The term SmartNet refers to a set of features that make Motorola Type I and II trunked systems APCO-16 compliant.
These include better security, emergency signaling, dynamic regrouping, remote radio monitoring, and other features.
Motorola Trunking radios directly interpret these status bits for their special functions, therefore no difference is noticed by the user.
Below is the conversion chart for these special status bits: Therefore, if a user was transmitting a multi-select call on talkgroup 1808, the trunktracker would actually receive those transmissions on 1815.
This voice channel sub-audible datastream has a limitation in the number of bits it can use to represent a talkgroup ID.
If the systems administrator assigned odd AND even numbered talkgroups there would be a lot of confusion with the Priority Monitor feature when reading the data over the voice channel.
A programmable "timeout" can be set to automatically query any given radio to determine its affiliation status on the network.
At Entergy, TG 29 is used for interZone communications (An analog solution that people in the Texas Telecom group of Entergy (Current Texas Telecom supervisor Steve Gomez, former employee Chris Boone and others) came up with using certain boards extra to the CEB or Central Electronics Bank) to feed the 2175 Hz Push To Talk tone to the other Zone controllers and a Tellabs audio bridge.
The new MZC 3000 SmartZone Zone Controller introduced an Ethernet based connection point for sites, consoles, data broadcast boxes, and C/DIUs.