CINCINNATI (FOX19) – City Manager Patrick Duhaney announced on Thursday the city’s Emergency Communications Center has a new director, effective March 8.
Bill Vedra will assume leadership responsibilities from Jayson Dunn, who had been serving as Special Project Manager at the ECC on a temporary basis since June 2018.
Dunn will return to his role as Director of Enterprise Technology Solutions and Chief Technology Officer…
NEW YORK, Feb. 27, 2020 /PRNewswire/ — RapidSOS, the emergency technology company that connects millions of devices to over 3,700 Emergency Communications Centers, is now providing credentialed public safety agencies with Jurisdiction View – a new situational awareness tool to access critical location and additional data during an emergency. This feature is included in RapidSOS’s free software application RapidSOS Portal.
Advanced technology raises questions about the future of emergency communications
[Originally published in the March/April 2020 PSC magazine.]
By Suzanne Ladd, Senior Program Manager for Seminole County Fire/EMS Emergency Communications
It’s really hard to believe that it was just 51 years ago when the first 9-1-1 call was made in the United States in Haleyville, Alabama. At that time, this was innovation and just the beginning of emergency communications center (ECC) operations. Nobody conceived, beyond the world of Star Trek, how technology would play a pivotal role in our world. The introduction of advanced technology is no longer a sci-fi thriller. It’s here, living amongst…
In a letter to the chairs and ranking members of the Subcommittee and parent House Energy & Commerce Committee, NAB President Gordon Smith said that broadcasting “is sometimes the only available communications medium in an emergency when wireless and other networks fail.”
Smith drew distinctions between the wireless broadband networks that were the main focus of the hearing, and wireless broadcast networks that are “redundant, resilient” and have “no bottlenecks,” adding: “An emergency alert can reach millions of people simultaneously without…
GeoComm today announced its partnership with Atos Public Safety LLC and their contract as Prime Network Service Provider (PNSP) with the State of California to transform the state’s 9-1-1 system to a leading-edge broadband communication platform. GeoComm, in partnership with Atos, will serve as the State of California’s statewide Next Generation 9-1-1 (NG9-1-1) GIS data services provider…
