Design World

  • Home
  • Technologies
    • 3D CAD
    • Electronics • electrical
    • Fastening & Joining
    • Factory automation
    • Linear Motion
    • Motion Control
    • Test & Measurement
    • Sensors
    • Fluid power
  • Learn
    • Ebooks / Tech Tips
    • Engineering Week
    • Future of Design Engineering
    • MC² Motion Control Classrooms
    • Podcasts
    • Videos
    • Webinars
  • LEAP AWARDS
  • Leadership
    • 2022 Voting
    • 2021 Winners
  • Design Guide Library
  • Resources
    • 3D Cad Models
      • PARTsolutions
      • TraceParts
    • Digital Issues
      • Design World
      • EE World
    • Women in Engineering
  • Supplier Listings

Study Points to Potential Problems with In-Building FirstNet Service

By Andy Szal | April 30, 2018

Share

A newly released report urges equipment vendors, building owners and other stakeholders to ensure their systems will work properly within buildings as AT&T deploys the FirstNet public safety network.

The study from ABI Research, titled “Public Safety DAS in the FirstNet Era,” examined AT&T’s FirstNet buildout as it relates to Distributed Antenna Systems and in-building wireless service.

Analysts wrote that because more than 80 percent of wireless traffic either originates or ends indoors, a strong in-building signal will be needed to support first responder communications in emergency situations.

The study called for “early and frequent collaboration” with both AT&T and FirstNet, as well as with local governing jurisdictions, to ensure the network performs when required.

Analysts noted that AT&T has already issued more than 6,000 DAS systems and some 40,000 WiFi access points for first responders to deploy within buildings — but the system still faces significant hurdles, including the possibility of multiple jurisdictions with different standards for wireless system performance, ownership or funding.

“Although the FirstNet buildout has just been started by AT&T, the requirements for in-building coverage have received little attention so far,” ABI Research Director Nick Marshall said in a statement. “Overlooking FirstNet standards for in-building public safety may, in fact, compromise the effectiveness of this mission-critical service.”

The report also estimated that revenue for indoor wireless public safety systems, excluding signal sources, would grow at an average annual rate of nearly 16 percent and hit $1.8 billion by 2021. The North American market alone, already the largest for those systems, is expected to grow to 1.5 times its 2017 value.


Filed Under: Infrastructure

 

Related Articles Read More >

Do Sensors Make Infrastructure Safer?
Crawling Robots and Flying Drones May Help Missouri’s Bridges
Viasat and Facebook Collaborate to Expand Internet Connectivity in Rural Mexico
Smartphone-Based System to Monitor America’s Crumbling Infrastructure

DESIGN GUIDE LIBRARY

“motion

Enews Sign Up

Motion Control Classroom

Design World Digital Edition

cover

Browse the most current issue of Design World and back issues in an easy to use high quality format. Clip, share and download with the leading design engineering magazine today.

EDABoard the Forum for Electronics

Top global problem solving EE forum covering Microcontrollers, DSP, Networking, Analog and Digital Design, RF, Power Electronics, PCB Routing and much more

EDABoard: Forum for electronics

Sponsored Content

  • Global supply needs drive increased manufacturing footprint development
  • How to Increase Rotational Capacity for a Retaining Ring
  • Cordis high resolution electronic proportional pressure controls
  • WAGO’s custom designed interface wiring system making industrial applications easier
  • 10 Reasons to Specify Valve Manifolds
  • Case study: How a 3D-printed tool saved thousands of hours and dollars

Design World Podcasts

May 17, 2022
Another view on additive and the aerospace industry
See More >
Engineering Exchange

The Engineering Exchange is a global educational networking community for engineers.

Connect, share, and learn today »

Design World
  • Advertising
  • About us
  • Contact
  • Manage your Design World Subscription
  • Subscribe
  • Design World Digital Network
  • Engineering White Papers
  • LEAP AWARDS

Copyright © 2022 WTWH Media LLC. All Rights Reserved. The material on this site may not be reproduced, distributed, transmitted, cached or otherwise used, except with the prior written permission of WTWH Media
Privacy Policy | Advertising | About Us

Search Design World

  • Home
  • Technologies
    • 3D CAD
    • Electronics • electrical
    • Fastening & Joining
    • Factory automation
    • Linear Motion
    • Motion Control
    • Test & Measurement
    • Sensors
    • Fluid power
  • Learn
    • Ebooks / Tech Tips
    • Engineering Week
    • Future of Design Engineering
    • MC² Motion Control Classrooms
    • Podcasts
    • Videos
    • Webinars
  • LEAP AWARDS
  • Leadership
    • 2022 Voting
    • 2021 Winners
  • Design Guide Library
  • Resources
    • 3D Cad Models
      • PARTsolutions
      • TraceParts
    • Digital Issues
      • Design World
      • EE World
    • Women in Engineering
  • Supplier Listings