Checking date: 20/06/2022


Course: 2022/2023

Communication systems and networks for security and emergency
(16361)
Bachelor in Security Engineering (Plan: 282 - Estudio: 272)


Coordinating teacher: RAMIREZ GARCIA, DAVID

Department assigned to the subject: Signal and Communications Theory Department

Type: Compulsory
ECTS Credits: 6.0 ECTS

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Objectives
- Ability to analyze and specify the fundamental parameters of a communications system. - Ability to evaluate the advantages and disadvantages of different technological alternatives for deployment or implementation of communications systems in the field of security, from the point of view of signal space, disturbances and noise and the analogue modulation and digital. - Ability to understand the design, deployment, organization and management of systems, networks and telecommunications infrastructure in the context of security, responsible for continuous improvement. - Ability to understand the design, deployment, organization and management of information systems and communications security of areas, and environmental enclosures. - Ability to analyze, encode, process and transmit multimedia information using techniques analog and digital signal processing. - Ability to understand the specification, implementation and maintenance of systems, equipment, heads and facilities of television, audio and video security systems. - Ability to extract and merge information from audiovisual signals and otherwise.   - Understanding and mastery of basic concepts of linear systems and related functions and transforms. - Understanding and mastering the techniques of transmission and the basic parameters of a communications system. - Understanding and mastering the mechanisms of propagation and transmission of electromagnetic waves and their corresponding sending and receiving devices. - Understanding and mastery of information systems and communications security of areas, and environmental enclosures.
Skills and learning outcomes
Description of contents: programme
- Fundamentals of communication systems. - Transmission techniques and systems. - Communication theory. - Information theory. - Radiocommunication. Radiation, propagation and signal processing in different media. - Tactical communication networks (cellular networks, tetra, tetrapod, GSM, UMTS) and strategical communication networks (fixed and mobile, terrain and satellite)
Assessment System
  • % end-of-term-examination 60
  • % of continuous assessment (assigments, laboratory, practicals...) 40
Calendar of Continuous assessment
Basic Bibliography
  • Antonio Artés, Fernando Pérez González, Jesús Cid, Roberto López Valcarce, Carlos Mosquera y Fernando Pérez Cruz. Comunicaciones Digitales. Pearson. 2007

The course syllabus may change due academic events or other reasons.