APCO 2014: Day 2

  Paul Hager (left), a systems consultant for Hexagon and Hexagon CTO Kalyn Sims highlight key features of the OnCall portfolio of computer-aided dispatch (CAD) and other related functionality. Hexagon has revamped its offering to make the platform accessible to Tier 2 and Tier 3 entities, as well as its traditional larger-agency customers. Enhancements to […]

  Jessica Enewold of Hexagon explains how the company’s analytics solution prepares and processes large amounts of data into information that can help public safety make real-time decisions and compile reports that identify relevant trends. Enewold spoke with IWCE’s Urgent Communications Editor Donny Jackson during the APCO 2019 event in Baltimore.

Language that would reclassify public-safety telecommunicators as “Protective Service Occupation” personnel instead of administrative/clerical workers will not be part of a key defense funding bill, but 911 advocates expressed their intent to continue the reclassification effort through other legislative efforts in 2020. 911 telecommunicator reclassification language was one a many amendments included in the House […]

Spectrum coordinators last week submitted applications to expand land-mobile-radio (LMR) systems operating on T-Band spectrum (470-512 MHz) into a queue, with applications expected to be submitted formally to the FCC beginning next month and continuing through June, according to people familiar with the process. Both public-safety and enterprise incumbent licensees operating T-Band radio systems were […]