Emergency to be notified by television and other means of ICT

Citizens of Russia through the TV after 3 years will be notified of impending emergencies. In practice, the recent flooding in the Krasnodar region has shown that properly functioning in the Soviet era hardware alerts are virtually no work.

According to today's issue of the newspaper "Izvestia", in the Kursk and Leningrad regions deployed zones experienced alerts on a network of terrestrial digital television broadcasting company "Russian Television and Radio Broadcasting Network".

RTRS - Russian state-owned terrestrial TV operator, working on almost the entire country. Tested the digital broadcast standard DVB-T2 should be introduced in Russia in 2015, covering 98% of the population.

To all the people was secured by such consoles and TVs, according to the Ministry of Communications, they will need about 55 million units, with only the console will cost 86 billion rubles. However, to state it would not be a problem: the equipment will be buying the citizens for their money if they want to watch TV after 2015.

Another system, which is experienced by MES, is a network of satellite broadcasting company "Tricolor TV". How to tell "Izvestia" in the company, during the trial tested a prototype of the satellite signal receiver (receiver) with forced inclusion. Ringing an alarm signal automatically causes the receiver to a working state if it is off (but plugged in). Information about the emergency broadcast through it is in an audio format.

The tests were successful. Now we have to consider the possibility of implementing this solution on the entire network "Tricolor TV". Subscribers of terrestrial digital TV standard DVB-T2 in Russia there is little - on the market just beginning to emerge supporting this standard TVs and consoles. But the network "Tricolor" is now - more than 11 million users, the company later this year plans to increase this number to 14.5 million

Despite ample opportunity to broadcast warning of the population, experts see and factors limiting its use in emergency situations. Chairman of the Consortium "Digital Broadcasting Technology Platform" (TSRTP) Andrew Bryksenkov recalls that the citizens of television work only if the power supply. And during emergency power outages are likely in the affected area.

In addition, the range of the transmitter network of terrestrial television is about 50 miles. If the transmitter gets into the affected area, the population will be left without means of obtaining information about the disaster. According to Bryksenkov, for alert there should be simultaneous use of different communication channels: public HF radio, SW, LW-band, satellite television, mobile phones, digital terrestrial television broadcasting network, VHF and FM-radio, wire broadcasting, sound methods of notification.

The use of television in conjunction with essential radio eliminates the problem of costs from the federal and local budgets - people will buy televisions and radios, state structures only need to develop algorithms for transmission of alarms on them. - 17D-