Motorola MOTOTRBO is a versatile digital system of portable and mobile radios, repeaters and accessories that delivers increased capacity and integrated voice and data communication. Now with the Capacity Plus single-site trunking solution, you can expand your communication capacity to enable up to 1200 radio users to share voice and data communication on the same system. In addition, the IP Site Connect solution gives you the ability to extend your communication reach further by connecting multiple locations, creating continuous wide area coverage or enhancing single site coverage.

 

Motorola Capacity Plus

Single-site digital trunking system cost-effectively expands communication systems and provides reliable digital technology.

MOTOTRBO Capacity Plus is a scalable, cost-effective solution for MOTOTRBO conventional systems that provides reliable digital technology combined with the many benefits of traditional trunking systems to enable MOTOTRBO radio users to share both voice and data communications on the same digital system without having to add new frequencies. This intelligent software solution enables users to maximize the full capacity of a MOTOTRBO system and quickly transmit business-critical information while eliminating the need to purchase additional infrastructure, which means lower equipment costs for users

Capacity Plus delivers five times the capacity of an analogue conventional system and up to three times the capacity of an analogue trunking system. It also delivers twice the capacity of a MOTOTRBO digital conventional system. Designed to be flexible to meet a user’s communication needs, Capacity Plus supports voice communication, data communication or a combination of both. The solution also features the Repeater Diagnostic and Control application, enabling users to monitor and mange their system remotely. In addition, it offers system-wide calling capability so users can communicate with all personnel at once.

As a single-site trunking communication solution, Capacity Plus is ideal for resorts, hotels, hospitals, warehouses, manufacturing plants and other medium to large single-site facilities. It allows users to quickly and efficiently share a large amount of business-critical voice and data communication, resulting in increased productivity for businesses.

 

Expand your coverage, enhance your two-way communication.

MOTOTRBO's IP Site Connect enables you to expand the coverage of your two-way radio communication system. By utilizing this feature, you can extend the voice and data communication reach of your workforce, even across geographically dispersed locations on different frequency bands and with no monthly service fees. Whether you need to communicate among geographically dispersed locations, automatically roam from one coverage area to another with no manual intervention or on a single site containing physical barriers, IP Site Connect enables you to communicate and share data—resulting in improved customer service and increased productivity for your business.

 

Longer battery life and greater power efficiency

One of the biggest challenges with mobile devices has always been battery life. In the past, there have been limited options for increasing the talk time on a single battery charge. Two-slot TDMA, however, offers a good way forward. Since an individual call uses only one of the two timeslots, it requires only half of the transmitter’s capacity. The transmitter is idle half of the time — that is, whenever it’s the unused timeslot’s “turn”.
For example, in a typical duty cycle of 5 percent transmit, 5 percent receive, and 90 percent idle, the transmit time accounts for a high proportion of the drain on the radio’s battery. By cutting the effective transmit time in half, two-slot TDMA can enable up to 40 percent improvement in talk time in comparison with analogue radios. (One manufacturer’s published product literature gives a talk time of 9 hours operation for analogue mode but 13 hours for digital mode on the same radio). With overall battery consumption per call dramatically reduced longer usage time in the field between recharges is enabled. DMR digital devices can also include sleep and power-management technologies that increase battery life even further.

Even though many factors affect power consumption in an individual device, comparing published battery life figures for widely marketed DMR and FDMA digital radios shows the benefit of the TDMA approach over FDMA. For each hour of usage the TDMA radios show between 19% and 34% less battery capacity is required than for the FDMA models.
Apart from the environmental reasons for not wasting energy, choosing a technology with lower energy use gives more flexibility in the future because as communications needs grow for users (for example greater data requirements) more battery capacity is needed and it is better to bet on the technology which it is inherently more efficient and therefore has more room to play with. As discussed above, DMR infrastructure is also simpler than that required for FDMA systems. This means that the energy requirements to run a site are lower for TDMA than for FDMA These power efficient features give DMR users a leaner and greener radio network as well as one with the benefit of long battery life on the radios themselves. See the product range >>

DMR Tier III covers trunking operation in frequency bands 66-960MHz. The Tier III standard specifies two-slot TDMA in 12.5kHz channels. Tier III supports voice and short messaging handling similar to MPT-1327 with built-in 128 character status messaging and short messaging with up to 288 bits of data in a variety of formats. It also supports packet data service in a variety of formats, including support for IPv4 and IPv6.