Public Safety BDA DAS Systems for enhancement

Does your building need a public safety DAS or BDA system in order to get a occupancy permit?

Many local and state regulations now mandate public safety coverage inside buildings as a pre requsite for certificates of occupancy. Our team of signal experts are familiar with regulations across the country, and can perform grid testing to verify existing public safety signal conditions. Based on those results, we can design and install a public safety BDA to provide coverage and ensure your building meets local jurisdiction standards and operating protocols.

Get in touch with our signal experts for a free estimate today.

Our process:

1. Initial estimate:
   We’ll put together an initial estimate based on your building information.
2. RF and construction site survey:
   If you’d like to move ahead, our signal experts will visit the site and perform a “grid test” to verify existing signal levels.
3. Installation and performance verification:
   Our OSHA and FCC-certified engineers will finalize the system design, and schedule a time to come and install, commission and test your system.

Over a decade of experience

Tri-Electronics has been configuring and installing signal coverage enhancement systems for over a decade. We are experts in building coverage.  We’ll use that knowledge to make sure that your project is done right the first time.

Our NFPA compliant, FCC-certified engineers work with the industry standard  software to design public safety solutions that use channelized “Class A” or broadband BDA(S)and both passive and active (fiber optic) designs across the VHF, UHF and 700/800 MHz bands.

We have install typically in the Midwest:  Chicago, Detriot, Indianapolis, Cleveland, Springfield, Kankakee, South Bend, etc.

We offer Cellular Enhancement / Public Safety from the following:

Powerwave
GWave
Spotwave
Harris
Commscope
Corning
Wilson
WeBoost
SureCall

We offer systems that work on Cellular and the following public safety systems:  Lake County Indiana 700Mhz, Starcom, Hoosier Safety, and other various 700Mhz public safety systems

Services Performed:

Sweep Testing
PIM Testing
OTDR Testing
Site Survey
RF Engineering Design
Commissioning
Carrier Coordination

5 Components Of Active Distributed Antenna Systems:

1. Signal Sources.As powerful as an active DAS is, the system itself is incapable of producing a standalone signal. These signals are fed from sources such as a service provider feed, Node-Bs, and the modern favorite – small cells. These signal sources reside in the head-end equipment room. Multiple service providers can provide their respective signal feed making it a multi-carrier active distributed antenna system. Only major service providers can provide the feed such as AT&T Wireless, Verizon Wireless, Sprint, T-Mobile, etc. in USA. MVNO’s or Mobile Virtual Network Operators would not provide such a signal feed themselves – They would need permission from the main service carriers such as those mentioned above. In Canada, those would be Rogers Wireless network companies, Telus Mobility network companies, Bell Mobility network companies and Freedom Mobile network companies, etc.
2. POI Tray.Stationed between the signal sources and the head-end unit, the POI tray combines the RF signals from diverse RF sources before it is delivered to the head-end equipment. These signals differ in nature and their abrupt and direct combination at the head-end unit can result in diversity imbalance. Of course, the same can also be achieved by using standalone hybrid combiners, which is the traditional way. But the POI does more.The downlink signal from RF sources is usually powered at 40 W which is much higher than the average head-end unit can handle. The POI tray configurations attenuate these downlink signals before they are delivered to the head-end unit, thereby preventing excessive power-loss and heating.
3. Head-End Unit.In addition to the signal sources, the head-end equipment room houses the head-end unit. On one side, band-specific units called RF modules connect the head-end unit to corresponding uplink and downlink port-pairs on the POI via coaxial cables. These RF modules provide further signal filtration and amplification based on the signal frequencies. Similarly, a series of uplink-downlink port pairs, one for each radio unit, are present on the other end to facilitate zone-wise signal distribution.Needless to say, the head-end equipment room houses some of the most critical components of an Active DAS. Not only should it be large enough to house the electronic components, it should also be well-equipped to handle their excessive heating and impart cooling thereafter.
4. Radio Units.Active DAS radio units receive signals from the head-end unit, segregate them based on frequencies, amplify them, and then transmit them to the nearby regions through antennas. These antennas is either mounted on the top of the radio-unit directly or connected to an RF-port. The reverse of this process is carried out in uplink direction. Depending on the transmission power and number of different frequencies supported, different types of radio units are deployed in an active DAS. Radio units are powered by AC or DC supply.
5. Fiber Optic Cables.Distributed antenna systems cannot be complete without connecting all components with fiber-optic cables. Thin, flexible, and light-weight, fiber optic cables are perfect for an Active DAS. They don’t take up much space and can easily dwell in even the smallest nooks and crannies. Since the optic signal attenuation in fiber optic cables is low, it grants the freedom to place radio units at a considerable distance from the head-end unit without causing signal loss or loss of signal Gain achieved from signal sources such as a service carrier feed. Depending on the type of signal to be transmitted, Single-Mode (SM) or Multi-Mode (MM) fiber optic cables can be used.
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