Digital radios with GPS for non-profit health agency

A rented radio trunking service was being used by the Guayaquil Welfare Board in Ecuador which didn’t meet the great demands required in communication between different areas and institutions.

These failures of communication were highly risky as it continually ran out of signal within hospital operating rooms and the noise emitted blocked a clear voice transmission, especially when the chaos was generated in the area of emergency where it was of vital importance of effective communication in real time.

The Guayaquil Welfare Board, an autonomous non-profit agency governed by its own statutes under a board of directors, provides social assistance to millions of Ecuadorians in the areas of health, education, elderly care and funeral services.

After an extensive technical analysis, Brucarte SA, authorised distributor of Hytera in Ecuador, was chosen to provide a replacement solution complying with the demands required. Hytera DMR digital radios with GPS allowed timely communication and a full display in areas where this was necessary.

Under the DMR standard, TDMA retains the 12.5 kHz channel spacing and divides it into two alternating time slots. Each time slot acts as a separate communication channel with an equivalent bandwidth of 6.25 KHz. Thus, the efficiency of frequency use can be boosted by four times compared with an analog system, significantly saving the frequency resources.

With its digital coding of voice and addressing, DMR digital technology provides better noise rejection and preserves voice quality even when signals are weak.

The board said that despite not knowing the brand in the past, they were satisfied with the capabilities of the equipment, such as the transmission and reception quality of text and voice and the support and guarantee provided.