ShaMROCK – Secure professional Mobile Radio Over Commercial networKs

Project Information

ShaMROCK

Grant agreement ID: 734035

DOI

10.3030/734035

Project closed

EC signature date 19 November 2016

Start date 1 September 2016

End date 31 October 2018

Funded under

• Secure societies - Protecting freedom and security of Europe and its citizens

Total cost

€ 1 835 445,00

EU contribution

€ 1 284 811,50

Coordinated by

ESI MOBILE SOLUTIONS SL
Spain

Periodic Reporting for period 2 - ShaMROCK (ShaMROCK – Secure professional Mobile Radio Over Commercial networKs)

Reporting period: 2017-10-01 to 2018-10-31

Summary of the context and overall objectives of the project

Of absolute critical importance to the overall security of citizens, are the emergency services and the communication networks that they utilize. ShaMROCK has allowed to leverage the unique experience, skills and patented Push To Talk (PTT) technologies of Genaker in order to deliver the World ́s first broadband Professional Mobile Radio (PMR) system running over standard cellular networks with a full range of guaranteed communications. Such a system is just starting to be demanded by International Governments and by Critical Infrastructure Management Entities for usage by Emergency Services and Professionals to firstly, reduce costly dependency on dedicated networks, to secondly, increase communication resilience and cross-border management and thirdly, to support a new generation of point-of-use security and infrastructure protection applications.

Genaker is a European SME with a unique voice, video and data group communications cloud platform that thanks to the H2020 SME Instrument support has evolved to a Business and Mission Critical Push-to-Talk, Messaging and Video solution already being deployed in several big and demanding customers in Europe and other geographies.

This new product stands out thanks to its advanced prioritization, Quality-Of-Service engine and Multicast support, the only with such features already integrated with real customers.

Work performed from the beginning of the project to the end of the period covered by the report and main results achieved so far

The most tangible results at this stage are the prototypes branded as Business Critical PTT, already being piloted, and the Mission Critical PTT alpha, being finalised to be validated in our Pilot 3. Thus we have successfully secured three big pilots with three very relevant players with end users in our target markets. Two of them within our primary target geographies.

Progress beyond the state of the art and expected potential impact (including the socio-economic impact and the wider societal implications of the project so far)

In ShaMROCK Genaker is completing the unique prioritization engine and the fastest instant voice group communication while protecting customer investments by ensuring interoperability with developing standards.

1. Full range of Prioritization options: Capacity to communicate and send video & data even on Saturated Cells. Genaker’s Mission Critical PTT dynamically ensures the network routes the conversations and combines with direct termnal-to-terminal communication and automatic fallback to transportable cellular hotspot for example in a public mobile network blackout situation.

2. Combined coverage of the different networks the solution can use, e.g. variety of legacy Professional Mobile Radio Networks, 2G, WiFi, 3G, 4G… with different optimisations for each of them.

With this solution Genaker makes the fast broadband Push-to-Talk (including messaging and video) over public 4G networks become true and overpass the robustness and user experience of Professional Mobile Radios currently used by Emergency and Security users.


We continue to patent our new IPR, to deeply test in targeted stakeholder pilots and to finalise our go-to-market plan through direct Market and Technology watches. ShaMROCK Project will form a key milestone in Genaker ́s plans to execute this identified high-value business opportunity which has the clear capacity to greatly increase our sales, to capture further investment and to further drive our SME to the global security stage.

Genaker new logo: Business & Critical PTT

Ruggedized 4G Smartphone with Genaker PTT

Genaker App starting in a Tough Mobile from Bittium

Genaker PTT with ShaMROCK vs State of the Art PTToverCellular and TETRA