by AllThingsECC.com | Nov 21, 2020 | Articles, Comm Center News
Public-safety users are benefiting from the data-oriented capabilities enabled by LTE on trusted networks today and also will transition voice communications to the broadband platform, although the timetable for this change remains unclear, according to experts discussing the topic this week.
Jeff Johnson, executive director of the Western Fire Chiefs Association and former vice chair of the FirstNet Authority, said that LTE and broadband communications already dominate the public-safety data arena…
by ECC Editor | Nov 21, 2020 | Articles, Comm Center News
The NENA i3 Standard for Next Generation 9-1-1 provides detailed functional and interface specifications for Next-Generation 9-1-1 (NG9-1-1) and serves as the foundation for NENA’s suite of NG9-1-1 standards. As this is a 2nd public review, only the highlighted edits are open for comment.
Version 3 includes key updates to NG9-1-1 infrastructure to ensure continued support for interoperability on a national and international scale… READ MORE
by AllThingsECC.com | Nov 20, 2020 | Comm Center News
CONWAY, SC (WMBF) – Horry County’s 911 center and emergency operations department will be under the same roof soon.
Officials broke ground on a new Emergency Operations and Communications Center Thursday afternoon. Horry County will spend $16 million on the 43,600 square foot building.
That’s a price the county is willing to pay to make sure it can keep people, including emergency employees, safe during a natural disaster…
by AllThingsECC.com | Nov 20, 2020 | Comm Center News
It’s a stressful job being a 911 dispatcher listening to distressing calls all day, but two Denton dispatchers say they’ve learned how to handle it after more than 10 years of service.
The city of Denton’s Public Safety Communications Division of 28 people receives hundreds of calls throughout the 24 hours in a day. Working with eight computer monitors each, at least four of the city’s 911 dispatchers work calls from the second someone dials 911 to getting an emergency response, and work with officers on a call to run information during a 12-hour shift…
by AllThingsECC.com | Nov 20, 2020 | Comm Center News
PATERSON — In an effort to salvage a $7.2 million boondoggle, city officials are now pursuing plans to convert a South Paterson industrial building into a public safety communications center.
The city’s original goal had been to use the building as a hub for local entrepreneurs who wanted to start catering companies and other food-related businesses but lacked cooking facilities. That plan — which stretched across the administrations of four different mayors — stalled as costs far exceeded the original $3 million estimate, officials said…
by ECC Editor | Nov 20, 2020 | Comm Center News
The Metro Nashville Community Oversight Board will research hiring practices at the city’s police department and 911 calls the agency receives related to mental health.
The research comes at the request of two groups: anti-racism coalition Nashville Organized for Action and Hope and the NAACP… READ MORE
