CHORIST consortium members on a map
Image 1 : Location of CHORIST partners in Europe
CHORIST consortium members list
| # | Participant name | Logo | Country |
|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | EADS Defence and Security Systems |  |
France |
| 2 | Avanti Communications Ltd |  |
United Kingdom |
| 3 | Elsag Datamat S.p.A |  |
Italy |
| 4 | EADS Secure Networks Oy | |
Finland |
| 5 | Komcentra s.r.o. |  |
Czech Republic |
| 6 | one2many B.V. |  |
The Netherlands |
| 7 | Thales Communications SA |  |
France |
| 8 | Tradia Telecom SA |  |
Spain |
| 9 | Vodafone Espaņa SA |  |
Spain |
| 10 | Institut Eurecom |  |
France |
| 11 | European Commission Directorate General Joint Research Centre |
 |
Italy |
| 12 | Stichting Platform Mobile Messages |  |
The Netherlands |
| 13 | Technische Universiteit Delft |  |
The Netherlands |
| 14 | Teknillinen Korkeakoulu (Helsinki University of Technology) |
 |
Finland |
| 15 | BAPCO (British Association of Public-Safety Communications Officers Limited) |  |
United Kingdom |
| 16 | European Emergency Number Association |  |
Belgium |
Table 1 : Members of the CHORIST consortium
CHORIST Consortium members activities
1. EADS Defence and Security Systems
The Business Unit EADS (European Aeronautics Defence and Space company) Defence and Communication Systems (DCS) is part of the Defence & Security Systems (DS) Division of EADS. The DCS goal is to create complete communication and information systems solutions including platforms and to provide the means of implementing these solutions. EADS is committed to ensuring that professional organisations, from police departments to utility companies, have the highest level of confidence in their secure communications.
EADS Secure Networks (ESNFR) activities are of strategic importance to EADS. All civil and military organisations, whether public or private, national or local, need completely reliable and fully secure radio communications systems to coordinate their actions and increase their operational efficiency. These systems are developed by ESNFR. In TETRAPOL and TETRA, EADS has the two most important technologies available and can offer tailor-made solutions that meet customers' requirements.
With digital Professional Mobile Radio (PMR) customers in around 56 countries, EADS is the world's leading provider of PMR networks, having successfully delivered 130 networks, more than 30 of which with nation wide coverage.
EADS Defence and Security Systems SA is part of DCS. EADS Homeland Security Line of Business provides fully-integrated modular solutions and services in order to minimise risk exposure in the areas of surveillance, population protection, infrastructure security, responses to emergencies and international reaction operations.
EADS offers global security solutions tailored to real and ever more demanding operational needs, delivering maximised efficiency by enabling optimal use of data and information throughout and across the relevant security organisations.
Avanti Communications Ltd was formed in September 1995, with the objective of developing operational applications of advanced communications services. The company has had considerable success in this area, gaining specialised expertise in the procurement, implementation and end-to-end integration of satellite and terrestrial communications systems for a variety of applications, including secure content distribution and bespoke multicast and two-way communications services. The company has extensive experience in the development of telecommunications solutions for environmental applications, having led a number of projects, including Integrated Satellite Technologies for Operational Services (ISTOS), an ESA project in support of emergency management applications, and Application of Advanced Satellites to Fisheries Management, a contract with the DGXIV (Fisheries) of the EC. Avanti employs over 110 staff and has a turnover in excess of 10 MEuro per annum.
For more than thirty years, ELSAG DATAMAT has been a leading Italian group in designing and producing Information and Communication Technology solutions.
ELSAG DATAMAT operate in specific areas of the Defence, Space, Public Administration, Healthcare, Banking, Finance, Insurance, Telecommunications, Media and Utilities markets. Aware of the increasingly strategic role played by ICT in core business management, ELSAG DATAMAT offers a fundamental leverage to provide public and private organisations with more efficient, higher quality services. The group numbers around 1,550 highly qualified professionals throughout various branches in Italy and abroad. The parent company, ELSAG DATAMAT S.p.A., is organised into three divisions: Government and Institutions, Banking Finance and Insurance, Telco Media and Utilities.
Together with subsidiaries, associated companies and specialised consortiums, the divisions operate vertically with a strong focus on clients in the group's specialist markets. The Government and Institutions Division includes some groups that provide advanced technological solutions in the sectors of meteorology, environmental monitoring and emergency management for civil protection.
ELSAG DATAMAT started the activities within these sectors in the 80's, progressively enlarging the field of action up to reaching the leadership in meteorological data acquisition and processing. In the middle of 90's ELSAG DATAMAT added solutions for environmental monitoring (air pollution, subsidence, protected natural parks) and natural disasters management (floods, landslides, fires, earthquakes, etc.), which include early warning systems and information management systems for decision support to civil protection.
