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EMERGENCY SERVICES
:“YES, HAL. OPEN THE QUAD BAY DOORS.”
How advancements in emergency service technologies are keeping campuses safer By Mark J. Fletcher
RECENTLY, THE EUROPEAN EMERGENCY NUMBER ASSOCIATION (EENA) IN BRUSSELS, AND THE NATION- AL EMERGENCY NUMBER ASSOCIATION (NENA) IN THE UNITED STATES ANNOUNCED A NEW COLLABORATION THAT WILL ULTIMATELY TRANSFORM HOW FIRST RESPONDERS HELP SAVE LIVES.
The collaboration is expected to replace legacy first responder sys- tems developed and deployed in the 1960s and 1970s. These aging systems, built many years before the existence of the Internet, are iso- lated and disparate islands of connectivity, built on platforms that are not capable of accepting the current modes of communications used
by citizens around the world, let alone interconnect the more than 6,000 911 centers across the United States.
So, what does this mean for the future of public safety, and more specifically, campus security?
NO TWO EMERGENCIES ARE
CREATED EQUAL – NOR THE SOLUTIONS
In today’s world, emergency communications and notifications are not necessarily specific “systems”, but an ecosystem of various systems, pro- cedures and protocols making up a solution, designed to provide a uni- form command-and-control response to specific emergency conditions.
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CAMPUS SECURITY & LIFE SAFETY
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