Technical benefits
Working with Tait offers considerable technical benefits, including:
- Reliability
- Resilience
- Legacy Systems
- Innovation
- Turn-key Solutions
- Technology Choice
- Future-proofing
Reliability
Across a wide customer range, Tait solutions are renowned for their reliability. In a world where health and safety concerns are now paramount, ensuring that drivers and controllers can communicate at all times is crucial and using a truly reliable Tait solution is a key factor in achieving this. Configurable emergency options, covert alarms, priority protocols, AVL and instant voice communications add up to safer passengers and drivers.
Reliability factors include:
- Testing beyond tough military standards (MIL-STD810F)
- Mobiles and portables rated at IP54 and IP67 respectively
- Conservative power rating
Resilience
TaitNet systems are be designed to offer outstanding resilience giving piece of mind. Natural disasters and terrorist incidents are part of a transport providers' contingency planning. Tait has delivered transport systems that have stringent availability KPI’s built into the customer requirements.
Resilience factors include:
- Fully-redundant system architecture
- Redundant back-haul options
- Graceful degradation
- Guaranteed performance KPI’s
Legacy Systems
Tait has a track record of providing solutions to customers who need to manage an extended migration from legacy systems that need to be maintained while a new system is specified and deployed.
Legacy systems migration includes:
- Building custom legacy replacement terminals
- Maintaining legacy infrastructures
- Migration planning and management
Turn-key Solutions
Often Tait customers ask for more than a communication system. We have supplied complete turn-key solutions that combine a number of technologies and services to meet a customer's specific requirements.
Turn-key solutions include:
- RF design and verification
- Interface design
- Product design and customization
- Site and services management
- Project management
- Support 24/7
Innovation
By working with operators and integrators Tait has identified specific solutions that are required by the transport industry. These were added to a standard system to provide the levels performance and functionality a modern transport system requires.
Innovations included:
- High speed TDMA polling for AVL giving a world-class performance of 900 polls/min
- Remote programming and firmware updates for bus radios
- Hybrid radio options to combine GSM/GPRS services with a standard radio
- Data broadcast for passenger information signs
- Traffic Signal Priority functions incorporated into the bus radio
- Sign clear-down functionality option for the bus radio
Technology Choice
Tait recognises that many of its transport customers work in different regions of the world. Regions have different regulatory requirements which sometimes affect technology choices. Tait manufactures a range of technologies that are suitable around the globe.
Choice includes:
- Conventional PMR/LMR systems
- MPT1327 trunked radio systems
- P25 conventional, trunked and simulcast systems
- DMR conventional, trunked and simulcast systems
Future-proofing
Tait continues to closely monitor developments in the public transport sector. Work is ongoing to address future requirements in its solutions. This helps to safeguard investment across the lifetime of the solution. Tait stays abreast with future developments through:
- As members of industry bodies around the world
- Consultation with regulators
- Membership communications standards committees
- Involvement with advanced research facilities
