Most people picture emergency management as sirens, sandbags, and someone in a windbreaker pointing at a map on the news. That is a small slice of a much bigger profession. Emergency management is the discipline of reducing risk before disasters, coordinating the response when they happen, and guiding communities through [...]
Exercises exist for one reason: to find the gaps in your plans, people, and equipment while the price of failure is still a red face in a conference room instead of a bad day in the field. After 25 years in this business, I have watched exercises change agencies and [...]
A missing portable is not just a lost piece of hardware. It is a valid credential walking out the door, potentially loaded with your traffic encryption keys and able to affiliate to your talkgroups. This guide walks through what a radio system administrator can actually do to prevent unauthorized ac [...]
Un radio portátil perdido no es solo una pieza de hardware extraviada. Es una credencial valida que sale por la puerta, potencialmente cargada con sus claves de cifrado de tráfico y capaz de afiliarse a sus grupos de conversación. Esta guía explica lo que un administrador de sistema de radio [...]
Mientras el radio en su cinturón recibe la mayor parte de la atención, el cambio más grande en las comunicaciones de seguridad pública en esta década está ocurriendo en un lugar menos visible: el centro 911 y el canal de datos entre este y el terreno. El paso de un [...]
While the radio on your hip gets most of the attention, the bigger change in public-safety communications this decade is happening somewhere less visible: the 911 center and the data pipe between it and the field. The move from analog 911 to an internet-based system, precise caller location, text an [...]
Existe una ola de tecnología que promete darle a un bombero que avanza a gatas por un pasillo lleno de humo, o a un equipo táctico apostado en una puerta, un mapa en tiempo real del espacio y de las personas que hay dentro. Parte de esto es real y [...]
There is a wave of technology promising to give a firefighter crawling a smoke-filled hallway, or a tactical team stacked on a door, a live map of the space and the people inside it. Some of it is real and improving fast. Some of it is a research demo in [...]
Durante un siglo, “comunicaciones” para un departamento de bomberos o de EMS significo una sola cosa: su sistema de radio. Si estaba dentro de su cobertura, hablaba; si estaba fuera de ella, estaba solo. Eso ya no es cierto. El push-to-talk celular, el LTE de seguridad pública y una nueva [...]
For a century, "communications" for a fire or EMS department meant one thing: your radio system. If you were inside its footprint, you talked; if you were outside it, you were on your own. That is no longer true. Cellular push-to-talk, public-safety LTE, and a new generation of low-earth-orbit satel [...]
