Thought Leaders From Lilee Systems to Address the Importance of Wireless Technology Standard to Meet Positive Train Control at PTC World Congress
Lilee Systems, the leading provider of advanced communication systems designed for the rail and rail transit industries, today announced that two executives will deliver presentations at the 3rd Annual PTC World Congress, taking place in Orlando, Florida April 17-19, 2013.
- (1888PressRelease) April 20, 2013 - ORLANDO, FL -- Vice President of Strategic Development Jon Adams, who is also Chair of the IEEE 802.15 Positive Train Control (PTC) Group, will discuss the importance of enhancing wireless technology standardization to successfully meet the 2015 PTC deadline set by the U.S. Congress. Geoff Basye, senior advisor to Lilee Systems and also chief of staff to former U.S. Secretary of Transportation, Norman Y. Mineta, will lead a panel debate on collaborating to develop procedures and effective testing plans.
Adams will discuss how more than 90 companies, participating under the open rules and transparent processes of the IEEE, are working to establish an open wireless standard for train communications and control to address the needs of Positive Train Control as mandated by Congress. This standard, due for release around the end of the year, will provide rail operators tremendous flexibility in specifying their communications system components rather than being forced to rely upon closed, proprietary solutions.
Both sessions will be conducted on Thursday, April 18 at the following times:
· 11:15am Panel Debate: Collaborating to Develop Procedures and Effective Testing Plans - Geoff Basye, Senior Advisor to Lilee Systems
· 2:00pm Presentation: Enhancing Standardization - Jon Adams, Vice President of Strategic Development, Lilee Systems
Norman Mineta, former secretary of the U.S. Department of Transportation from 2001-2006 and an advisor to Lilee Systems, has written an op-ed column about the need for one wireless standard, published in the Orlando Sentinel today. The column is available at http://www.orlandosentinel.com/news/opinion/os-ed-trains-in-orlando-041813-20130417,0,5230077.story.
The PTC World Congress is attended by more than 250 leading railroads, commuters, transit agencies, consultancy firms and suppliers to uncover new strategies to meet the deadline for PTC deployment. To learn more visit http://globaltransportforum.com/ptc-world-congress/.
About Jon Adams, Vice President of Strategic Development
Jon Adams has more than 28 years of demonstrated leadership in cost-effective, high-reliability wireless systems engineering, product development and team management. He was a member of the business development team at Freescale Semiconductor, a leader in automotive, networking, and industrial markets, and was director of systems engineering for Motorola's US$400M Radio Products Division. At NASA's Jet Propulsion Laboratory, he was cognizant engineer or contract technical manager for several spaceborne radar and telecom systems for Earth-orbiting and planetary missions.
Adams is expert in LMR, cellular 3G/4G, wireless broadband, Wi-Fi, ZigBee, and RFID. He has deployed mission-critical, extremely reliable communications systems, directed distributed technical teams of diverse talent, and orchestrated technical due diligence for mergers and acquisitions. He is familiar with a variety of rail control systems, from TWC, ABS, CTC, and ATS, to more advanced approaches like ATCS and HLCS, with particular interest in the mandated PTC proposals.
Adams has several U.S. patents granted or pending, and has received many honors including the NASA Exceptional Achievement Medal, the Motorola Standards Impact Award, and the Freescale Diamond Chip Award. He holds BSE and MSEE degrees from UCLA, is a senior member of the IEEE, and is chair of the IEEE 802.15.4p Positive Train Control Task Group.
About Geoff Basye, Senior Advisor to Lilee Systems
Geoffrey Basye has served as a senior advisor to Lilee Systems for nearly three years helping the company strategize on market delivery as well as serving as lead government relations counsel. He has been active on issues surrounding PTC and has spoken at various high speed rail conferences. His focus is in part on finding a political solution to ensure the PTC mandate can be met by the federal mandated deadline of 2015. Basye is also Chief of Staff to former U.S. Secretary of Transportation, Norman Y. Mineta. Much of their work focuses on U.S. and global transportation and infrastructure issues.
About Lilee Systems
Founded by a team of leaders in the networking and wireless industries and headquartered in California's Silicon Valley, Lilee Systems is a leading communications vendor focused on delivering the most reliable communications products and solutions to the industry. Lilee Systems' leaders have extensive backgrounds in Software Defined Radio (SDR) and network routing and switching, and are active participants in standards bodies defining next generation networking and wireless architectures. Lilee Systems' leaders Chair the 802.15.4p task group, and have been voting members for IEEE 802.11 Wi-Fi, 802.15, 802.16 WIMAX for many years. By leveraging its core competencies in Software Defined Radio systems and networking, Lilee Systems has developed the TransAir PTC-3000 product family of 220 MHz radios, along with the Wayside Messaging Server, Mobility Controllers, and Communications Management Units, to offer a complete end-to-end interoperable radio communications network. For more information, please visit www.lileesystems.com.
Key words: Positive Train Control, PTC, Wireless Communications, Networked Communications, Train Safety
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