*spotlight: in vehicle systems and mounts 1st July 2005 The 12-inch Gooseneck Halogen Map Light is available in top- or side-mount options and features a 5 Watt halogen lamp
Dual-mode phones key to coverage 1st July 2005 Some facilities discover that more wires can be the key to greater wireless access
Ups & Downs 1st July 2005 Equipment vendors and Southern California public-safety agencies recently staged an elaborate test of 4.9 GHz technologies to determine whether airborne systems could operate without causing problems for ground-based systems. What they found is that the answer largely depends on the equipment used
More police deploy Motorola mobile video system 1st July 2005 Motorola announced that police departments in Toledo, Ohio; Southold, N.Y.; Kennersville and Cary, N.C.; and Bossier Parish, La., have deployed its Mobile Enforcer system
EFJohnson debuts VoIP P25 trunking system finally 1st July 2005 EFJohnson announced the IP25 Trunked Infrastructure System, an encrypted end-to-end digital Project 25-compliant system that uses voice-over-IP technology
NENA announces TTY 911 test system 1st July 2005 New assessment process will help PSAPs comply with Americans with Disabilities Act
NENA wants to work with VoIP vendors 1st July 2005 National Emergency Number Association President Bill McMurray predicted that the FCC’s order requiring voice-over-IP providers to offer the same enhanced 911 services made available by wireline and wireless carriers ultimately would result in new technologies that improve the performance of public-safety answering points
Symbol makes an RFID splash 1st July 2005 New products provide hope that technology will benefit more than just retailers
Texas Instruments makes RFID announcements 1st July 2005 Texas Instruments this week announced that it has begun shipping radio-frequency-identification (RFID) chips–inlays and straps–based on Generation 2 (Gen 2) protocol, marking the company’s entrance into the retailer-centric RFID market
Latest 3GPP standards-development work includes new classes of HPUE, progress on mission-critical services 1 22nd April 2024
Is LMR the best solution for first responders? Should 4.9 GHz license go to the FirstNet Authority? 3 24th March 2024
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