I recently found a blog entry, titled “Failed Police Radios at Sandy Hook Raises Common Safety Issue”, on the website of National School Safety and Security Services, an organization that offers expertise in the following areas: security assessments, emergency plan evaluations and crisis communications.
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The ICRI can be used to establish a fixed, tactical, emergency radio link between school security, school administrators and local law enforcement, enhancing school safety.
When U.S and NATO allies or Coalition partners work together on a combined operation, they need to use radio communications to co-ordinate their efforts. However, each nation (U.S., NATO or Coalition) often utilize different encryption schemes or keys in their radios, creating a communications gap between their systems.
Although the ICRI is most often used to connect radios and telephones, it is also capable of connection to a VoIP–based system, such as the Cisco® Unified Communications Manager or WAVE® by Twisted Pair Solutions.
A staff member recently participated in a new working group that is under the NPSTC interoperability committee; its theme is “radio interoperability best practices.”
This post describes how the ICRI supports the interconnection of a simplex radio and a trunked radio, by compensating for the latency in a trunked system
Recently, a semi-annual racing event, drew a large crowd to a small town. Fire and law enforcement agencies, from many surrounding counties, provided additional support during the race.
The following will describe how the ICRI was used as a cross-band repeater to provide communications between several Sheriff’s Departments, that were called in to support a small town, during their annual oyster festival.
Members of the public safety radio communications community may find my summary on various applications of military radio retransmission to be interesting.
“Members of Guyana Defense Force and U.S. military came together to train and improve their interoperability, tactics, and training techniques…to better respond to security challenges, such as transnational organized crime and illicit trafficking of humans. drugs, and other contraband.” Read the entire article at http://www.dvidshub.net/news/85197/us-guyana-defense-forces-reinforce-friendship-cement-partnership-during-exercise-fused-response-2012 Source: http://www.dvidshub.net. Written by Sgt. Taresha Neal