3020 LifeX to Replace Existing ICCS 3020

Frequentis is to supply its future-oriented 3020 LifeX multimedia communication and collaboration control-room platform to the Central Police Directorate of Lower Saxony, the company announced on 7 March.

Implementation across eight control centres, one alternate control centre and one test system, will take place in three phases. The project will establish a state-wide standard for the control centre communication system within an IP-based system environment in Lower Saxony. “Over the course of modernising the police and cooperative control centres in Lower Saxony, one of the main requirements […] was updating the communication system as an essential technical component. Against the background of many years of good experience with the predecessor system, Frequentis ICCS 3020, in the state, [and] the special challenges with regard to a long-term migration phase from the old to the new system, as well as the fulfilment of future multimedia communication requirements, we opted for the Frequentis successor system, 3020 LifeX,” explained Marc Stothfang, Project Lead, Operations Control System Lower Saxony (ELS NI). “With this, Lower Saxony has a reliable communication system with almost identical and extensive functional features at its disposal at all times, even during parallel operation, which provides the control centres with maximum technical performance, especially in view of the current security situation.”

The existing Frequentis Integrated Command and Control Solution (ICCS 3020), in operation for over a decade, will be replaced by the next generation of Frequentis communication systems. It will also realise the operational system interconnection of the control centres and enable interaction in case of overload or failure. “The decision […] to choose the Frequentis state-of-the-art LifeX multimedia communication system […] confirms the innovative approach we have taken during the development. The long-standing partnership between the State of Lower Saxony and Frequentis will be continued, and together we will provide the control centre operations with further new functions to meet future requirements,” added Robert Nitsch, Frequentis’ VP Public Safety.