SmartConnect for MotoTRBO?

[HospitalRadioGuy]

In my hospital, we use UHF MotoTRBO radios on an IP Site Connect system. It works great for the most part, but we're due for an upgrade.

The local public safety uses APX and they have upgraded their radios to allow connection to our WIFI when they're in the building and can't hit a repeater. I think this is called SmartConnect by Motorola.

We can't budget to upgrade to that type of equipment. But is there any equivalent system for MotoTRBO (or even another brand)? We can't just use WIFI radios, since a lot of our work is outside the building, but it would be nice to atomically switch to WIFI to end our dead spots. The XPR radios advertise WIFI, but isn't that just for programming?

Any suggestions?

Thank you!

 

[Firebuff880]

You need WiFi in the XPR-7500e and then you need a Wave On Cloud identity configured for each subscriber, and then if you want to talk on Common Talk groups comprising both MOTOTRBO & Wave On Cloud users, you need the Wave on Cloud Gateway.

Note: I said XPR-7500e as Wave on Cloud is not yet available on the newer R7 subscribers, supposedly first quarter this year, and I am not sure if it will work on any other subscribers in the TRBO product line.

Finally, SMART CONNECT & WAVE on Cloud are two separate and distinct products even though they basically enable the exact same support.

 

[MTS2000des]

There is also the MotoTRBO iON, wouldn't that be the way to go for broadband TRBO versus WiFi to more mirror the end user experience we get with SC on Astro 25 with our NEXT and N50/N70s?