by AllThingsECC.com | Feb 27, 2019 | Comm Center News
Cloud-based computer-aided-dispatch (CAD) vendor Mark43 today announced a partnership with Carbyne—a cloud-based, call-handling platform provider—to integrate their solutions into what the companies describe as the “first entirely cloud-based incident-response system in the U.S.”
SOURCE: Urgent Communications
DATE: February 26, 2019
Officials for both companies cited the complementary nature of the partnership, noting that both Mark43 and Carbyne share a vision that public-safety answering points (PSAPs) can benefit from the efficiencies and flexibilities that are enabled by cloud-based solutions for both CAD and call-taking.
Matthew Polega, Mark43’s co-founder and vice president of operations, said the advantages of cloud-based solutions are especially evident when an incident requires a PSAP to evacuate its physical facility.
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by AllThingsECC.com | Feb 22, 2019 | Comm Center News
Major changes are happening for emergency calls in Cherokee County.
SOURCE: wspa.com
DATE: February 21, 2019
“We’ve replaced a 30 year old technology,” said Cherokee County 911 Deputy Director Brandon Peeler, adding that changing the infrastructure was a two year process.
He said Cherokee County has the first 9-1-1 center in South Carolina to implement AT&T’s ESInet.
“Now all of our 9-1-1 lines will be delivered on an IP fiber network,” said Peeler.
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by AllThingsECC.com | Feb 21, 2019 | Comm Center News
In anticipation of an update to statewide 9-1-1 communication systems by 2021, gruesome imagery of crime scenes or injuries, individuals’ medical histories and identification of domestic violence or rape victims may be protected from public view under legislation in the Maryland General Assembly.
SOURCE: The Washington Post
DATE: February 19, 2019
Many aspects of a 9-1-1 call are currently available to the public through Maryland’s Public Information Act, said House bill 215 sponsor Delegate Michael Jackson, D-Prince George’s.
Senate bill 5, sponsored by Sen. Cheryl Kagan, D-Montgomery, is identical and working its way through that chamber.
“I am all about public information, I am all about transparency and yet there needs to be a balance between transparency, government openness and personal privacy,” Kagan said.
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by AllThingsECC.com | Feb 19, 2019 | Comm Center News
SOURCE: The Washington Post
DATE: February 17, 2019
The District is using new technology to more precisely pinpoint the location of people who use smartphones to call 911, a shift aimed at getting first responders to emergencies as quickly as possible.
City officials joined with a company called RapidSOS that has helped police and fire departments across the country overcome a critical gap in responding to calls: the inability of modern phones to communicate location data to 911 systems built when people talked only over wires.
It’s a problem because more than 80 percent of the calls to the nation’s 911 centers are from cellphones. That mirrors the District, which fields up to 3,500 911 calls a day.
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by AllThingsECC.com | Feb 19, 2019 | Comm Center News
Grayson County began using Active 911, a program which simultaneously sends call information to all emergency department communication devices
SOURCE: ems1.com
DATE: February 18, 2019
GRAYSON COUNTY, Texas — In an effort to more quickly connect paramedics and firefighters with the information needed in response to emergency calls, Grayson County’s dispatch center has adopted a new notification system meant to streamline the process and save precious time.
The Grayson County Sheriff’s Office said its dispatch center recently began use of Active 911, a program which simultaneously sends call information to all of the emergency department’s registered communication devices, including cellphones and other mobile devices.
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by AllThingsECC.com | Feb 19, 2019 | Articles, Comm Center News
By Ken Bednasz, VP Application Engineering at Telit, Americas.
SOURCE: IoTforall.com
DATE: February 18, 2019
The implementation of the First Responder Network Authority (FirstNet)—the first nationwide high-speed broadband network for America’s first responders—has opened up a whole new range of opportunities for technology to assist in their mission-critical work. FirstNet is built on an LTE network. It’s the flexibility, coverage and bandwidth of LTE and the reliability and resilience built into FirstNet that are catalyzing the emergence of applications, helping to enable new ways of working for the public safety community. FirstNet is built with AT&T in public-private partnership with the First Responder Network Authority.
A key example of the power and importance of FirstNet is the increasing use of real-time surveillance and data gathering by drones, or unmanned aerial vehicles (UAVs). The benefits of drones are slowly being realized, and they’re being deployed in a growing number of agencies to enhance productivity and to increase safety and security.
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