ETSI TS 170 001 V3.3.1 (2008-03)

ETSI TS 170 001 V3.3.1 (2008-03)
Technical Specification


Project MESA;
Service Specification Group - Services and Applications;
Statement of Requirements (SoR)

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Reference
RTS/MESA-SA0070001v331
Keywords
digital, emergency, interoperability, PMR,
protection, radio, safety, SAR, satellite, security
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Contents
Intellectual Property Rights.7
Foreword.7
Introduction .8
1 Scope.10
2 References.10
2.1 Normative references.10
2.2 Informative references.10
3 Abbreviations.10
4 Executive Summary.12
5 Project MESA SoR.18
5.1 Objectives.18
5.2 Scope of requirements .18
5.3 User requirements.19
5.4 Use of existing protocols.19
5.5 Evolving specifications and standards.19
5.6 Use of open architectures .19
5.7 Mobile computer telecommunications system .19
5.8 Local, regional and national interoperability.19
5.9 Interoperability between MESA user devices .20
5.10 In building and portable service .20
5.11 Operational compromises.20
5.12 Compliant with the need of the participating nations.20
5.13 Pre-testing technology proposals.20
5.13a Type approval and interoperability testing.20
5.14 Frequency neutral technology .20
5.15 Improvements in spectrum efficiencies.20
5.16 Life-cycle procurements.20
5.17 Economical and ergonomically friendly design .21
5.18 Environmentally safe.21
5.18a Regional safety standards.21
5.19 Adequate interference protection.21
5.20 Migration.21
5.21 Consistent with existing standards .21
5.22 Related documents, standards, policies or requirements .22
5.23 Regulatory compliance.22
5.24 Compliance with national and international rules, regulations and standards.22
5.25 Compatible for multiple international standards .22
5.26 Publication of standards and specifications.22
5.27 Interface requirements.22
5.28 Interface protocol requirements.22
5.29 Transparent interfaces.22
5.30 Service platform.23
5.31 Two-way communication.23
5.32 Traffic distribution.23
5.33 Dynamic remote partitioning.23
5.34 Dynamic transfer rates and bandwidth allocation .23
5.35 Multiple levels of availability of service .23
5.36 Priority services.23
5.37 Simultaneous network or system access.23
5.38 Network pre-emption.23
5.39 First-In, first-Out.24
5.40 System and/or network transaction audit trail .24
5.41 Ability to provide statistical reports .24
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5.42 Agency-by-agency reports.24
5.43 MESA network component identification.24
5.44 Security requirements.24
5.45 Automated information requirements.24
5.46 Blocking unauthorized access .24
5.47 Over-the-air-rekeying (OTAR).24
5.48 High-speed, error-free service .25
5.49 End-to-end transmit time.25
5.50 Transparent transfer.25
5.51 Degradation and redundancy.25
5.52 Duty cycle requirements.25
5.53 Data to be transported.25
5.54 Network and data base interconnectivity.26
5.55 Network transmission requirements .26
5.56 Location Determination.26
5.57 Delayed transmission and remote stops.26
5.58 Dynamic updating of data fields.27
Annex A (informative): National and international public service and public safety programs,
standards, specifications and requirements .28
A.1 Implementation of interoperable technologies .28
A.2 Impact of PSWAC's four general requirements on Project MESA.28
A.3 Project MESA use of PSWAC recommendations.28
A.4 Impact of additional officers in the field.28
A.5 Law enforcement and criminal justice data systems .29
A.6 Prisons and correctional institutions.29
A.7 Use of Project MESA specifications and standards in deployment of Intelligent Transport System
(ITS) communications and other public safety related networks and systems.29
A.8 Use of GLS for vehicle and personnel tracking, security, and inventory control .30
A.9 Impact of recent major events on Project MESA SoR.31
A.10 Major incident operational dynamics .31
A.11 Institutional monitoring.31
A.12 Environmental monitoring.31
A.13 Administrative control of transportation and other related public safety telemetry.31
A.14 The use of global location system in Project MESA.33
A.15 Office of the future and general administrative applications .33
A.16 Network or system messaging.33
A.17 Emergency or distress signals .34
A.18 Corrections and probation officers and staff's use of full motion video.34
A.19 Major incident management and control video.34
A.20 Airborne command and control video.34
A.21 Normal incident command and control video .34
A.22 Traffic surveillance video.34
A.23 Surveillance and monitoring .34
A.24 Law enforcement video applications.35
A.25 Disaster relief video applications .35
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A.26 Land management and wildfire control applications for full motion video.35
A.27 Emergency medical services video applications .35
A.28 The use of robotics in a hazardous materials environment .35
A.29 Lifeguard and water rescue applications for robotics.36
A.30 Search and rescue applications of robotics.36
A.30.1 Robotics and video/imagery applications in search and rescue.36
A.30.2 Transmission of still photos for public safety applications .36
A.30.3 General encryption requirements .36
A.30.4 Specific and/or unique requirements of the United States Government.36
Annex B (informative): Known North American Federal, state and country requirements .39
Annex C (informative): Law enforcement scenario - Court House Murder.40
Annex D (informative): Law enforcement Scenario - U.S. State and Urban Police Response to
Earthquake Damage.42
Annex E (normative): Criminal Justice providers.44
Annex F (normative): Automated criminal history and law enforcement records systems
and providers .45
Annex G (normative): Emergency management or disaster recovery agencies .46
Annex H (normative): Special Operations needs.47
Annex I (normative): Health Services.48
I.1 Emergency Medical Services (EMS) .48
I.2 Disaster Medicine.48
Annex J (normative): Fire Services.49
Annex K (normative): Coast Guard Services (and related public safety functions).52
Annex L (normative): Search and Rescue Activities .53
L.1 Search Activities.53
L.2 Rescue Activities.53
Annex M (normative): Airport Security (and related public safety functions).54
Annex N (normative): Humanitarian Assistance .55
Annex O (normative): Hazardous Materials (HAZMAT) and related public safety services.56
O.1 Coordination and Management.56
O.2 Analysis and Material Classification.56
O.3 Handling.56
O.4 Cleanup and Rectification .56
Annex P (normative): Correctional institutions.57
P.1 Correctional enforcement and probation officers.57
Annex Q (normative): Planning precepts for responding to large public safety events or
emergencies.58
Annex R (normative): General governmental and/or government administration needs.59
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Annex S (normative): Land and natural resource management.60
Annex T (normative): Transportation's organizational mandates and missions.61
Annex U (normative): Intelligent Transport Systems (ITS) .62
Annex V (normative): The use of technologies and the compatibility requirement for the
various applications .63
V.1 Data to be transported.63
V.2 General.63
V.3 Electronic messaging.63
V.4 Encryption.65
V.5 Office of the future.65
V.6 Transparent network and system access.66
V.7 ITS System Requirements.66
V.8 Transmission of complex files .67
V.9 System integrations and interoperability.68
V.10 Transmission of user and patient monitoring telemeter .68
V.11 Other public safety telemetry applications.68
V.12 Transmission of geographical location data.69
V.13 ITS video requirements .69
V.14 Transmission of full-motion video.70
V.15 Robotics with full-motion video.70
V.16 Transmission of still-photographs and images .71
Annex W (normative): UK Highways Agency - Intelligent Transport Systems (ITS) .72
W.1 Objectives.72
W.2 The English strategic road network.72
W.3 Highways Agency. Transportation's organizational mandates and missions.72
W.4 Intelligent Transport Systems.72
W.5 ITS System Requirements.73
W.6 ITS video requirements .74
W.7 Transmission of full-motion video.74
W.8 Transmission of still-photographs and images .75
Annex X (informative): Bibliography.76
History .77

