by AllThingsECC.com | Jan 15, 2020 | Uncategorized
By Kyle Richardson, First Responder Network Authority Senior Public Safety Advisor
Canton, Ohio is home to the Pro Football Hall of Fame, attracting visitors from around the country to celebrate the greatest in football history. Nicknamed the “Hall of Fame City,” each year Canton plays host to the Enshrinement Festival, and like other large events, it involves months of advance planning to ensure that first responders across multiple disciplines can communicate seamlessly and without disruption.
After the City of Canton Police Department had a positive experience using FirstNet for daily operations, the Department facilitated a collaboration with other local first responders from the Canton Fire Department and the Stark Country Sheriff’s Office and re-enlisted the network to provide communications support throughout the 2019 Enshrinement Festival events.
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by AllThingsECC.com | Jan 14, 2020 | Opinions
by Manlio Allegra | Urgent Communications
Last spring, we outlined how 3D location can increase situational awareness and improve operational efficiency for public safety responders. At the time, this was a somewhat hypothetical scenario as 3D location technology had been proven but not yet implemented. Since then 3D location capability has been available to application developers through an over-the-top capability.
‘Over the Top’ solutions are positioning techniques that expand on device-based location by incorporating additional sensor measurements and algorithms in an intelligent and robust way. However, public safety still needs wireless operators to implement vertical location capabilities into their networks for E911 purposes. Only then could the public-safety answering points (PSAPs) identify an emergency caller’s vertical location.
The likelihood of a wireless operator implementing this technology received a huge boost recently, when the Federal Communication Commission (FCC) adopted an E911 Z-axis mandate for wireless operators. With this mandate now in place and the first deployment milestone due by April 2021, 2020 promises to be the year when the wireless industry and public safety organizations focus on implementing vertical-location solutions for E911.
by AllThingsECC.com | Jan 14, 2020 | Comm Center News
HENRICO, Va. (WWBT) – Henrico County dispatchers say Monday’s false active shooter threat was the first time they had received a text like that through the “Text to 911” program.
In June 2018 the Henrico County Emergency Communications Center incorporated the text to 911 technology into its system.
“We’ve gotten calls for a medical call,” said Administrative Communications Supervisor Rebekah Taylor. “We were able to give them pre-arrival information over texts to ensure that they’re receiving the same exact…
by AllThingsECC.com | Jan 14, 2020 | Comm Center News
In an emergency, every second counts, and in Lehigh County, those seconds have been mounting.
Dispatch times — when a 9-1-1 call is received to when the first crew is dispatched — have grown by an average of two minutes since the June merger of the Lehigh County and Allentown 9-1-1 operations, according to data analyzed by The Morning Call.
Between June 18, the date of the transition, and Oct. 28…
by AllThingsECC.com | Jan 14, 2020 | Comm Center News
I’m here at the Guardian Center. This full-scale training facility, located in Perry, GA, is where Public Safety goes to test new technologies and their operational impact on real-world scenarios.
I watch from my secure vantage point in the Joint Operations Center (JOC), watching as police and SWAT officers reset their positions. In this simulated city, the smoke is clearing from the previous exercise run, actors playing the role of…
