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Highway Maintenance

Term contracts awarded for highways maintenance in the UK alone are valued at several hundred £ million each year - all to keep traffic flowing and roads safe for its users.

Vast investments are made in integrated network management, the maintenance and improvement of infrastructure, incident and event management and contingency planning.

Contractors to national, regional and local highways authorities operate with crews situated at depots on and around the highway network they manage, often operating around the clock to carry out planned maintenance and emergency repairs.

The potential logistical problems associated in coordinating plant, equipment, materials and crew to multiple locations has resulted in the widespread adoption of two-way radio communications between command and control centres and their highly mobile teams, often located great distances away.

Kenwood has been delivering its two-way radio solutions to highways maintenance authorities and contractors for many years with hand-held walkie talkies, mobile in-vehicle units and repeater systems.

Since the launch of Kenwood's NEXEDGE® peer to peer and trunked digital two-way radios and walkie talkie solutions, many clients operating in the highways sector have upgraded to the improved clarity, increased coverage, additional flexibility and enhanced security of NEXEDGE® digital two way radio technology.

Kenwood NEXEDGE® is a fully scalable digital system which can be easily expanded to accommodate more users and groups and extend effective network coverage. Importantly, NEXEDGE® features Mixed Mode, allowing all its hand-portable walkie talkies and mobile in-vehicle units to communicate automatically with existing analogue radios whatever the make; providing the additional benefit of a straightforward and economical migration path to digital technology.

As you would also expect, all NEXEDGE® hand portable walkie talkies conform to MIL-STD-810 C/D/E/F/G for ruggedness and durability and are IP54/55 Water & Dust Intrusion rated, making them ideal in for operating in open environments. 

For more information on Kenwood Nexedge digital two-way radios and walkie talkies in highways operations, please click here to post an enquiry, or click here to read more about the Nexedge system developed for the state of Hessen's Road Maintenance System.

 

 

Key Features & Benefits

 

Security

• Kenwood NEXEDGE® digital two way radios and walkie talkies offer secure connections without interruptions and the risk of information leaks.

• Kenwood NEXEDGE® digital two way radios and walkie talkies offer inherent security against casual electronic eavesdropping via its NXDN^® digital air interface. It also includes NXDN^® voice & data scrambling for security against external threats while providing confidentiality within the same system and talk group. Inter-network links are further secured through encrypted VPN tunneling.

Economy

• Kenwood NEXEDGE® digital two way radios and walkie talkies feature Analogue/Digital Mixed Mode which, unlike some other brands, allows them to communicate automatically with your existing analogue radios whatever the make; providing a straightforward and economical way to use your existing radios while you upgrade to the benefits of digital.

Scalability

• Kenwood NEXEDGE® digital two way radio systems are designed to grow with your requirements starting with hand-portable walkie-talkies and mobile units for peer to peer communications and scaling up to trunked networks able to accommodate large user groups spread over wide areas (local, regional, national and international) through the use of base stations and repeaters.

Performance

• Kenwood NEXEDGE® digital two way radios and walkie talkies reduce external noise, making them ideal for noisy environments.

• Kenwood NEXEDGE® digital two way radios and walkie talkies are compact, lightweight, rugged and easy to set-up and use by design.

Coverage

• Kenwood NEXEDGE® digital two way radios and walkie talkies deliver strong, clear signals over a much wider area than analogue systems.

• Kenwood NEXEDGE® digital two way radios and walkie talkies offer wider coverage through the greater sensitivity offered by digital narrow-bandwidth technology which also results in lower battery consumption than analogue sets.

• Kenwood NEXEDGE® digital two way radios and walkie talkies in trunked configuration and employing IP connectivity can link remote sites across great distances.

Flexibility 

• Kenwood NEXEDGE® digital two way radios and walkie talkies offer peer-to-peer or wide area trunked capabilities for local, national and international coverage.

Safety

• Kenwood NEXEDGE® digital two way radios and walkie talkies incorporate status buttons, enhanced text messaging, unit ID and man-down functions.

• Kenwood NEXEDGE® digital two way radios and walkie talkies can be programmed for both “Emergency” mode (push a pre-programmed  key to transmit a data alert message) 'Man Down' and “Lone Worker” mode (where the radio automatically transmits an alert  if it isn’t used within a preset period), giving your staff confidence in challenging situations knowing there will be backup at hand.

Efficiency

• Kenwood NEXEDGE® digital two way radios and walkie talkies can provide voice, data and tracking on the same network at the same time allowing you meaning to monitor staff movements and deploy resources effectively.

Wide Range

• Kenwood NEXEDGE® digital two way radios and walkie talkies are available in a wide range of tough, reliable hand-held walkie talkies and in-vehicle formats. These can be simple models for one-to-one communications, to more advanced radios systems with base stations and repeaters to provide extended coverage and networks incorporating sophisticated calling/signaling, messaging and logging facilities for management control.

The range is supported by a full complement of accessories including batteries, chargers, cases and belt hooks, headsets etc.

Future Proof

• Kenwood NEXEDGE® digital two way radios and walkie talkies operate in 25 and 12.5 kHz analog and 12.5 & 6.25 kHz NXDN^® digital modes – meeting spectrum requirements today and into the future.

 

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