by AllThingsECC.com | Oct 16, 2020 | Comm Center News
Personnel at the Winters Police and Fire Departments are now using the Vitals app as a tool and resource to better communicate and respond to people who are non-verbal are are unable to communicate well with first responders and emergency personnel.
Vitals serves as a real-time, immediate resource to first responders and local police officers. It sends an alert to their device with critical information about an individual’s specific needs and conditions when they are within a specific amount of feet from them – enabling safer interactions and positive outcomes…
by AllThingsECC.com | Oct 16, 2020 | Comm Center News
IPSWICH — A plan to build a new public safety facility is one of the many issues at stake at a Special Town Meeting scheduled for Saturday.
Voters will decide if the town should spend $630,000 to buy land to serve as the site of the proposed building, and also whether to appropriate $2.25 million to pay for the design of the facility.
Those are two of the 14 articles on the warrant for the Special Town Meeting, which is scheduled to be held Saturday at 9 a.m. under a tent outside Ipswich Middle/High School…
by AllThingsECC.com | Oct 15, 2020 | Comm Center News
POWHATAN – The Powhatan skyline recently saw a big change with the construction of two 400-foot telecommunications towers that represent a significant step forward in the county’s new land mobile radio system.
One steel tower was constructed last week in the 1700 block of Cook Road, and another tower was built the week before that in the 2000 block of Anderson Highway. There is still construction work to be done on the towers and the land mobile radio (LMR) equipment has to be installed on them and then tested and certified, which is another lengthy process, said Tom Nolan, director of public safety communications…
by AllThingsECC.com | Oct 15, 2020 | Comm Center News
OGDEN — Emergency dispatchers might come across as “curt, short or uncaring,” a stereotype Cody Ray hopes will be dispelled when people watch a new reality TV show about the 911 operators.
“It has nothing to do with cutting you off,” said Ray, a lead dispatcher with the Weber Area Dispatch 911 and Emergency Services District. “It has more to do with getting the most important information first.”
The priority is to glean enough details to get paramedics, firefighters or police headed to an emergency right away, Ray said…
by AllThingsECC.com | Oct 15, 2020 | Articles, Comm Center News
This week we will look at a comprehensive report from The FirstNet Authority about the 3GPP standards body and its work in progress, discuss Mission-Critical Push-To-Talk/video/data and why this is taking so long, and see what it takes to manage the FirstNet fleet of deployables.
3GPP Standards Update
In an Advocate entitled, “Why are We Waiting for a PTT Interoperability Solution?” a few weeks ago, I was critical of having to wait for the 3GPP standards that seem to be taking forever and thought we would be better served if the public-safety and vendor communities could come together and push forward to provide full interoperability on the road to a standard. However, some suggested a better solution would be for the 3GPP to continue its efforts and it is…
