Wednesday, September 14, 2005
Pennsylvania state officials to attend mission critical communications demonstration tomorrow in Harrisburg
Public safety officials throughout Pennsylvania have been invited to the demonstration of mission critical communications solutions for government taking place this Thursday, Sept. 15, from 9 a.m. to 3:30 p.m. at the Four Points By Sheraton Harrisburg Hotel at 800 East Park Drive.
Motorola has conducted several of these "Motovision" sessions thoughout the country in 2005 and the Pennsylvania event is expected to be the final one of the year. These events have drawn hundreds of police and fire chiefs, state Homeland Security directors and others interested in viewing the demonstrations of communications technology available to assist state, local and federal first responders. Other sessions have taken place for public safety officials in Washington, D.C., Toronto, Chicago, St. Louis, New Jersey, Anaheim, and Orlando, among others.
Some of the technology to be demonstrated will include interoperable public safety communications like the systems purchased by Dauphin County and Westmoreland County, among others. There will also be demonstrations of mesh networking, the Motobridge interoperable solution which ties together users of disparate radios/radio systems at the site of an emergency (this was used at the last Super Bowl and is being looked at by first responders to Hurricane Katrina to aid in future emergency communications) and a product called Mobile Video Enforcer, which is an in-car, digital mobile video device that allows for clear video of traffic stops and crime scenes, but also allows for easy storage of these digital videos for use in court (there will also be a demo of the next phase of this technology coming out later this year which includes automatic license plate recognition for police squad cars. )
The Harrisburg session will also include seminars, including one by Rich Matason, Director of Public Safety for Westmoreland County, Pa. He will address the issue of interoperable communications, an issue that obviously came to the forefront of public attention in the aftermath of 9/11 and once again in the emergency response to Hurricane Katrina.
In the wake of Katrina, the topics being discussed in Harrisburg once again ring very true and I believe would be very relevant to your viewers as first responders continue to discuss the need for mission critical interoperable communications in emergencies like these as well as daily public safety situations.
Motorola has conducted several of these "Motovision" sessions thoughout the country in 2005 and the Pennsylvania event is expected to be the final one of the year. These events have drawn hundreds of police and fire chiefs, state Homeland Security directors and others interested in viewing the demonstrations of communications technology available to assist state, local and federal first responders. Other sessions have taken place for public safety officials in Washington, D.C., Toronto, Chicago, St. Louis, New Jersey, Anaheim, and Orlando, among others.
Some of the technology to be demonstrated will include interoperable public safety communications like the systems purchased by Dauphin County and Westmoreland County, among others. There will also be demonstrations of mesh networking, the Motobridge interoperable solution which ties together users of disparate radios/radio systems at the site of an emergency (this was used at the last Super Bowl and is being looked at by first responders to Hurricane Katrina to aid in future emergency communications) and a product called Mobile Video Enforcer, which is an in-car, digital mobile video device that allows for clear video of traffic stops and crime scenes, but also allows for easy storage of these digital videos for use in court (there will also be a demo of the next phase of this technology coming out later this year which includes automatic license plate recognition for police squad cars. )
The Harrisburg session will also include seminars, including one by Rich Matason, Director of Public Safety for Westmoreland County, Pa. He will address the issue of interoperable communications, an issue that obviously came to the forefront of public attention in the aftermath of 9/11 and once again in the emergency response to Hurricane Katrina.
In the wake of Katrina, the topics being discussed in Harrisburg once again ring very true and I believe would be very relevant to your viewers as first responders continue to discuss the need for mission critical interoperable communications in emergencies like these as well as daily public safety situations.
