Telecom Lead India: Polaris Wireless, CommScope,
Ericsson, Nokia Siemens Networks and Creativity Software are pitching for
bagging around $500 million to $1 billion LBS (location based services) project
from Indian telecom operators.
Polaris Wireless, CommScope, Ericsson, and Creativity
Software have recently made individual presentations to the Telecom Engineering
Center (TEC) and trained TEC officials to clarify doubts on the deployment
process and the potential of LBS technologies to safe guard security issues.
After discussion with TEC, Department of
Telecommunications is expected to submit its final report and guidelines. DoT,
despite from opposition from telecom operators, is likely to urge the industry
to go ahead with the implementation.
Most of Indian telecom operators are concerned about the
huge cost for implementing LBS solutions to reduce India’s security concerns.
Operators typically are concerned with cost, ease of
deployment, time to market, scalability, and ability to attain the accuracy
levels set out in the DoT mandate.
The key differentiator for our solution is its ability
to accurately locate wireless devices without the addition of any hardware in
the network (like Triangulation or U-TODOA) or in the handset (like GPS). Our
solution is 100 percent software based. It has always been the policy of
Polaris Wireless to protect user location information behind the security of
the mobile operator’s wireless network. Our solution does not now, and has
never, enabled location information to be retained within the mobile device,
where it is subject to hacking and other potential compromise,” said Srinivas
Varadarajan, vice president Sales and Business Development Asia, Polaris
Wireless.
The core technology is based on RF Pattern Matching
(RFPM) which has been standardized at 3GPP.The Polaris Wireless solution is
currently supported in 2G GSM and 3G UMTS air interfaces for control plane and
user plane (SUPL) implementations using standard interfaces. For 4G LTE, the
Polaris Wireless solution is supported in both user and control planes.
The Polaris Wireless solution interoperates with
additional air interfaces such as Wi-Fi and WiMAX and is able to scale with
network demand to accurately perform up to thousands of location transactions
per second. In summary, the Polaris Wireless solution operates with any telecom
infrastructure in India and any device, including the oldest legacy 2G handsets
and the most recent 4G devices.
Polaris Wireless location solutions are scalable and
designed to evolve with the wireless network, ensuring operators that they will
not outgrow their investment. The core technology is based on RF Pattern
Matching (RFPM) which has been standardized at 3GPP. The Polaris Wireless
solution is currently supported in 2G GSM and 3G UMTS air interfaces for
control plane and user plane (SUPL) implementations using standard interfaces.
For 4G LTE, the Polaris Wireless solution is supported in both user and control
planes. The Polaris Wireless solution interoperates with additional air
interfaces such as WiFi and WiMAX and is able to scale with network demand to
accurately perform up to thousands of location transactions per second. The
Polaris Wireless solution operates with any device, including the oldest legacy
2G handsets and the most recent 4G devices.
The solution, according Polaris Wireless’ Varadarajan,
can be implemented in 5-6 months.
Polaris Wireless offers software-based wireless location
solution for operators, government agencies, and application providers. In
blind trials in the challenging Bangalore environment, the Polaris Wireless
solution located over 70 percent of calls within 50 meters and over 90 percent
of calls within 100 meters (the DoT mandate is 30 percent and 60 percent
respectively).
Polaris Wireless software-based wireless location
solution is deployed on a standard computer server (in-network or hosted) and
requires no hardware additions to the base stations, in contrast with other
network-based technologies such as U-TDOA (uplink time-difference-of-arrival),
which requires new radio hardware. Thus, the initial investment in the Polaris Wireless
solution is below the cost of a U-TDOA solution for a comparably-sized network.
