MRT Reports on Day 1 of APCO Conference

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Motorola packages solution suites for public safety

Aug 7, 2006 12:16 PM
By Donny Jackson


ORLANDO--Industry giant Motorola today announced three new solutions suites designed to serve the public-safety community that will be displayed here at the Association of Public-Safety Communications Officials (APCO) 2006 conference.

Featuring many technologies previously released as part of its MotoMesh portfolio, Motorola this week will unveil Mobile Office for Government solutions, Intelligent Video solutions and Event Management solutions

The mobile-office solutions are designed to let agencies transform patrol cars and other vehicles into virtual offices that let users run applications typically associated with their desktops. By using Motorola’s Multinet Mobility technology, the solutions are not limited to operating on Motorola networks.

“Motorola’s Intelligent Video solutions are designed to optimize the use of video surveillance by gathering video, analyzing which clips are important and sharing targeted video with first responders in the field,

Motorola Application Developer Program—established to serve customers on an as-needed basis previously—that lets application developers make their products “MotoMesh ready,” “A huge driver for our MotoMesh Ready Development Program has been our customers,” he said. “Customers have a number of existing applications that they want to wirelessly enable, and the MotoMesh-ready program has been a tremendous tool for those third-party developers to wirelessly enable those applications.”

Genesis announces P25 compatibility

Aug 7, 2006 12:10 PM
By Donny Jackson


ORLANDO--Texas-based software vendor Genesis today announced that its GenWatch3 product will be available for any Project 25 radio system later this year and will be displayed with an EFJohnson system this week at the Association of Public-Safety Communications Officials (APCOBurks said the P25 common air interface standard is remarkably comprehensive and includes features such as the selective inhibit function that lets system administrators virtually disable a radio after learning that it is in the possession of an unauthoorized user.
In addition to GenWatch3, the P25 discoveries revealed that Genesis also would be able to offer a standardized version of its popular GenSAC product, which lets consoles operate wirelessly. Burks said he has had at least 50 requests to adapt GenSAC to P25 systems.