Reference14r2:Concept innovaphone Portable Platform

What is iPP? (innovaphone Portable Platform)

The iPP is a concept to demonstrate how a mobile communication solution based on the innovaphone system may look like. It provides the initial starting point to develop own concepts, ideas, solutions or products. The requirements & the area of use are influencing factors, there are many possibilities and options to have it as dynamically as possible!

In this picture you can see what this solution could look like, let's be creative and say: why have a Suitcase for that? We can even have a mobile solution built into a Car! As you can see you can do a lot with this Solution, and it also depends on your scenario, needs, use case and so on.

There are some things you have to consider, but I will get back to that later on.

Where can it be useful?

You can use the iPP as you desire. Here are some examples to show you where you might need to have an iPP:

• Secure communication system in disaster areas (e.g. Ahr Valley, Germany)
• Secure communication system at big events
• Secure communication system to reliably secure supply
• Secure communication system for critical infrastructures
• Secure communication system on a (big) construction site
• Do you have any more ideas?

The big advantage of the iPP is: you can use it nearly anywhere and design it specially for your needs and what you consider as important!

Configuration scenario

Depending on your needs and your infrastructure, you can have two scenarios to set up the iPP.

Stand-Alone iPP

• Autonomous communication solution without Master / Slave set-up
• Via internet connection
  • Own trunk line possible
  • Audio conferences with up to 100 internal participants (depending on your used Hardware). You can also have external participants depending on your used Hardware/Software!

Regarding external access: As a Stand-Alone iPP it might not be possible to have a fixed external IP-Address, depending on what kind of Data connection you use and what your ISP can offer. Although it would be possible to have DynDNS, this also relies on what kind of Hardware/Software you have deployed. Thus, it is dependent on these factors if you can have external access too.

Master / Slave iPP

• Communication solution with Master / Slave set-up
• Can also be operated as standalone if there is no internet connection available, for example
• Via internet connection
  • Connection to Master or additional Slave systems available (Let's say you have a huge area to cover, then you might need more than one System on the area)
  • Own and / or central trunk line, possible (you can keep the trunk redundant with central and also dedicated trunks)
  • Audio conferences with up to 100 internal and external participants

Regarding external access for the Slaves: For our Scenario we used a VPN Tunnel from the Slaves to the HQ (with a fixed IP-Address in our Data center), all DNS-Queries for the Slaves then points to the HQ where the Reverse-Proxy then routes the Traffic accordingly to the right System. BUT in this case you will need a HQ, keep in mind that external access will also be down if the HQ (or the connection to the HQ) should be down.

Use case scenario

To give you a better feeling on how to deploy the iPP I will give you a use case scenario:

• Imagine a flooding of a whole suburban city
• The flooding has nearly destroyed everything (Streets, Infrastructure, Cellular towers, Houses, Electricity...)
• With the iPP you have control over the whole area and cover the whole Crisis area

• Now Police, Ambulance, Firefighters, THW (Technisches Hilfswerk), volunteers and many others arrive at the spot
• With the iPP you can combine the communication between every Person there, this way everyone have the same source of information and is connected together
• You can have a connection to a Headquarter where you can ask for supplies or more help
• One site can request help from another site

• You can additionally add Maps as an App so that Users can orientate if they're not familiar with the area

• You can have emergency meetings

• It's possible to give status updates to the Headquarter or to another location

And these are only a few options you have to secure a stable and secure communication solution in such situation.

Things to have in consideration

As I mentioned before, a lot of things depends on the situation you want to cover and possibilities you have. There are still some Key-things that you have to take in account when deploying an iPP.

The two main points which needs to be covered are:

Power Supply

Of course, you will need electricity to have this System working, Sometimes you have Low-voltage-network on spot but what if not? Let's take a look at the options!

• As already mentioned, depending on the situation and use case you can use Low-voltage-network to get electricity (If available!)
• Another option can be via battery network with following charging options:
  • Solar
  • Wind energy
  • Generator (Diesel, gasoline, propane)

Data connection

Depending on if you want to have external connection too, you need a way for Data connection. In order for this too work, you have multiple options:

• Ethernet, if available you can use Ethernet on side but depending on the situation and availability it might not be available on side
• LTE/4G/5G Router
• Satellite Internet
• 450MHz Network (Available in Germany from 2025, especially designed for critical Infrastructure)

App Platform concept

To provide Apps globally and also dedicated, you can have several App Platforms in your scenario.

For example, let's take a look at some Apps:

Connect

With a global Connect App, that is hosted on the Master, you can share and gain information that are by interest for everyone.

• Give status updates
• Request supplies
• share important information around the whole area and to the HQ

you can also have another Connect App that is hosted on the App Platform of your iPP, this way only helpers/workers from your side will get all the information.

Recordings

When in a rush and you need supplies or help as soon as possible, you don't have time to wait for your colleague on the phone to write everything down.

The best option is to tell everything you need and hang up again, the colleague could listen to that recording and write down everything that was requested.

• Local Recordings
• Global Recordings
• See how the situation of the area is
• Relisten to recordings to keep track of the timeline of the crisis situation

Conferencing

Having Conferences with external and/or internals Members is also something you might want to have dedicated and also globally. Even if the connection to the Master is interrupted, you can still have internal conferences.

• Emergency Meetings
• Meetings on the condition of the area
• Meetings with family and friends for safety checks

Our scenario and configuration

In this Section I will get more into detail of our scenario.

For our Scenario we have a Master/Slave scenario. The whole System looks like this:

The Master is located in our Datacenter and each PBX in the Suitcases acts as Slave PBX.

This Suitcase consists of:

• 2 IP-DECT Antennas with 2 Handsets
• Charging station for the Handsets
• IP102
• IP112
• POE+ Switch
• Notebook

Drawers we use:

• 19 Inch 2HU drawer for the Devices
• Inlay 2U drawer
• 19 Inch 1HU drawer for the Notebook

Rack case:

• 19 Inch 6HU Rack case

For Data connection we have used:

• Satellite Internet
• LTE/4G Router

In summary we have 4 different iPPs prepared with different Hardware and looks, each iPP has its own App Platform with dedicated and also global Apps.

Each one of these iPPs has a different size and also different Hardware used. This will show you what is possible to have and how you could realize your concept:

Power consumption

This is only an example of how much Power one Suitcase might consume. For the Data connection we are using a Starlink mobile Antenna. The Power consumption will drop/rise depending on your chosen Data Connection.

iPP02

Because this is our biggest suitcase, it's also (obviously) the one which consumes the most Power:

• 120Wh

iPP03

• 40Wh

iPP04

• 70Wh