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Company Profile

intecs, founded in 1974, is an Italian private Com-pany at the forefront in the design and implementa-tion of high-tech electronic systems for theAeroSpace, Defence, Transportation and Tele-communication markets, where safety, reliability,

innovation and quality are the key ingredients forsuccess.

intecs designs and develops applications, toolsand software components for complex electronicsystems in cooperation with major European andItalian Industries, Organizations, Universities andResearch Centers.

Our core competencies include:

System engineering

Surveillance and Command & Control systems

Dependable and safety-critical systems

Operating Systems, drivers, middleware andcommunication software

Human Computer Interfaces

Simulators and Automated Test Equipment

Earth Observation systems and GeographicalInformation Systems

Software Engineering and Software Quality

Process and RAMS coaching

We share with our customers highly valuableknowledge capitalized by our Centers of Excel-lence:

Embedded Real Time Systems Verification and Validation

Model Based Engineering

In 1994 intecs was one of the first software com-panies in Italy to be awarded the ISO-9001 certifi-cation. In 2005, the Defence Division in Bacoli(Naples) achieved Level 3 certification of the Ca-pability Maturity Model (CMM) and in 2009 wasassessed, together with the Traffic Control Divi-sions, at level 3 of the Capability Maturity ModelIntegrated (CMMI).

TETRA NetworkSince 1994 intecs has been supporting the majorItalian companies on the design, implementation,

integration and valida-tion of the TETRA(TErrestrial TrunkedRAdio) system, a digi-tal mobile professionalnetwork particularlyused in the safety andpolice field. intecs hasmade a significant con-tribution to the defini-

tion of the TETRA Digital Mobile Radio protocolaccording to the ETSI standard and contributed

particularly to the design and development of: TETRA Network Emulator for System stress test,

Radio Link Simulator for the Element Manage-ment System test, Command & Control softwarefor a gateway devoted to connect a TETRA net-work to a non-TETRA network

Base Station embedded software dedicated to

maintenance processes, data packet manage-ment and Man Machine Interface (MMI)

Mobile Station embedded firmware devoted toFlash and E2PROM memory management, PIN/PUK management, boot code and softwaredownload

intecs has also provided support in on-site con-figuration, installation and maintenance of TETRAnetworks

GSM/UMTS

intecs has worked with the GSM/UMTS wireless

protocol, in particular in the design and develop-ment of innovative features for mobile terminals.

In this field, intecsalso provided GSM-R(Railway) risk as-sessment for theevaluation of risk fac-tors in the use of theGSM-R signal forrailway applications,

lending particular attention to the risks caused byoutside radio interference (interference from TV

channels, from RADAR,

or radio amateurs) andgiving emphasis to theanalysis of interferencemitigation techniques onsystem performance. Inthe context of GSM/

UMTS, intecs has developed a lot of innovativeembedded applications for the new telephone gen-eration.intecs has also been active in the field of develop-ment and execution of integration and system testson mobile terminals; test cases are designed ac-cording to Technical Requirements Specificationsand are executed directly on the phone to verify itsbehaviour. Validation of test cases (also those de-veloped by others) has been another point of inter-est in this type of activity. Innovative features havebeen designed and developed for new 2G and 3Gphones.intecs has carried out a proof-of-concept analysisof a solution for connecting two GSM-R radios tothe antenna of a high-speed train.

Moreover intecs is performing a research activityfor warning nomadic team workers along tracksabout train arrival. The train detection is performedby sensors placed along tracks and by GSM-RBase Station handover detection in case of highspeed trains.


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WiMAX

According to the IEEE802.16e standard, alsoknown as WiMAX, intecs has been involved in thedesign, development and testing of the Firmwareof the WiMAX radio access physical level protocol,implemented on DSP array based equipment. The

development has also involved firmware for thePC102 board, based on the picoArray architecture;

this is the most gen-eral-purpose and high-performance devicein the picoArray fam-ily. Both Operation &Maintenance and on-board firmware forBase Stations havebeen developed by

intecs engineers.intecs is developing the Wimax Convergence

Sublayer (CS) and the Medium Access Control(MAC) layer protocol stacks for an on-board MobileStation in the Avionics domain.

SDR

Exploitation of SDR concepts using USRP(Universal Software Radio Peripheral) deviceswithin the GNU Radio platform to develop a sys-tem for real-time monitoring of the GSM-R uplink/downlink bands. The aim of the system developedis to detect jamming and prevent damages.

BLUETOOTH

To satisfy various customerdemands, intecs developeda complete BT stack for wire-less communications amongmobile devices, such as au-dio stereo, crash helmets,GPS antennas and more.

VOIP

The intecs experience in the Telecommunicationsdomain has also involved the transmission ofVoice and Video thru the Internet Protocol. Ourexperience can be synthesized into the followingtwo areas: i) to avoid the analogue duplex cableconnection through operator and radio devices inthe Air Traffic Control network, intecs designedand developed a VoIP (Voice Over IP) softwareapplication that permits a more expandable archi-tecture, using the SIP/SDP and RTP protocols, ii)Development of an embedded digital video de-coder for a commercial video streaming system .

NETWORKING

In the wireless networking field, intecs has beenactive in the creation and configuration of multiservice and multi brand Virtual Private Network(VPN). intecs configured and updated master and

slave boards in cus-

tomer routers MSR/MPS; other protocolsused are OSPF(Open Shortest PathFirst), BGP (BorderGateway Protocol),IPsec (IP security pro-

tocol), SNMP (Simple Network Management Proto-col), DHCP (Dynamic Host Configuration Protocol)and Openswan (the implementation for IPsec pro-tocol for Linux OS). Mechanisms to avoid degrada-tion, loss and delay in IP network data transfer aresupported by QoS (Quality of Service) manage-

ment. Intecs has contributed to the design and de-velopment of: Optimized link state routing protocol and provided

data loss recovery mecha-nisms for wireless links.

