Two
MATÁV applications received the shared 1999 Innovation Prize of the
Ministry of Transport, Communication and Water Management: the "MATÁVŐR
nation-wide security system" (the organizations implementing it
include, besides MATÁV, Hungarocom Híradástechnikai Kft. and ElektroTop
Fejlesztő, Termelő és Kereskedelmi Kft.) and the "Nation-wide
multi-level integrated geographical information system supporting map
handling, technical planning and inventory tasks". The jury of the 8th
Hungarian Grand Prize for Innovation Competition listed the above two
innovations among the first ten in 50 entrants. The Innovation Prize
was received by Elek Straub, Chairman and Chief Executive Officer, in a
ceremony held in Hotel Gellért today.
Innovation Prize for MATÁV
2000. 03. 31. 00:00:00
Budapest,
The protection of tangible assets and real estate has become
increasingly important over the past decade. It is a novel feature of
the prize-winning innovation that the security signaling system covers
the entire country. The system developed and implemented by the company
is unique in Europe insofar as it uses a dual technological solution
(in-band and over-band transmission) to carry signals to the dispatcher
center in such a way that on the receiving end the two systems are
standard. The system can be flexibly expanded and further developed (to
accommodate functions like meter reading, video image transmission,
intelligent home). The customers are satisfied with the system that has
been developed entirely in Hungary.
The availability of an accurate public utility mapping system relying
on a uniform database is an essential tool of public utility planning.
Such a system helps avoid disturbance or damage to each other's system
by the different utility operators. The prize-winning system meets that
objective: it is connected to an intranet network, contains core
geographic data and the relevant descriptive database, as well as the
connections of the telecommunications objects.
MATÁV has been a member since November 1996 of the Hungarian Innovation
Association which has some 300 members and has been submitting
applications for the Innovation Grand Prize competition since 1997. In
1997 and 1998 the company won the KHVM special award for innovation
with the following applications:
- Improvement of the qualitative and financial indicators of the telephone network (Péter Szentannai, 1997)
- Modern telecommunications services in the new data communication network of MATÁV (Dr. Imre Abos,1998)
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