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GOVERNMENT SECURITY October 2017
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By Ralph C. Jensen
ETngaging a Rapid Response
here is more than one reason why the emergency dispatcher’s screen. This is a emergency vehicles have lights great story that will help explain real-time and sirens. Several years ago, there emergency response.
was a campaign by the Ohio state Our Lindsay Page spent some time
fire marshal which was, “Move right for with ASSA ABLOY’s Jeff Huggins to better
lights and sirens.” This makes a lot of sense, allowing emergency response to get where they need to be with minimum interference.
Today, there is much more involved than lights and sirens. Back then, there was no such thing as cloud storage. Today, cloud applications are meaningful and necessary for government applications.
Our cover story in this issue is from Nicholas Maier or RedSky, and he talks about the necessity of finding ways to improve response times. Taking a step back, the government created the 911 system. That was back in 1968. Today, a new standard is part of emergency response, and it resides in the cloud.
The cloud is key because there is text 911, video streaming of 911 events, dynamic geo-spatial routing of 911 calls, all of which require a new architecture. The call routing will be routed by cloud-based applications, which is important because when a caller rings up 911, a database will capture the location of the caller, and it will appear on
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Using the Cloud
Finding ways to improve response times
By Nicholas Maier
GS10 Municipal Security
Minimize Crime
IP video city surveillance expanded to optimize safety
By Courtney Pedersen
GS16 Helping Resellers
Grow Your Business
Meeting government requirements can be challenging
By Lindsay Page
GS20 Attack Prevention
Anti-ram Fencing
Considerations for selection, installation to prevent vehicle attacks
By Scott Espensen
GS26 Government Security
Bridging the Gap
Setting up a cost-effective infrastructure to read mobile ID cards
By Steve Warne
understand and provide information on how to grow your business. Doing business with the government can be challenging, but never fear, there are experts who have done this successfully for years.
Huggins, who was interviewed for this story, will walk you, the reader, through the GSA letter of supply, and how it will benefit you if you want to be a government supplier. Huggins and his team of two others staff members are relativelynewtotheASSAABLOYgroup,but clearly understand numerous solutions that apply to the government, and will benefit the manufacturer.
Also important to government security is city security, and how the Hartford, Conn., Police Department (HPD) established its Real-time Crime Center and Data Intelligence Center. As seen all too often lately, keeping a handle on crime and criminal activities in the city is a difficult task. How did they pay for it? HPD used various grants and other available monies, all of which you can help an end-user find and secure.
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