As we planned for the FirstNet network, the First Responder Network Authority (FirstNet Authority) worked together with the public safety community to understand their critical communications needs. To make use of mobile broadband for daily operations and emergencies, first responders told us they needed the network to be available when and where they needed it most.
The FirstNet Authority incorporated this important feedback on coverage into our Request for Proposals for the network. We ensured that terrestrial cell sites would be deployed where public safety needed them most according to each State’s plan. We also enabled innovative solutions for coverage by incorporating public safety deployables or portable cell sites into the FirstNet offering. READ FULL ARTICLE
During an emergency, 911 dispatchers are the first line of defense for people in trouble.
And now, the Collier County Sheriff’s Office is working to train the next generation of dispatchers to do this important work.
The sheriff’s office partnered with the Immokalee Foundation to get 11 kids interested in 911 communications this summer through the brand new “Public Safety Career Academy.”
The students will learn police codes, emergency dispatch center technology and how to respond to someone calling 911 in distress…
The European Union’s BroadWay project, which paves a technological path for interoperable, cross-border public safety broadband, has taken another step toward reality, with the project recently demonstrating the results of its prototyping phase for buyers in EU member countries.
According to a Project BroadWay release, it held a prototype demonstration on June 7 with suppliers Airbus, Leonardo and Frequentis.
Project BroadWay already has 11 EU member states involved as procurers, led by ASTRID, which provides emergency and security communication services in Belgium. The prototype demo gathered interest from an additional seven member states and three associated countries, Project BroadWay said…
Volusia County is getting ready to ditch a 30-year-old communications system and replace outdated 9-1-1 equipment and police radios at a cost of more than $24 million.
Volusia County Council members on Tuesday approved the contract for Communications International of Vero Beach to implement the new digital communications system which will be used by fire, police and emergency medical services throughout the county…
ANTIGO, Wis. (WAOW) — Just this month, the Langlade County Sheriff’s Office says it’s taken more than 150 accidental 911 calls.
An accidental call could be fatal when interfering with a real call.
More than 700 times this year there’s been no emergency, just an accidental 9-1-1 call.
“Every time the dispatcher has to take a break to answer every single 9-1-1 call that comes in..it can certainly detract the job of assisting someone that really needs help instead of an accidental dial, and it takes a lot of time to accomplish that,” said Sheriff Mark Westen, Langlade County Sheriff’s Office… READ MORE
The National Highway Traffic Safety Administration (NHTSA) published a solicitation for collaboration efforts on the design, implementation, and operation of a nationwide geographic information system (GIS) data store as a means to create and adopt technical and operational requirements for a national interconnected 911 landscape.
GIS data is a core element of the modernization initiative to move U.S. dial-in service for emergencies from legacy systems to Next Generation 911 (NG911). NG911 utilizes GIS data for 911 emergency call routing functions and location validation functions. Using NG911 technology, the 911 call “finds” the appropriate public safety answering point (PSAP), and does that faster that legacy systems… READ MORE
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.
