EU - SECRICOM - Seamless communication for crisis management

SECRICOM is proposed as a collaborative research project aiming at development of a reference security platform for EU crisis management operations with two essential ambitions:

(A) Solve or mitigate problems of contemporary crisis communication infrastructures (Tetra, GSM, Citizen Band, IP) such as poor interoperability of specialized communication means, vulnerability against tapping and misuse, lack of possibilities to recover from failures, inability to use alternative data carrier and high deployment and operational costs.

(B) Add new smart functions to existing services which will make the communication more effective and helpful for users. Smart functions will be provided by distributed IT systems based on an agents' infrastructure. Achieving these two project ambitions will allow creating a pervasive and trusted communication infrastructure fulfilling requirements of crisis management users and ready for immediate application.

The SECRICOM solutions are based on four technological pillars:
(1) Secure encrypted mobile communication on existing infrastructures (GSM, UMTS networks) secure push to talk systems.
(2) Improved interoperability among various existing communicating systems, creating recoverable networks and seamless connectivity.