EADS Secure Networks Finland, former Nokia Networks Professional Mobile Radio (PMR) up to September 3rd, 2005, is active in the business of PMR, developing, manufacturing, selling and marketing TETRA system and terminals.
PMR has developed over the last 9 years a comprehensive TETRA network for rich voice and data multi organisation communication, based on the European TETRA open standard created by ETSI (European Telecommunication Standard Institute). EADS Secure Networks Oy is the clear leader in functionality and scalability compared to other players in TETRA. EADS Secure Networks delivers complete TETRA solutions, providing end-to-end solutions from networks (digital switches and base stations), including network management and services, to terminals.
TETRA is the technology that offers mission critical functionality and security for professionals. Comprising two-way radio, mobile telephony, messaging and IP packet data in one system, EADS Secure Networks Oy offers excellent communication tools for demanding users. As a global leader in TETRA, EADS Secure Networks has unrivalled ability to develop TETRA networks that can provide reliable, seamless services while ensuring privacy through virtual private networks (VPNs).
With more than 5,500 TETRA base stations and more than 150 TETRA switches around the world in operation today, EADS Secure Networks Oy is the system provider of choice for reliable and secure communications for many public safety agencies using TETRA. It is to the benefit of public safety and security organisations to have available such a rich communications platform, which could be efficiently shared between several organisations. It is to the benefit of European industry to extend the use of most modern European technology to the segment of crisis management communications.
Komcentra s.r.o. is a small sized highly specialised company, with the manpower of 5+5 kernel developers (hardware + software) plus outsourcing.
Founded in 1991, since 1995, it has been focused on Communication, Command and Control Rooms (Operation Centres) for Police, Fire Brigade, Ambulance and Civil Defence.
As a systems integrator, Komcentra is both (1) turnkey solution provider for Police and (2) interface hardware/software developer for communication systems involved in e.g. Telephony, Radio networks, Siren control etc. Over 90 command rooms deployed nation wide (regional and district level). Other development tasks for law enforcement as well.
Acision Nederland B.V. was a participant in the CHORIST consortium. Acision has outsourced its cell broadcast development, marketing, support and deployment activities to one2many B.V. in 2007. Acision will remain the sole sales channel for the Cell Broadcast System.
one2many started its activities on 1 November 2007 as a privately owned company and is fully dedicated to further develop and market the Cell Broadcast System in close cooperation with Acision.
Thales Communications S.A. is a subsidiary of the Thales group and is part of its Communications Business Group. Thales Communications SA is a world leader in its domain of activity covering communications networks, satellite communications, mobile radio-communications, naval & infrastructure communication systems, airborne communication, navigation and identification systems both for civil and military aircraft, command information systems, radio-surveillance systems and radio spectrum monitoring.
Thales Communications Advanced Information Technologies (TAI) Department is the French laboratory of the Internet Technology Centre of Thales Corporate Research & Technologies. This Centre is in charge of technological innovation for Thales telecommunications equipment and information systems. This team is involved in leading edge IT projects aiming at the specification, design and integration of security and telecommunication infrastructures.
The technology areas relevant for the CHORIST project include wireless activities for ad hoc networks and WLAN/WMAN technologies, MAC issues for reconfigurability and networking, in particular in the context of ad hoc networks.
Based in Barcelona, TRADIA Telecom S.A. is a telecommunication company addressed to provide network infrastructure and telecommunication services for broadcasters, telecommunication operators and closed groups of users.
TRADIA is part of Abertis Telecom group that employs aprox. 1300 people (250 in TRADIA) and had a turn over of about 270 M€ in 2004. The company is completely controlled by Abertis Telecom that is part of Abertis Infraestructuras Holding, quoted at IBEX stock exchange. The most significant products and services marketed are:
- Infrastructures for telecommunication (deployment of network and housing services)
- Carrier services
- Broadcast services analogue and digital (for radio and TV stations)
- PMR services: Radiocommunications networks for emergency services, including Control Centres.
- Engineering and O&M services
Tradia owns two PMR networks based on digital trunking technology: one based on TETRA technology and the other on TETRAPOL technology. The two networks count on approx 250 base stations and several switches centres.
Main users of the two networks are Mossos d'Esquadra (Catalonia Regional Police) through a digital trunking network of TETRAPOL technology (NEXUS) and fire brigade, health service, civilian protection, environmental service through the TETRA network (AGORA).
