A new digital communications system recently deployed at Lyon Saint Exupéry Airport, France, includes an indoor monitoring and location system from Sepura. 

Launched at the TETRA World Congress 2012 in May, STProtect works with the higher-specification models of the Sepura STP8000 and STP9000 series of hand-held radios to provide a complete, built-in communications and location system. 

STProtect is targeted at organizations which require the multiple benefits of a TETRA radio system, but also face the challenge of having to monitor and locate staff indoors. It offers the ability to locate the position of every STProtect-enabled TETRA radio in use, to improve the management and safety of resources. 

In addition to its core function of enabling operatives, particularly lone workers, to be located quickly and easily in an emergency, STProtect enables organizations to control access to certain areas of sites, monitor the location and movement of all deployed radios, and to define set routes and checkpoints for workers. 

Guy-Franck Nakach, from Sepura, commented: “STProtect is particularly valuable to organizations such as airports, prisons, industrial sites, shopping centres and stadia. As the only dedicated TETRA-based integrated lone worker protection and indoor location system on the market, we see many opportunities for its deployment worldwide.”

- Sepura has acquired the Austrian infrastructure manufacturer 3T Communications, which specializes in small to mid-sized TETRA systems, mainly for commercial customers. Gordon Watling, chief executive of Sepura, said: “In acquiring 3T Communications we have underlined our ambitions to grow and diversify the business.”