Mobile Systems


Mobile Systems

Communication and information exchange can be life saving: Especially in the scope of international cooperative efforts and crisis deployments of emergency management, military, police and aid organizations. Here, timely communication and cooperation are decisive. Essential infrastructure is normally lacking in crisis areas. That’s why it is even more important that management systems or individual management modules can be transported easily and regularly by any means of transport and then easily taken into operation.

The BAKO solution enables work in a normal computer environment anywhere, in every climate and even under the worst environmental conditions; it offers interfaces to and from the standard networks WAN, LAN, ISDN and SATCOM. Core functions for a mobile system, e.g.:

  • From standard office applications to planning and communication applications
  • With IT security, scalability, availability, transportability, stability and maintainability
  • Allow parallel work in several information areas with different security domains


THE IDEA:

Efficient, universal and user-friendly

Multiple usage and combination possibilities of mobile systems allow to act in a timely and proper fashion “in theatre”.

  • An advanced unit can be equipped with a mobile communication- and control module (for example, modularly built into a 19” portable housing) in a vehicle, aircraft or helicopter and clarify the situation on site or prepare for deployment of a larger unit.
  • A small unit can carry a “communication and data processing device” in a vehicle cabin or container which remain completely mobile and do not have to rely on other transport methods.
  • For larger and longer deployments, the establishment of a command center offers optimal possibilities: As an individual container with connected sub-units or as ahigh-availability system with two redundant systems and the connection of sub-units in a larger area to cover large geographic areas.

For larger user groups and a lack of infrastructure on site, it is possible to have the user stations already build in an expandable 20’ container, this setup can be used to start working immediately. All system levels can be designed for operation with various IT networks and security levels. This eases the cooperation of national and international aid societies, police and military allowing the deployment to be coordinated with the highest efficiency.

THE SOLUTION:

Example of portably designed 19” modules

The performance of a command computer information system (C-CIS) or a mobile mission support system is highly dependant on the protection of the IT components during storage and transport as well as on the ambient conditions during operation. High performance standard products or commercial off the shelf (COTS) products are not able to offer the necessary protection against these conditions. The BAKO solution uses an aluminum transit case (ATC) for transport and operation manufactured by the leading 19” housing manufacturer EDAK to fulfill all ambient requirements for reliable operation of the equipment on a mission. The 19” portable housing is tested for transport, storage and operation and is internationally certified. It offers excellent reliability combined with high stability, low weight and high corrosion resistance. The degree of protection is determined by the relative specifications (for example, as described in MIL STD-810-F) and the sensitivity of the components themselves.

The ATCs are manufactured from corrosion-resistant special aluminum alloy and offer a high degree of mechanical stability as well as a specified EMC protection, shock and vibration damper. Shock mounting on a natural rubber base permits high payload, individual adjust¬ment of geometry and shock absorption in all three dimensions. The housing, together with our certified air conditioning solutions, fulfills the requirements of the STANAG 2895, climate zones A1, A2, A3, B1, B2, CO, C1 to an altitude of 3000 meters above sea level for the integrated IT components for the operation and transport by truck, train, aircraft and helicopter (including CH53 and NH90) according to MIL-STD 810 F. In addition to the tests performed on housings using load dummies to simulate the integrated hardware, tests have also been carried out at various laboratories incl. the German TUEV (Mannheim), Swiss Army, German Army labs at Greding, Meppen (FulnfoSysSK - CCIS) and Trier (FHQ150: 20ft container for transportation via truck and rail) and with a wide variety of built-in IT "in-vivo" with excellent results.

The knowledge gained through those tests over the past five years, reveals that commonly used COTS products are exceeding the warranties given by their manufacturers both in terms of temperature and shock/vibration. Test results have been used to refine system design as well as assist in the selection of suppliers to assure a high level of performance reliability. Along with the production of systems in highly portable transit cases, BAKO also has certified experience and knowledge with the same high performance in the design engineering and integration of systems in containers and vehicle cabins.

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