The Year’s Innovation Product is from Aselsan
Aselsan 4900 Atlas Handheld Radio, which was awarded with an "Innovation Product Reward" by the Turkish Electronics Industry Association (TESİD) within the scope of 2012 Innovation and Creativity Awards, denounces a new era in Public Security and Emergency Communication.
Faik Eken, Aselsan Vice President & CEO of Communications and IT Division, said that 4900 Atlas handheld radio is an innovative and creative product and this award fully describes this product. "We brought together the communication and information technology in Atlas. There is a colour graphic screen on the radio. The user is automatically informed on the geographical position through the radio. In other words, the radio shows its user where he is. The radio also has a direction finding feature. The information centre is able to continuously monitor the coordinates of the team using such radio. Our new product fulfils many radio functions solely with data applications." said Eken and continued: "In recent years, the digital applications using advanced technologies in the field of Public Security and Emergency Communication are becoming widespread in our country. The experiences have proven out the challenge to ensure maintainability and sustainability of the systems purchased as a package from foreign countries especially in emergency cases and disasters cases. Aselsan systems are developed by Turkish engineers and the know-how as well as the required man-power to maintain such systems in emergency cases are available in our country. We are proud to give maintenance and repair support to the products within hours regardless of where they are in Turkey."
Developed by Aselsan engineers, Atlas is a new generation product having integrated GPS, maps, data application tools as well as functioning in multimode, multiband and multisystem.
The users are able to learn their geographical positions via the integrated GPS receiver on the device and view on the digital map via the wide screen on the radio. The coordinates of the users are also transferred to the centre over the radio. Thus, the locations and coordinates of the users using handheld radios are possible to be monitored from the centre. The new generation radios, which are compatible with the existing infrastructure, provide the performance of applications simultaneously such as police, gendarmerie, fire brigade and ambulance services.
Multimode, multiband and multisystem functioning features satisfy the diversified demands of the users at mission critical environments with all-in-one handheld radio. Atlas is designed for meeting the needs of users such as wide screen, integrated map, data applications, embedded GPS receiver, high capacity battery, advanced encryption techniques, durability, ergonomics and lightness. Aselsan’s 35 years of experience and valuable customer feedbacks received from all over the world have contributed to the excellent design of 4900 radio.
Atlas shall be an indispensible device for public security
Atlas enables safe and secure communications of Public Security Communication Units using different modes, systems and bands. This diversification makes Atlas 4900 handheld radio a unique device for different users. The radios currently used by institutions operate on two separate frequency bands as VHF and UHF. Atlas enables communication on both bands with a single device.
With its noise suppression system that enables the usage in noisy environments, Atlas has also a USB 2.0 support for quick connection. Aselsan Atlas 4900 radio facilitates the customer’s field operations with its airborne software update support and airborne configurability feature.
After mass production, the first deliveries of Atlas were initiated to Gendarmerie General Command, Turkish General Staff, Service Commands and İzmir Grand Municipality. Aselsan professional radios have a significant share in export activities. Performing export activities to 39 countries, Aselsan sells its radios to many countries amongst which are USA, Saudi Arabia, Pakistan and Sri Lanka. The recently developed Atlas is expected to have more effective and larger market share in international markets.
