by AllThingsECC.com | Jan 28, 2022 | Articles, Comm Center News
Well, I missed an Advocate last week. When we returned from our mini-cation, Murphy was here to welcome us home. If you don’t know about Murphy, you can find out about him here. In any event, we are back and this week is a run-up to two 10-year anniversaries: the FirstNet Authority and FirstNet (Built with AT&T). Next, we will look at a completely new Internet of Things (IoT) device I think will be a best-seller on FirstNet. Finally, I am suggesting once again that if you do not come from the public-safety community but are working for the FirstNet Authority or FirstNet (Built with AT&T), it is time for you to take a ride-along…
by AllThingsECC.com | Jan 27, 2022 | Articles, Comm Center News
WASHINGTON, January 26, 2022—The Federal Communications Commission today approved an additional 100 applications for funding commitments totaling $47.89 million for its COVID-19 Telehealth Program. This is the FCC’s sixth and final funding announcement of approved Round 2 applications. The FCC’s COVID-19 Telehealth Program supports the efforts of health care providers to continue serving their patients by providing reimbursement for telecommunications services, information services, and connected devices necessary to enable telehealth during the COVID-19 pandemic…
by AllThingsECC.com | Jan 24, 2022 | Articles, Comm Center News
LMR Technology For Public Safety
As a public safety organization, you need an LMR system that’s secure, reliable and ready to go at a moment’s notice.
At Leonardo, our software-defined solutions can be tailored to meet your needs. One size does not have to fit all. We offer solutions based on open standards with multiple modes and architectures, which provides a choice of applications and user terminals, as well as the flexibility to tailor a system to your requirements.
Our ECOS-D technology is multi-mode, capable of both P25 and DMR. For many public safety organizations, the initial direction preferred is P25. That’s because P25 was designed for public safety by public safety organizations…
by AllThingsECC.com | Jan 23, 2022 | Articles, Comm Center News
Within minutes after area residents or visitors to our community call Lapeer County 911 Central Dispatch to report a medical emergency, help is on the way. To the individuals, family members or passersby who placed the 911 call it matters little what colors or whose agency name is on the side of the ambulance, fire truck, or first responder units that show up on scene sirens blaring and lights flashing.
What matters most is that help gets there fast when minutes can be the difference between life and death without medical intervention. Maybe it’s a stroke, a heart attack, an opioid overdose, a suicide attempt, a vehicular or farm-implement accident or an industrial mishap at a local manufacturing facility…
by ECC Editor | Jan 22, 2022 | Articles, Comm Center News
I’ve been receiving a number of questions about the roll out of Kari’s Law and I figured I’d do a quick post on it, even though it is not technically a TCPA issue.
At a high level the Act requires that multi-line telephone systems (including certain VOIP and cloud-based systems) have the ability to pass a 911 dial through the system without having to “press 9” or any other number. It also requires certain notification capabilities to held guide first responders to the “dispatchable location” of the 911 report… READ MORE
by AllThingsECC.com | Jan 21, 2022 | Articles, Comm Center News
By Lori Stone, Senior Public Safety Advisor, First Responder Network Authority
When Walter “Pete” Landon was growing up in Montreal, Canada, he idolized the Royal Canadian Mounted Police. But he was an American citizen whose father had moved the family north for work, and therefore couldn’t fulfill his dream of becoming a Mountie. Now, after more than three decades spent in law enforcement with local and state departments in Maryland, he can look back on a career in law enforcement with pride and the insights of how policing has evolved in that time. In particular, he has seen how technology has improved the way officers communicate and share information, starting with the age-old phenomenon known as “skip.”
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