Thanks to DAS technology, employees and citizens will now have access to a stable, secure and high-performance multi-operator 5G cellular connection throughout the building.
Cellnex Italia, leader in the development of digital and dedicated solutions for the strengthening of the public cellular network, announces that it has completed the installation and testing of the DAS and Small Cells system at “Grattacielo Piemonte”, the new Palace of the Piedmont Region in Turin, designed by Massimiliano Fuksas.
The system will allow approximately 2000 employees and citizens to connect to the network via their smartphones, tablets and PCs at any time and in any place in the building, thanks to a stable, secure and reliable multi-operator 5G Ready cellular connection. performing.
«If the future is digital, connected, innovative, buildings must be too – comments Paolo Gillio, Senior Business Development Enterprise & PA of Cellnex Italia, and adds – Until a few years ago, urban innovation and digitalisation were two distant concepts from each other but today there is more awareness and connected buildings represent one of the main drivers for the development of real smart cities. Tailored solutions such as DAS and Small Cells offered by a single technological partner offer, in fact, efficient and sustainable connectivity capable of offering all citizens fast access to the network as well as accelerating the digitalisation of the Public Administration”.
«Connections are important – observes the Heritage Councilor of the Piedmont Region, Andrea Tronzano – and in everyday life the connections and the speed with which information travels are the litmus test of a functioning institution and system. We have worked to make our skyscraper, the home of the Piedmontese, a place in step with the times, technological and functional. With Cellnex, another step forward is taken.”
«With this system – adds Paolo Frascisco, director of the Piedmont Regional Council – the Skyscraper is equipped with an innovative and efficient service, which allows regional administrators and employees, as well as guests, to take advantage of a ultra-fast, stable, secure and high-performance data and voice connection”.
The DAS system is wired in fiber and consists of a network of over 650 mini-antennas, with minimal visual impact, which guarantees cellular coverage (data and voice) in all the rooms that make up the building, despite the significant vertical development. The tower, with its 205 meters of height (almost 40 meters more than the Mole Antonelliana), its 43 floors above ground and 2 underground, is, in fact, so high as to make it complex to provide adequate cellular signal coverage. Cellnex’s DAS and Small Cells solution, however, allows you to ensure the presence of the signal throughout the building, including inside the 12 elevators and the 2 internal fire escape stairs, as well as in the 3 underground levels dedicated to parking.
In addition to the signal coverage, the system installed by Cellnex it is also able to guarantee optimal management of data and voice traffic demand peaks, an essential feature for an indoor environment where thousands of people can be present at the same time. The technology used is not based on a simple repetition of the signal but on the creation of ad hoc technical rooms where telephone operators install their own BTS (radio base stations), with all the technologies and frequencies available from 4G to 5G. The system, which has a total of 12 km of RF cable, 1 km of optical fiber and 360 m of radiant cable, also includes the configuration of an innovative “Mission Critical DMR” radio communications system to support the communications of the Fire Brigade . In fact, in case of emergency, it guarantees the repetition of the signal in the external perimeter of the adjacent tower and throughout the entire perimeter covered by the DAS system, using a large part of the same infrastructure, in a safe, reliable and resilient way, thus ensuring continuity and coordination also operational with emergency personnel.
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