First Homeland Security WİMAX Application(MOBESE) in Turkey

Developments, studies and researches about WİMAX technologies are continuing as you can download the latest report here in Weekly Clip Report of Wimax Forum.

What I would like to remind today is about latest advances in city-wide surveillance & security applications (MOBESE – Homeland Security) provided by the police authorities. As we remember, in 2005, first MOBESE system was implemented in Istanbul using GPRS infrastructure. But in 3 years, MOBESE system couldn’t have been expanded to other cities. It has been discussed that there were faults about the usage of technology and also some political conflicts.

However, this year, there has been improvements in MOBESE system not nationally but locally in small towns of Turkey. First in Kütahya, and then in Kırıkkale, Samsun and Konya. In those cities, first Wimax based MOBESE systems have been installed.

The first installation was successfully managed by Global Forte, Redline Communications’ certified integration partner in Turkey. You can view Redline’s RedMAX WİMAX technical solution report in Kütahya here.

With this non-line-of-site solution, the Police in Kütahya will have better video surveillance quality comparing with wired solutions. Another advantage is that there will be minimized costs of system broadening. Also, operating costs will be mostly cut with WİMAX technology.

In my next post, I would like to write about government-grade wireless and mobile solutions in the world and possible adaptations to Turkish institutions. (You can find a short copy of Nortel solutions here) I wanted some documents and papers from governmental institutions and some companies, hopefully they will provide some useful info to write about this topic.