Cloud Computing and Public Safety Services
This paper examines the emergence of Service Oriented Architectures, their implementation in Cloud computing services and the likely impact on Public Safety systems and applications.
Smartphones for Law Enforcement Mobility
This whitepaper is a concise summary of the advantages of smartphones, as well as data-only handhelds, and the issues any law enforcement agency should consider when developing a deployment strategy for these devices. In the easy-to-follow format of “Top 10” lists, it addresses key issues such as: “future proofing” your investment to ensure you spend your money wisely; scalability; integration with existing systems; and ensuring that your “short term” implementation can migrate to meet your long term needs.
Mobile Data Hosting
At small departments with little or no IT support staff available, bringing mobile data to officers in the field can seem out of reach. Mobile Data Hosting is a viable answer with benefits such as information sharing, improved officer safety, and significant cost savings. The Kentucky State Police which serves over 250 local police and sheriff’s departments statewide, estimates that it saves each hosted agency as much as $175,000. In this whitepaper you’ll find an explanation of hosting, a discussion of some of the key benefits, and a description of how InterAct Public Safety Systems can help host agencies build and manage a hosting service.
PSAP Networking: Consolidation Without the Politics
Public safety answering points (PSAPs) are looking to gain inter-agency collaboration that will strengthen communities, improve response efforts, and combat growing threats. Yet these same agencies are facing a host of financial pressures. This has led some agencies to physically consolidate PSAPs. However, some agencies quickly realized that pulling dispatchers out of their local communities caused more problems than it solved. Fortunately today, there are new technologies that enable PSAPs to take advantage of “virtual consolidation” to gain the financial benefits of consolidation, while retaining local dispatch.
