Wednesday, February 8, 2012
Computers & Software
Yes, There’s an App for That
By Mary Rose Roberts (maryrose.roberts@penton.com)
Developers increasingly are meeting the needs of the fire service — in part because firefighters themselves are doing the creating. ...
A Big Leap Forward
By Randy Harley
A rural volunteer department discovers that technology opens a lot of interesting doors....
FDNY Deploys Software-Based Mayday System
By Mary Rose Roberts (maryrose.roberts@penton.com)
After a 90-day field test and more than one year in research and development, the New York City Fire Department has installed the the Electronic Fireground Accountability System (EFAS)....
When Maintaining Fire Apparatus, Knowledge is Power
By Glenn Bischoff (glenn.bischoff@penton.com)
FirePrograms Software has developed diagnostic software dubbed Link2 that monitors vital vehicle systems, such as the engine, brake and electrical systems, and records key performance and usage data — information that can give departments ample warning that a problem might be on the horizon....
General Dynamics Itronix Introduces Rugged Laptop (with Photo)
By Mary Rose Roberts (maryrose.roberts@penton.com)
General Dynamics Itronix unveiled the GD8200, a ruggedized laptop loaded with a high-speed Intel Core i7 processor. The device is MIL-STD-810G certified, and will remain operational after a 48-inch drop, blowing rain, temperature shock, in humidity, explosive atmosphere, contamination by fluids and solar radiation, fungus, acoustic noise, acidic atmosphere and gunfire shock....
The Bigger Picture
By Meredith Lawler
It is hoped that enhancements to the National Fire Incident Reporting System will result in even more departments using it....
Staffing-, Response-Mapping Site Reaches 75k Users
By Mary Rose Roberts
IamResponding.com, a company that offers a Web-based platform to map first-responder staffing and response, announced that its application is being used by more than 75,000 emergency personal. ...
Need MRIs? There's an App for That
By Mary Rose Roberts
Radiology images taken in the hospital or physician’s office are compressed and then sent over a secure network to a portable wireless device via Cleveland-based MIM Software’s Mobile MIM suite. ...
Emergency Reporting, MED3000 Partner on Reporting, Billing System
By Mary Rose Roberts
Emergency Reporting datasets and other incident-reporting tools now will be included free of charge as part of MED3000’s overall billing solution....
More is Better
By Karen Jacobson
At least it is when it comes to knowledge, as many fire departments are discovering through the careful generation and mining of EMS incident data....
Ventura County Adopts Biometric-Based PC Security System
By Mary Rose Roberts
The Ventura County (Calif.) Fire Department has deployed DigitalPersona’s Pro software and U.are.U fingerprint keyboards to reduce the security risks associated with using common log-ins at shared PCs. ...
Denver FD Deploys Duo-Touch II Tablet for Fire Inspections
By Mary Rose Roberts
Denver fire crew members now can view complete inspection history remotely and then generate forms or citations that can be signed on site by the occupancy manager. ...
Fire Departments Beta Test Fire-Inspection Application for iPad
By Glenn Bischoff
The Chula Vista (Calif.) Fire Department and the St. George Fire Department in Baton Rouge, La., currently are testing ACS/Firehouse Software’s FHinspector application for iPad. ...
Company Looks for EMTs to Beta-Test iPad App
By Mary Rose Roberts
PEPID includes a vast database of disease profiles and medical conditions, coupled with medical and dosing calculators, a drug interactions checker, illustrations, laboratory values and a differential diagnosis generator or symptoms generator. ...
Crash and Learn
By Henry Costo
Philadelphia's state-of-the art simulator is helping apparatus drivers discover their weaknesses before they hit the streets....
NIMS Software Helps Agencies Create IAPs
By Mary Rose Roberts
CNIP meets all NIMS and ICS standards and criteria as mandated by Presidential Homeland Security Directive 5. The software also standardizes ICS terminology and ensures complete interoperability between differing command units....
NFPA 72 to Require Secondary Alarm Transfer Options
By Mary Rose Roberts
The National Fire Protection Association recently approved wireless products for commercial sites as a way to alert emergency control centers of a fire on the premises under section 26.6.3.1 of NFPA 72. ...
Ohio Department Goes Wireless to Improve NIMS Training
By Mary Rose Roberts
The Loveland-Symmes (Ohio) Fire Department recently added HME’s DX300ES, a wireless digital spread spectrum intercom system, to its incident-commander field-training simulator. ...
CAD Software Accepts, Prioritizes Multimedia Messages
By Mary Rose Roberts
The ILM system lets the 911 center solicit incident-specific images from cellular callers and receive and process such images based upon a proprietary message-priority engine....
EF Johnson Develops Fireground Software
By Mary Rose Roberts
EF Johnson Technologies introduced FIRESafe, a software suite that complements their new fire radio. The software addresses firefighters concern about digital radios’ reliability on the fireground, said Ed Kelley, the company’s vice president of marketing and business development....
Chicago University Launches First Electronic Preplanning Program
With its numerous buildings spread over two campuses, Loyola University Chicago needed an electronic preplan system....
Panasonic 'Tough Tests' Refurbs
In Panasonic’s new Toughbook Depot Web site, field professionals throw baseballs as hard as they can to try and knock out efurbished Toughbook laptops....
Ohio Department Deploys Biometrics Monitor
By Mary Rose Roberts
The Stow (Ohio) Fire Department recently deployed MyChoice, a Web-based subscription service from My LifePlan that uses fingerprint biometrics to access patient records. ...
Software Helps Agencies Prepare for Disasters
By Mary Rose Roberts
Avalias introduced Avalanche TTX, a scenario-based collaboration software for disaster-readiness classroom exercises....
LAFD Deploys Vehicle Locator
By Mary Rose Roberts
The Los Angeles Fire Department recently purchased HP workstations that let them run bandwidth-intensive applications simultaneously, including a real-time mapping application that tracks all deployed resources...
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