SEND-TO-TETRA

Communicate efficiently with both broadband and office users and TETRA radio users.

Sending and receiving SDS text messages from and to Tetra radios and sending text and photo to TETRA radios.

Chat rooms can be configured to support sending SDS messages to specific TETRA radios and TETRA talk groups. You can send messages to TETRA from all clients including broadband and web.

Individual messages can be selected from room and sent to Tetra. Chat rooms can also be configured to send all messages automatically to TETRA radios.

TETRA radios can also reply to these SDS messages sent from SmartChat. The reply will go into the same chat room that the messages were sent from. When initiating the chat from Tetra radio by sending SDS chat message to SmartChat, the messages will go to #general by default.

TETRA radios can also receive photos posted into the chat room. Sending image with text to TETRA radios SmartChat supports all Sepura, Airbus and Motorola TETRA radios.

LOCATION WITH EVERY MESSAGE

Configurable location data sending from supported clients. SmartChat can automatically add the location coordinates to each message. The user may control the location reporting in their own personal settings.

MULTI-OS AND DEVICE SUPPORT

SmartChat can be installed on a server with Windows 2016 Server or later, Windows 10 Pro, CentOS or RedHat Linux. RedHat and Windows licenses are paid by customer or agreed separately.

SmartChat supports all major client devices:

• Mobile clients for Android 8 or later, and iOS 11 or later, supporting both smartphones and tablets
• Web browser client supporting all modern browsers
• All TETRA radios are compatible with SDS text messaging
• Sepura, Airbus and Motorola TETRA radio models can also receive text+photo messages from SmartChat

SmartChat connects to multiple networks and connects all users to the same messaging solution

SELF-HOSTED

SmartChat is installed by default self-hosted, i.e. inside your own IT environment. You own and control your data. SmartChat can be also installed in cloud if needed.

SECURE SMARTPHONE NOTIFICATIONS

Smartphone cloud-independent notifications. SmartChat supports notifications that are sent using proprietary notification mechanism that is independent of Google or Apple notifications and works completely within your own secure network

SECURE CONNECTIVITY

All broadband client-server communications are secured using industry standard TLS and https. Security is on by default.

USER AUTHENTICATION FOR ORGANIZATIONS

SmartChat can use LDAP (e.g. Microsoft Active Directory) for user authentication. You can also manage SmartChat users using SmartChat.

UNLIMITED CHAT ROOMS

SmartChat supports unlimited number of chat rooms that can be restricted as per user basis if needed (private chat rooms), public chat rooms, one-to-one and multiuser chat rooms are supported as well as multiuser private chats.

FILE AND PHOTO ATTACHMENTS

SmartChat supports most file formats as attachments. Photos will be displayed with the messages. You can take photos with your smartphone camera easily. The files can be selected freely using supported clients. There is a configurable size limit option.

VIDEO MESSAGES

SmartChat supports Video Messages. The Video messages can be recorded from the supported clients directly, or attached as video clips.

VOICE MESSAGES

SmartChat supports Voice Messages. Voice messages can be recorded from the supported clients directly or attached as audio clips.

OFF-LINE EMAIL NOTIFICATIONS

If the user is offline the messages can be sent optionally via email to make sure the information reaches the user.

USER ROLES AND PERMISSIONS

SmartChat supports fine-grained predefined and freely definable user roles and access rights, so you can manage user rights

FAVOURITE CHANNELS

Possibility to tag own favourite channels.

CUSTOM USER STATUSES

Predefined and Custom user Statuses.

EMAIL INTEGRATION

Email integration to send emails for example when users are offline.

GUI CUSTOMIZATION

End user GUI customization, covering icons, colours, sounds, fonts, and localization.

SmartChat is available in multiple user interface languages.

USER PROFILES

Each User profile can have an Avatar, contact details and other information.

SEARCH

Extensive search capability from chat rooms and messages.

PUBLIC CHANNELS

Public channels act as a base for all channel types. Use channels for conversations that are open to your entire team. Anyone on your team can join a public channel.

PRIVATE GROUPS

Private groups are closed channels. They are visible only to their members. Use private groups for subjects that are sensitive, confidential, or limited to a small group of team members.

DIRECT MESSAGES

Direct messages (DMs) are a private 1-on-1 conversation between team members. They can be sent to any user on your server. There is also a feature that allows you to chat with multiple users inside a DM.

MENTIONS

When someone mentions you with @username, @all or @here, a symbol or a number will appear alongside the channel name. When mentioned, an @ symbol appears next to your name. If someone mentions @all or @here a notification will be sent to the relevant users.

DISCUSSIONS

SmartChat supports person to person discussions, person to multiple persons discussions

REPLY IN THREAD

Possibility to reply to any message using discussion threads.

MESSAGE ACTIONS

• Open message actions: to open the message actions menu, tap and hold or click the message actions menu.
• Edit messages: To edit a message, click on the edit option on the message actions menu. You can also place your cursor in the message box and press the Up arrow to edit your last message.
• Draft messages: SmartChat saves drafts of all message edits so you can return to edit later. When drafting a message, press Escape to discard the draft.
• Delete messages: To delete a message, choose Delete in the message actions menu.
• Star messages: Star messages to make the message easier to find it later. To star a message, click the Star option in the message actions menu. If you want to remove the star from an already starred message, click Remove Star.
• Pin messages: Pin a message to a channel to make that message easily accessible to all users on the channel. To pin a message, select the Pin Message option in the message actions menu. Remove already pinned messages by selecting Remove Pin.
• Reactions: You can react to messages with various emoji.
• Permalink a message: Permalink a message to creates a URL directly to that message in the chat.
• Copy a message: To copy the contents of a message to your clipboard, click on the copy action on the message actions menu.
• Reply to a message: Reply to a message to quote a message from another user. The reply automatically triggers a notification sent to the message’s original author.
• Quote a message: Quote a message to respond to another user’s message without notifying the user directly. Select Quote in the message actions menu.

TEXT FORMATTING

You can easily use Bold, italic, strikethrough, inline code and link formatting to format content to hightlight information.

You can use standard Emoji characters in reactions and messages.

INTEGRATES WITH LOCATE SERVER (OPTION)

Integrates with Locate Server enabling the location data handling enabling the locations sent by SmartChat mobile clients to be inserted into the history database. Predefined reporting intervals can be configured in user account preferences.

INTEGRATES WITH SMARTVIEW (OPTION)

Integrates with SmartView enabling the locations sent by SmartChat mobile clients to be visible on the map.

INTEGRATES WITH TETRA NETWORKS

SmartChat can connect to the TETRA network with either a PEI modem TETRA radio or a direct connection to the TETRA network SDS interface.

A modem connection provides a flexible and cost-effective approach for smaller deployments.

For larger deployments SmartChat can connect direct to the TETRA network through a network vendor specific gateway which are available for major TETRA network vendors.

INTEGRATIONS (OPTION)

SmartChat supports Integrations with other systems using Bots and Webhooks. When SmartChat is installed within your secure network, you can integrate securely with your own IT systems. Implementation of integrations provided separately if needed.

FEDERATION SUPPORT

You can connect multiple SmartChat servers together for e.g. a multi-organisation messaging solution, providing both security for each organisation and ability to communicate across organisations.

CUSTOM AND FUTURE FEATURES (OPTION)

SmartChat is being actively developed meaning new features will be added from time to time. Please contact us if you are interested in additional custom or special features.

PC server with 16GB memory and 512GB SSD disk. Windows 10, Windows 2016 Server, RedHat Enterprise Linux 7 or later.