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Intellectual Property Rights
Project MESA is a collaborative activity who's Organizational Partners (OPs) as of the date of this document are the
European Telecommunications Standards Institute (ETSI) and the Telecommunications Industry Association (TIA). It is
not a legal entity.
MESA's Technical Working Procedures ("Procedures") provide that Individual Members of MESA are bound by the
IPR Policy of their respective OPs. The Procedures further provide that Individual Members should declare at the
earliest opportunity any IPRs that they believe to be essential or potentially essential to any work ongoing within
MESA.
Under the Procedures, the MESA Secretariat is required to maintain a register of IPR declarations relative to MESA,
received by the OPs.
Information concerning declarations of IPR relative to MESA which have been received from OPs and which have been
communicated to the MESA Secretariat are available and can be found as follows:
1. As to the MESA Secretariat: www.projectmesa.org or mesa@projectmesa.org;
2. As to ETSI: http://webapp.etsi.org/IPR/;
3. As to TIA: ipr@tiaonline.org.
The use or practice of the contents of this document may involve the use of IPRs including, but not limited to, pending
or issued patents, or copyrights. Pursuant to their respective policies, none of ETSI, TIA or MESA makes any search or
investigation for IPRs of any nature. ETSI, TIA and MESA, and each of them, takes no position with reference to, and
disclaims any obligation to investigate or inquire into, the scope or validity of any claims of IPR which are contained in
declarations or otherwise communicated to them, or any of them.
The ETSI IPR Policy is available on the ETSI web server (http://www.etsi.org/legal/) and the TIA IPR Policy is
available on the TIA web server (http://www.tiaonline.org) as part of the TIA Engineering Manual.
Foreword
This Technical Specification (TS) has been produced by Public Safety Partnership Project (MESA).
The contents of the present document are subject to continuing work within the Specification Group (SG) and may
change following formal SG approval. Should the SG modify the contents of the present document, it will be
re-released by the SG with an identifying change of release date and an increase in version number as follows:
Version x.y.z where:
x the first digit:
1 presented to SG for information;
2 presented to SG for approval;
3 or greater indicates SG approved document under change control.
y the second digit is incremented for all changes of substance, i.e. technical enhancements, corrections,
updates, etc.
z the third digit is incremented when editorial only changes have been incorporated in the document.
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The present document includes a general outline of the public safety community's technological needs for the transport
and distribution of rate-intensive data, digital video, infrared video and digital voice for both service-specific and
general applications. The present document was developed as part o
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