Mobile Command Evolution

A dedicated team of senior officers from London Fire Brigade has been involved in developing the command support vehicle project. Having developed an advanced specification, the team drew up and tested designs for the vehicle’s internal layout and the technology suite with which it would be equipped. Strong emphasis was placed on providing sufficient space for collaborative working in a multi-agency environment, both inside the vehicle using a plasma touch screen and using a side-mounted, plasma touch screen on the outside of the vehicle. Tablet PCs, wifi and other technologies will also be used to distribute essential command information to headquarters, incident, operations and sector commanders through mapping, graphics, live imagery and organisational charts.

Original story

In a crisis, the right decision needs to be made quickly. At the core of this is effective communication, particularly in the middle of a major incident. Whilst software delivers the essential communcation tools, it will only work with a stable network and hardware infrastructure designed to cope with the demands placed upon it by the software and it's users.

It's symbiotic, there's little point in having one without the other, which is why we prefer to act as a technology partner with software providers: first understanding the project objectives and the software requirements and working together to deliver a reliable solution that works, especially when there's no margin for failure.