by AllThingsECC.com | Aug 17, 2020 | Articles, Comm Center News
By Randy Richmond, W7HMT
In March 2018, the Nationwide Public Safety Broadband Network known as First Responder Network Authority, in contract with AT&T, was launched as FirstNet®, the first nationwide 4G LTE communications platform dedicated for public safety’s wireless broadband needs. The 2012 Spectrum Act, which funded FirstNet, sallows the dedicated band on the 700 MHz spectrum to be shared with second responders (extended primary status), such as people in healthcare, utilities, transportation, and supporting volunteer groups, including the Amateur Radio Emergency Service (ARES®). Here’s how ARES members can apply for a subscription to FirstNet and use this tool for public service applications. READ MORE
by AllThingsECC.com | Aug 14, 2020 | Articles, Comm Center News
Hackers can wreak havoc on public safety communications networks. Fortunately, there is a lot that agencies can do to increase the difficulty of hacking their networks to lessen, and even prevent, the effects of cyberattacks.
While it is next to impossible to prevent cyberattacks entirely, taking these steps will make it more difficult for hackers to execute them and will lessen their impact on public safety communications networks when they do occur…
by AllThingsECC.com | Aug 13, 2020 | Articles, Opinions
The county commissioners are considering managing the 911 Emergency Operations Center operated and managed by the Citrus County Sheriff’s Office. No way should the commissioners be involved in the managing and operation of the Operations Center. The Emergency Operations Center (911) is a second-by-second operation handling life-threatening situations every minute. Every second counts…
by AllThingsECC.com | Aug 13, 2020 | Articles, Comm Center News
Background: Since 2008, dispatcher-assisted cardiopulmonary resuscitation (DA-CPR) has been running in Tehran, Iran. However, there are numerous cases that the emergency medical dispatchers (EMDs) did not provide DA-CPR or the bystander refused to perform CPR. The purpose of this study was to survey and identifypossible barriers to bystander resuscitation in out-of-hospital cardiac arrest (OHCA) cases…
by ECC Editor | Aug 13, 2020 | Articles
Many buildings use video and audio monitoring, transmitting data to monitoring centers, which contact first responders when alarms are triggered. But even in 2020, information about a scene where an alarm was triggered is still often relayed to first responders by telephone.
“Video or audio data may be available in a monitoring center, and a description of what the operator sees or hears is commonly relayed to the ECC [Emergency Communications Center] verbally,” says Celia T. Besore, MBA, CAE, executive director of The Monitoring Association, the trade organization representing the professional monitoring industry…READ MORE
by AllThingsECC.com | Aug 13, 2020 | Articles, Comm Center News
he FCC has denied petitions by public safety and utility organizations to stay its decision to open up the entire 6 GHz band for unlicensed WiFi use pending judicial review.
In an order issued Thursday, from Ronald Repasi, acting chief of the Office of Engineering and Technology, the FCC said that neither the Edison Electric Institute (EEI) nor the Association of PublicSafety Communications Officials-International, Inc (APCO) had shown they were likely to win their case on the merits, had not shown their members would suffer irreparable harm absent a stay, had not shown that others would not be harmed by a stay, or that the stay was in the public interest, all of which boxes need to be checked to earn a stay…