Additionally Tradia and Abertis telecom group manage about 2500 sites all over Spain from which it is provided service to all major Broadcast channels nationally and locally in the different regions of Spain. Abertis Telecom is the main carrier for all the national TV channels, both in analogue and digital technology, and is also pioneer in all digital broadcast technologies (DAB, DVB-T, DVB-H,...) in Spain.
Vodafone provides an extensive range of mobile telecommunications services, including voice and data communications, in 42 countries (including 14 partner networks), reaching to approximately 450.9 million customers. The Group had over 165 million customers, excluding paging customers, calculated on a proportionate basis in accordance with the Company's percentage interest in these ventures. Vodafone provides these services with the help of approximately 60.000 employees.
Vodafone is committed with the development of future technologies as shows the €7500 million of capital expenditure in 3G networks throughout the 2005 financial year. Also, the Group spent €328 millions in Research and Development (R&D) activities during the same period.
Institut Eurecom was founded on November 4, 1991 by the Swiss Federal Institute of Technology of Lausanne (EPFL) and the Ecole Nationale Supérieure des Télécommunications (ENST) in Paris. Since 1995, Politecnico di Torino is also an academic partner. The Helsinki University of Technology joined Eurecom in 2001 as an additional academic partner.
Eurecom is a graduate-level research school that offers a 4-semester program in the area of Communication Systems and adheres to the ECTS credit system. About 100 students at master level are accepted each year from 8 European schools.
Moreover, 35 PhD students are presently preparing their thesis work at the Institute where teaching and research are undertaken in three Departments :
- The Corporate Communications Department, with a focus on network security, network management and agent technologies, protocols for high speed networks and Internet.
- The Multimedia Communications Department, with a focus on multimedia networking, Web and Internet technologies, automatic indexing of multimedia documents, speech recognition, video representation and video coding.
- The Mobile Communications Department, with a focus on digital signal processing for mobile communications, multi-user information theory, 3rd generation systems, wireless protocols, and mobile ad hoc networks.
Institut Eurecom is located in the Sophia Antipolis Technopole in the South of France. It is a GIE (Groupement d'Intérêt Economique), a consortium under French Law. Its industrial members are currently Swisscom, Hasler Stiftung, Thales Communications, CEGETEL, France Telecom, HITACHI Europe, Texas Instruments, STMicroelectronics and Bouygues Telecom. The Institute has an approximate budget of 7 million Euros of which one million are from research contracts. It has some 92 employees among which 63 are scientists (10 professors, 10 teaching and research assistants, 10 engineers, 35 PhD.students) whereas 29 constitute the Computers & Networks department and the administrative staff. Since its creation, the Institut Eurécom actively participates in several European framework projects.
Background in cooperative research: The Mobile Communications Department of EURECOM was involved in the FP5 IST program, as a major partner of the Moby Dick project (Mobility and Diffentiated Services in a Future IP Network). It is also actively involved in several industry/academia collaborative research projects in the framework of the French National RNRT (Réseau National de la Recherche en Télécommunications). These projects are mainly related to beyond-3G Cellular Mobile systems and their convergence with IPv6 networks. The department develops open-architecture multi-way real-time radio platforms (B3G, MIMO/OFDM and UWB) for use in publicly-funded research projects aiming at demonstrating innovations at all protocols layers (RF to applications). The B3G platforms are used in the ongoing FP6 projects E2R and Daidalos Integrated projects while the MIMO/OFDM platforms are being developed in the context of the WIDENS Specific Targeted Research Project. Eurecom is also a key member of the NEWCOM Network of Excellence.
11. European Commission Directorate General Joint Research Centre
The Joint Research Centre is a research based policy support organisation and an integral part of the European Commission. It is a Directorate General, providing the scientific advice and technical know-how to support EU policies. The status as a Commission service, guarantees JRC independence from private or national interests.
JRC institutes carry out extensive research of direct concern to European citizens and industry. Over the years, the JRC has developed special skills and unique tools to provide autonomous and Europe-wide expertise to improve understanding of the links between technology, the economy and society. JRC activities range from the assessment of safety standards for children's toys and improved biomaterials for hip implants to new technologies for recycling water and the use of satellite systems to monitor land use and deforestation.
The work is split between institutional research in support of Commission policymaking, direct support for specific Directorates-General (DGs) and competitive activities in strategic relationships with the scientific and business communities. The guideline is that of 'adding value' where appropriate, rather than competing directly with establishments in the EU Member States.
JRC structure is based on seven specialised Institutes, which employ about 2000 staff (Dec 2002) and use a budget of over 300 million Euro per year stemming from the European Commission's research budget and from competitive income.
12. Stichting Platform Mobile Messages
SPMM (Stichting Platform Mobile Messaging) is a not for profit The Netherlands based organisation, with the mission to do research, acceptance testing, development and exploration of Cell Broadcast messaging systems for Government early warning systems. Vodafone, Telfort and KPN have a seat in the board of directors of SPMM.
