Finalists

• Athens International Airport: Telematics Project Implementation
• Motorola Solutions: Rheinbahn, Ruhrbahn and Duisberger Verkehrsgesellschaft deploy Motorola Solutions DIMETRA IP Scalable
• Motorola Solutions: Trenes Argentinos Operaciones (SOFSE) – “Smart Mission Critical Solutions on Rails”

Best Innovation Award

Winner: Smith Myers Communications for its ARTEMIS avionics communication and location system, used to locate missing persons during disasters.

Finalists

• Bittium: Bittium Tough Mobile C
• Motorola Solutions: Si500 Video Speaker Microphone
• NIST/PSCR PSIAP Program
• Radlink Communications: Aurizon Rail Queensland TETRA System
• West Yorkshire Police: PRONTO

Best Use of Critical Communications for Public Safety

Winner: Norway-Sweden ISI project participants, including MSB, DSB, Airbus Solutions and Motorola Solutions

Finalists

• City of Hamburg: Operation Management of the G20 Summit
• Leonardo: TETRA Network for Argentina
• Nokia Solutions and Networks: Nokia Saving Lives
• State Secretariat of Public Safety for Rio de Janeiro: SIRCE

Best Use of Critical Communications in Utilities

Winner: PowerTrunk for its Diverse Power TETRA Network project

Finalists

• Korea Electric Power Corporation: Digitalized Trunked Radio Solution for Power Automation and Industry IoT
• Nokia: Converged FAN
• Yorkshire Water: Adoption of NetMotion’s Mobile Performance Management Software

Best Evolution to Future Broadband

Winner: Airbus for its Tactilon Dabat TETRA/LTE hybrid terminal.

Finalists

• Bittium: Bittium Tough Mobile HybridX Tactical Extension
• ETELM: 4GLinked
• Hytera Mobilfunk: Hytera Multi-mode Advanced Radios, PTC760/PDC760
• Teltronic: TETRA + LTE Convergent Solution

Outstanding Single-Site Critical Communications Installation

Winner: Athonet and AMBRA for their 5G-ready Critical Communications for Mining Deployments entry

Finalists

• Motorola Solutions: Making Campus Safety a Priority with Critical-Communications Technology and Services
• Nokia Solutions and Networks: Nokia Saving Lives

Best Use of Control Room Systems

Winner: Motorola Solutions with Project Green Light Detroit

Finalists

• APD Communications: Leading Critical Communications Innovation for the Control Room
• Ministry of Interior Kuwait: Decision Making Room

TCCA Young Engineer of the Year

Winner: Thomas Roth of Gryphon Secure

Finalists

• Rodrigo Batista de Moura, State Secretariat of Public Safety for Rio de Janeiro
• Ermin Huremovic, APD Communications
• Islam Saif, Motorola Solutions

Outstanding Contribution to Critical Communications

Winner: David Chater-Lea

Finalist: Mike Norfield, Simoco Wireless Solutions

Image credit: ©stock.adobe.com/au/Alexander Vasilyev

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