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5 Steps to Affordably Grow into a New Fire Station Alerting System
About the Affordability Guide Fire departments and dispatch centers across the country have been faced with the ongoing challenge of doing more with less. Departments are confronting persistent financial challenges, such as a limited budget, while call volumes are increasing and the need to deliver dispatch, fire, and EMS services has become even more essential. […]
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2020 Fire Station Alerting Trends Report
About the 2020 Trends Report Your community’s fire station alerting system is the foundation for executing safe, smart, and reliable emergency response. Throughout this report, we unpack some key trends to consider such as system reliability, situational awareness, and how the concept of “embrace don’t replace†is crucial in keeping our communities and first-responders safe. […]
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A Comprehensive Guide to Selecting a Fire Station Alerting System
About the eBook Your fire department alerting system plays a vital role in your overall response process, and its functionality should be tailored to your department. Additionally, first responder technology that is modernized and highly configurable helps save more lives, decrease response times & improve your community’s ISO fire rating. Whatever your objective—replacing or upgrading […]
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Empowering the Modern Mobile First Responder
About the Solution Brief The nature of responding to emergencies is such that first responders have always been a workforce on the go. And whether they are in-station or on-call when an incident occurs, first responders need accurate and timely incident information. This can mean the difference between saving lives and tragedy. In addition to […]
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Northampton, MA Case Study
About the Case Study Under their previous alerting system, a dispatcher would take a call, enter pertinent information, and then had to manually page relevant units with those details, often times leaving distressed callers on hold for extended periods of time. Now, under the PURVIS FSASâ„¢, once dispatchers are done typing in essentials about an […]
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Concept Development in Mine Warfare Case Study
Case Study Since the days of the Revolutionary War, the US Navy has had a love-hate relationship with naval mines, which have been long known as the “weapons that waitâ€. The US Navy deployed naval mines during both World Wars and since then has only used them on two other occasions: mining North Vietnamese ports […]
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Custom Hardware & Software Development Case Study
Case Study A physical layer switch fabric consists of electronic and/or electro-mechanical devices that function as automated cable patch panels. These switch devices have been in use, successfully, in US Navy labs for many years and providing efficiencies in “wire once†cable management; reduced wear and tear on cables and equipment; cost savings through equipment […]
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