The Power Resilience project aims to further enhance the resilience of NSWTA’s Public Safety Network (PSN). The PSN is a radio network used by frontline emergency services, government agencies and essential services to communicate via handsets. Next to Australia’s triple zero emergency hotline, the PSN is the most important critical communications network in NSW, and one of the largest of its type in the world.

Through its Resilience Program, NSWTA strengthens PSN resilience by delivering a range of mobile assets and upgrades at sites. These measures augment or replace PSN coverage and/or support the safeguarding of commercial mobile networks to ensure communities stay connected.

The Connectivity Innovation Network’s Power Resilience project will further build on this program by establishing a unified data management platform which will facilitate an in-depth understanding of the PSN’s dependency on power supply. Additionally, the platform will provide real-time monitoring of power supply to individual sites, predictive analytics of imminent threats and also provide additional proactive measures to safeguard the network’s operation.

The Power Resilience project is an innovative initiative designed to enhance the resilience of the NSW Telco Authority’s (NSWTA) Public Safety Network (PSN), a critical communications system used by frontline emergency services, government agencies, and essential services across New South Wales. The PSN is one of the largest of its kind globally and is second only to Australia’s triple zero emergency hotline in importance.

This project aims to build on NSWTA’s ongoing Resilience Program, which bolsters PSN reliability by upgrading network infrastructure and deploying mobile assets to safeguard connectivity. By integrating a unified data management platform, the Power Resilience project will provide real-time monitoring of the power supply at individual sites, predictive analytics for potential disruptions, and proactive measures to maintain network functionality, even during emergencies.