The research carried out covers the Operator Business Model for Cell Broadcast, multi Operator Cell Broadcast messaging management and handset user acceptance, for early warning systems.
Important research is carried out together with the University of Delft, The Netherlands, about user acceptance research and the impact of core messages in emergency situations via Cell Broadcasting technology by means of mobile telephones.
SPMM has specified a Multi Operator Warning System to be used by Governments. This has been developed, tested and installed in the Dutch Cell Broadcast early warning systems pilot, full nation wide running from the July 15, 2005. This is being used by multiple departments of the Dutch Government, in order to communicate within three minutes core Government emergency messages. The Multi Operator Warning System has been successfully interfaced with the proven LogicaCMG Cell Broadcast Systems, managed in operation by SPMM at Vodafone, Telfort and KPN.
SPMM has a liaison agreement with similar organisations as member of the CEASA international (www.ceasa-int.org) and is a member of the Cell Broadcast Forum for the international coordination of channel numbers and handset specifications.
13. Technische Universiteit Delft
The Safety Science Group is a research and education department of the Faculty of Technology, Policy and Management of the Delft University of Technology. It consists of 12 staff members and acts as a unique focal point in all Dutch Universities with respect to safety science. The group has a large network within the Netherlands and internationally with safety and risk related scientific institutions. The group develops fundamental and applied research in the fields of safety management, safe design and risk assessment. Its field of applications is brought and includes for example disaster management for various regional areas and large public buildings, transportation, industry and construction. Research projects for the EU-frame work programmes were participation in ADVISORS for assessment of new vehicle technologies, in EMBARC for maritime traffic management, in the I-RISK and ARAMIS project for managing risk control for major hazards installations. The Safety Science Group also conducts research for the Dutch government and companies. The Group is involved in two evaluation projects of citizens warning systems in The Netherlands one using short messenger system and one using cell broadcasting technology.
Teknillinen Korkeakoulu (TKK) (or Helsinki University of Technology) is the largest technical university in Finland. There are about one hundred laboratories in twelve departments and four separate research institutes. The focus of international research co-operation is in Europe. TKK has actively participated in EU framework programs, as well as several research projects under ESA, CERN, COST, and Eureka.
The Communications Laboratory (ComLab) has been active in the research projects focused on different aspects of communications. The main areas of research are system aspects of radio communication network, system integration of smart antennas, advanced technologies studies of physical layer of radio network and optical communications. ComLab had been involved in the European project MOSTRAIN focused on communication with high-speed trains and played an important role in the establishment of a collaborative research project with Stanford University and the University of California at Los Angeles, USA.
ComLab is participating in standardization activities at ITU and at ETSI and plays a key role in project MESA and EMTEL technical and organizational activities. ComLab is taking part in a number of international research projects such as IST WIDENS (www.widens.org) and DeHiGate (CELTIC) in the area of public safety communications contributing to user studies, system studies, dissemination and standardization activities. ComLab had been taking part in support of European user forums and dissemination activities in a number of ETSI projects. TKK will give its contributions in the current consortium to the areas of user studies, system studies, prototyping and dissemination of the results and standardisation.
15 British Association of Public-Safety Communications Officers Limited
BAPCO is an independent, user led, professional members forum to promote and influence excellence in the development and use of communications and information management systems in public safety, civil resilience and civil contingencies.
With liaison agreements with similar organisations in Australia, New Zealand, Canada, USA and Asia, BAPCO is an independent and autonomous part of a global network of public safety communications and information management system users dedicated to the regular exchange of information, ideas, experiences and best practices to influence the setting of standards, developing and improving systems and practices and global interoperability of technology and operational procedures.
16. European Emergency Number Association
The European Emergency Number Association (EENA) is a non-profit association established in Belgium. Its main objective is to promote the knowledge and efficient use of the 112, the single European Emergency Call Number, all over Europe, by acting as a discussion platform bringing together all the actors (organisations, emergency services, enterprises and individuals) involved with the development and implementation of the 112.
They mainly include:
- Political organisations (European Union, national governments, regional and local authorities, standardisation bodies)
- Private enterprises (equipment manufacturers, operators of fixed and mobile telephone network, insurance companies)
- Professional users (emergency medical services, rescue and fire fighting services, police, civil protection)
- Civil society and other associations (consumers, victims, volunteers, tourists, holiday organizers, automobile clubs)
- Informed individual citizens
EENA decided to be part of the CHORIST project because the project objectives will help giving the Citizens a better information in case of emergency or disaster on how to react and behave.
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