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Volusia County is getting ready to ditch a 30-year-old communications system and replace outdated 9-1-1 equipment and police radios at a cost of more than $24 million.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
Geographic information system or GIS data is a core element of the modernization initiative to move America’s go-to dial-in service for emergencies from legacy systems to Next Generation 911, or NG911.
As highlighted in a solicitation recently published by the National Highway Traffic Safety Administration, or NHTSA, emergency responders will eventually lean more on specific location data to quickly reach callers in need. Right now, however, the U.S.’ thousands of existing 911 call centers don’t connect via one consistent GIS system—and they are also generally lacking a mechanism for sharing that soon-to-be-crucial location-based data… READ MORE
DALLAS (WBAP/KLIF) – Two of the largest Police Departments in North Texas are working to overcome a national shortage of 9-1-1 dispatchers.
The shortage has resulted in several delayed responses from Dallas Police. City Council woman Cara Mendelsohn said Tuesday that department leadership has taken action to implement a signing bonus for dispatchers.
“But we’ve got to do more so we have a stable staffing of professionals,” said Mendelsohn.
The department also assigned its class of new recruits to work dispatch…
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