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Cambridge Consultants Unveils Cost-Effective and Accurate Indoor Locator System
March 11, 2013New technology from innovative product development firm Cambridge Consultants can accurately detect someone’s location indoors when GPS drops out.
Read full articleSalt Lake City Police: Self-Described ‘Next Osama’ Made More Than 100 Threats via 9-1-1
March 11, 2013Salt Lake City police said the threats were made to police officers in general, not specific individuals.
Read full articleMissouri: Sales Tax Proposal Asks Voters to Pay for Major Changes to 9-1-1 Services
March 11, 2013To increase the ranks of workers who take those calls and build an $11.3 million center to house the operations, among other improvements, Boone County government will ask voters in April to approve a three-eighths-cent sales tax to fund combined 9-1-1 and emergency management services.
Read full articleConnecticut: 9-1-1 Upgrade Centralizes Dispatch
March 11, 2013The new update was more difficult because it had to be done while the room was still functioning as a 9-1-1center.
Read full articleDispatch Response to Largest Vehicle Crash in Ohio History
March 7, 2013At 11:35 on Jan. 21, a snow-burst came through the Colerain Township area and caused a chain reaction crash on I-275, which involved more than 80 vehicles, numerous injuries and one fatality. This was the largest vehicle crash in Ohio history, and it was handled with skill and professionalism by the telecommunicators involved.
Read full articlePre-Arrival CPR: Denial Sparks Controversy
March 7, 2013“It was truly upsetting listening to the 9-1-1 call about the incident and knowing that the caller was a medically trained person who was under orders not to provide medical treatment,” says APCO Life Member Mark Pallans, a communications consultant in North Las Vegas, Nev. “But if a plain, ordinary citizen had made that same call would be the uproar still be there?”
Read full articleInterAct Announces Release of Next Generation Mobility Platform for Its Mobile Applications
March 7, 2013InterAct’s new mobility platform supports a new graphical user interface with improved navigation while deepening workflow integration across InterAct mobile, CAD and RMS applications.
Read full articlePennsylvania’s Fastest Growing County Awards Harris Corp. $42 Million Contract to Modernize First Responder Communications
March 7, 2013Harris Corporation has received a $42 million contract from Chester County, Pennsylvania to deploy and maintain an emergency communications system that will deliver superior coverage, interoperability with surrounding radio systems and the capacity to meet future growth.
Read full articleEmergency CallWorks Next Generation E9-1-1 Calltaking Solution Deployed in Bell County, Texas
March 7, 2013Emergency CallWorks Inc. announced that it has recently deployed its Next Generation E9-1-1 Call Taking solution to Bell County Communications.
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