Success story

Cell-network video streaming solution used in undisclosed German Police Helicopters

team2technologies x KMT x VITEC

In a recent project, an undisclosed German Police Helicopter Squadron needed a rugged and airworthy certifiable fallback solution for their legacy DVB-T based video downlinks. The legacy video downlink solution suffers from availability in rural landscapes and time-demanding installation of a receiving vehicle availability on ground.

The onboard video cameras are connected to a rugged VITEC encoder for generating network video transport streams. Those streams are transported and encrypted by the team2applications MLX100 cell/satcom router over attached cell antennas. The encrypted data are transmitted via any mobile network provider to a field-proven video-management-system. All videos captured for situational awareness, patrolling information, and intelligence-gathering missions aboard the state-of-the-art Airbus EC135 Helicopters.

All used products needed to be available commercially off-the-shelf, but they needed the ability to encode video in a format that could be distributed on the IP-based KMT Tracer video management system with all relevant information.

Christoph Eder

General Manager, team2applications GmbH

Winning this contract demonstrates the team2’s position as a leading technology provider of mobile cell-based IP video streaming technologies and its successful strategy in designing and delivering high-quality, reliable and IT-security enabled networking and tactical video solutions that meet the most stringent specifications of governmental surveillance markets. The project required a rugged, reliable, and versatile end-to-end solution, of which the MGW Pico+ TOUGH was the perfect solution. It provides every capability for processing and distributing ISR or situational awareness video generated by surveillance helicopters.

How the team2tech-solution overcame the Challenges and the results

team2technologies and its cooperation partner KMT GmbH built the solution in collaboration with VITEC, the worldwide leader in advanced video encoding and streaming solutions. Together the solution was able to meet all the requirements of the customer’s request.

The solution can be tailored to individual customer requirements …

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