Archive for the ‘9-1-1 Technology’

  • Security a priority on campus
    Students discuss the importance of safety, UNLV police step up A violent student diagnosed with severe anxiety disorder shows up on a university campus, locked and loaded. The student enters a dormitory building early in the morning and fires a round. While emergency services respond to the first tragedy, the student continues to shoot up a classroom building before...
    by Sarah at September 3rd, 2009 at 01:09 pm
  • Singapore selects Total Response® for Medical Protocol System
    Singapore is the first country in Southeast Asia to provide medical aid via the telephone.
    by Sarah at September 1st, 2009 at 08:09 am
  • PowerPhone Introduces Multi-Language Support for Total Response
    New capability helps emergency communications centers better communicate with their multicultural citizens. 
    by Sarah at August 12th, 2009 at 09:08 am
  • ‘Disaster satellites’ ready to fly
    A Russian Dnepr rocket is about to place two British-built imaging satellites in orbit that will help relief agencies response to large scale disasters. The UK-DMC2 and Deimos-1 spacecraft will join four platforms already in the sky that together form the Disaster Monitoring Constellation. The network obtains rapid pictures of areas struck by natural calamities –...
    by Jerry at July 29th, 2009 at 07:07 am
  • Robotic firefighting team debuts
    A team of fire-fighting robots has been unveiled by defence contractor QinetiQ at a demonstration in London. The display showcased a quartet of robots aimed at tackling the particular risk of fires involving cylinders of the industrial gas acetylene. The robots range from a nimble, stair-climbing reconnaissance unit to a diesel-powered robot with a large claw. To read...
    by Jerry at July 28th, 2009 at 01:07 pm
  • Wireless power system shown off
    A system that can deliver power to devices without the need for wires has been shown off at a hi-tech conference. The technique exploits simple physics and can be used to charge a range of electronic devices. Eric Giler, chief executive of US firm Witricity, showed mobile phones and televisions charging wirelessly at the TED Global conference in Oxford.He said the system...
    by Jerry at July 23rd, 2009 at 01:07 pm
  • Nashville 9-1-1 launches feedback website
    The Nashville Metro Communications Center has launched a new campaign to get feedback from citizens.
    by Greg at July 21st, 2009 at 10:07 am