When it comes to user-interface design, 911 is about as good as it gets. It’s the “most recognized number in the United States,” Steve Souder, a prominent 911 leader, points out. Simple, fast, and it works from any telephone in the United States. No matter what the emergency is, the call takers on the other side will triage and dispatch assistance.
I’ve taken that ubiquity and simplicity for granted over the past three parts of this EC-1 on RapidSOS as we’ve looked at the startup’s origin story, business and products, as well as its partnerships and business development engine. The company is deeply enmeshed with 911, which means that the prospects of 911 as a system will heavily determine the trajectory of RapidSOS in the coming years, or at least, until its international expansion hits scale and it isn’t so dependent on the U.S. market… READ MORE
Cheyenne is a Rangely native and loves all things Rangely! She graduated from Rangely High School in 2015. She furthered her education at Colorado Northwestern Community College, also in Rangely. She is a proud Mother of two boys.
Rangely creates great opportunities for outdoor fun such as hiking, camping, fishing, and hunting, which are Cheyenne’s favorite things to do, especially with her sons.
Cheyenne’s ambition to serve the community was implanted at a very young age as she was very involved with 4-H, FFA, as well as the 2014 Range Call Rodeo Queen. She has been with Dispatch since 2019 and has loved every second! …
When describing the personality of Brandy Watts, the word “enthusiastic” immediately comes to mind, especially when the police dispatcher is discussing her career in law enforcement.
As a dispatcher with the Bakersfield Police Department for more than 20 years, Watts, 47, and her fellow dispatchers take multitasking to level beyond what most people can comprehend.
Whether the incoming 911 call is for a robbery in progress, an officer involved shooting, a baby not breathing or a child abduction, dispatchers must simultaneously answer the call and deploy officers to the scene.
Thousands of 911 centers are improving their response by leveraging the life-saving data of the RapidSOS Clearinghouse. Now, thanks to our NICE Inform integration with RapidSOS, that same data can transform your post incident reconstruction and investigations.
Double Platinum 2020 ‘ASTORS’ Homeland Security Awards Program Winner,NICE Public Safety, has announced it has entered into a strategic partnership with RapidSOS, also a former ‘ASTORS’ Award Winner, to deliver data-driven incident reconstruction and insights to 911 Emergency Communication Centers (ECCs).
As a RapidSOS Ready partner, NICE has integrated its NICE Inform Elite suite of modular applications for incident information management solutions, with the RapidSOS emergency response data platform and has deployed the new solution at multiple 911 centers…
No Shawnee County 911 calls went unanswered Sunday evening because of an AT&T outage that affected dispatching centers in Shawnee and Sedgwick counties.
For an unknown amount of time, people calling 911 in Sedgwick County weren’t getting through due to the outage, which occurred because AT&T was doing work on the system involved, that county reported in a news release Monday.
“Once Sedgwick County 911 Emergency Communications were made aware of the situation, staff logged into the back-up phones and started taking inbound calls that were re-routed to that number,” Sedgwick County said in the release…
People using 911 in Fairfax County can now provide medical details and other information to help first responders know more about a situation before they arrive.
The county rolled out the change on July 1, allowing people to sign up ahead of time with information about a resident who has a special need or needs ranging from anything from Alzheimer’s to autism.
“It could make the difference between someone being saved and not saved,” 911 systems administrator Steve McMurrer told Tysons Reporter…
Learn about current efforts to continue to protect the 4.9 GHz Band for public safety as well as recent filings, key decisions impacting these efforts, and how you can support PSSA’s initiative to protect the 4.9 GHz band for public safety.