Among routing configurationand customization there areIPV4/IPV4 and IPV4/IPV6tunnel configuration, Firm-ware porting, test and debugon different router types and

router statistics SW for an embedded gateway with Quality of

Service (QoS). The Gateway allows traffic shap-ing, giving different priorities to several datasources and allocating the bandwidth accordingto established policies

SW tool for assessing the performance at IP levelof the network used for railway signaling. The toolperforms measurement of: One way delay,Round Trip Time, Throughput, Packet loss

Ad-hoc tool for L2 protocol analysis of signalingdata. The tool performs real time data acquisition,offline analysis and several types of graphicalsummary

FW/SW for a ROADM (reconfigurable optical add-drop multiplexer) and the Node Controller for aproprietary network node made by the ROADMitself and a Switch L2/L3. The node is a LER(Label Edge Router)/LSR (Label SwitchingRouter), based on MPLS (Multi Protocol LabelSwitching)

ITS (Intelligent Transport System)

intecs is developing an Infomobility system fordata acquisition, transmission and provision. Traf-fic and parking informations are provided to end

users by control room ad hoc services. A wirelessnetwork infrastructure has been deployed, basedon HiperLAN/2 and including IEEE 802.11p/


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WAVE.

intecs is performing a research activity concerningthe optimization of data transportation according tothe P2P (Peer to Peer) Overlays architecture. Theadvantages of this approach are: network re-sources used more efficiently (e.g., automatic loadbalancing), no single point of failure, resilience to

DoS (Denial of Service) attacks and flash-crowdeffects, high scalability.Moreover intecs is performing a research activityconcerning the Media Independent Handover(IEEE 802.21). It allows handover between hetero-geneous technologies by means of a standardizedtechnology-neutral protocol between radios andthe definition of a Media Independent InformationService (MIIS) to optimize roaming. This applica-tion can help in infomobility system but not only, itis a general purpose solution for seamless connec-tivity.

POSITIONING SYSTEMS

intecs developed receivers for Satellite Navigationbased on Software Defined Radio (SDR) tech-niques that consist in processing radio signals in acombination of software and firmware, rather thanrelying primarily on fixed-function. This approachimproves flexibility, evolution capability (in func-tions and Air Interface), maintenance, testing andRAMS requirements for safety critical system ap-plications, easy creation of simulated scenarios.intecs has also undertaken the SOFTREC project

funded by ESA (European Space Agency) and theresult was a real time GPS-EGNOS L1 softwarereceiver completely written in the C language andrunning on a standard PC with the Real Time Linuxoperating system; it represents a successful ex-perience with CDMA signal processing. The latestdevelopment included both GALILEO receiversand GPS/GALILEO software receivers, realized inthe same unit, which can operate in combination.intecs has developed two versions of the GPS/GALILEO software receiver for two different Mi-croSatellite missions, the Micro-Satellite Forma-tion technological study project and the Satellite

Navigation Payload for the MIOSAT EO satellite

SIMULATOR AND ATE DEVELOPMENT

Design and development of Automated TestEquipment, ie systems in charge of emulating theexternal environment and behaviour of an elec-tronic unit to be validated. Typically, these systemsare electrically interfaced directly with the equip-ment under test and provide functionalities for: i)definition of the single test scenario, ii) execution ofthe single test scenario or a list of, iii) visualizationof the results. The usage of an environment emula-

tor permits the user to execute automatically a setof tests and to verify the behaviour of the equip-ment under test in particular conditions like stress

conditions, limit conditions, duration tests, etc.Moreover, with these systems it is also possible toprogram test execution for a specified period/time(e.g. during the night and/or week-end) and ana-lyze the results at the end, without the need to bepresent during system operation. Our ATEs aregenerally based on either a customer-proprietary

or COTS (Commercial Off the Shelf) software andhardware architecture (e.g. PXI architecture, Lab-View software).

Technical Details Main Host OS: Windows, Unix, Linux (Debian,

Fedora, Ubuntu) Main Target OS: Windows CE, VxWorks, pSOS,

LynxOS, VRTX, Virtuoso, Infinity, MicrOSEK,Linux RT, Montavista, OpenWRT, Zeroshell, Voy-age

Main Programming Languages: Assembly, C,C++, Java, Simulink/Stateflow, Labview

Main Environments/Frameworks: Eclipse,NetBeans, AVRStudio, GeoTools, ICEfaces

Middleware: CORBA, WebServices (SOAP,REST)

Spatial DB: SpatiaLite, PostGis Network & Diagnostic Protocols: SNMP, RTP,

SIP, H.323, LAPB, IPv4, IPv6, IPsec, (G)MPLS Short Range Wireless Techs: Zigbee, Bluetooth,

RFID, WiFi, WAVE Long Range Wireless Techs: GSM, GSM-R,

GPRS, UMTS, TETRA , LTE, Wimax, HiperLAN Network Simulators: NS-2, Omnet++ Specialties: Wireless Sensor Networks, Software

Defined Radio (GNU Radio), GIS, Vehicular Net-works, Peer-to-peer overlays, Media IndependentHandover (IEEE 802.21)

Premises

Intecs S.p.A.Via Umberto Forti N. 5

I-56121 Pisa

Phone. +39 050 9657 411Fax. +39 050 9657 400Web-Site : www.intecs.it

ContactsAlessandro Brachini

Automotive & Telco Division DirectorPhone: +39 050 9657 411Mobile: +39 347 4952285

E-mail: [email protected]

Raffaella MambriniTelco Business Unit LeaderPhone: +39 050 9657 411

Mobile: 346 7204686E-mail: [email protected]

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