FYI,
10/13/21 Requesting legislation authorizing the City Manager to purchase product and services from Vasu Communications Inc. of Avon, OH, through the State of Ohio, Department of Administrative Services, Cooperative Purchasing Program to install and configure an emergency radio simulcast solution.
BACKGROUND INFORMATION: Currently our emergency radio system is a plain old analog repeater and voter system. This older technology is extremely one dimensional and restrictive in both coverage and penetration and needs to be replaced as determined by the IT Manager, Police Chief, and Fire Chief. In essence, user one talks, the radio transmits this message to the voter and then the repeater re‐broadcasts the message to the recipient. Once all this is complete, the reverse happens with the reply. This technology, while having served us over the years does not provide the level of communications that our emergency services require.
This project will install a highly available simulcast system that covers the city for both the Police and Fire departments. This simulcast system will operate in analog once implemented but will be fully P25 digital compliant and ready to move to digital radio communication when the time is right. All our handheld radios are already P25 compliant, so this puts us 100% ready to make the digital move when required to. We will implement three simulcast sites across the city that will function in unison for both services. This will greatly improve our coverage around the edges of the city, known bad spots and in the older building that are problematic for communication and safety reasons. The nature of “intelligent” simulcast allows for more reliable and clear radio communications with all sites working in unison and allowing direct two‐way communication streams.
The timeline for this is unknown at this time.
10/13/21 Requesting legislation authorizing the City Manager to purchase product and services from Vasu Communications Inc. of Avon, OH, through the State of Ohio, Department of Administrative Services, Cooperative Purchasing Program to install and configure an emergency radio simulcast solution.
BACKGROUND INFORMATION: Currently our emergency radio system is a plain old analog repeater and voter system. This older technology is extremely one dimensional and restrictive in both coverage and penetration and needs to be replaced as determined by the IT Manager, Police Chief, and Fire Chief. In essence, user one talks, the radio transmits this message to the voter and then the repeater re‐broadcasts the message to the recipient. Once all this is complete, the reverse happens with the reply. This technology, while having served us over the years does not provide the level of communications that our emergency services require.
This project will install a highly available simulcast system that covers the city for both the Police and Fire departments. This simulcast system will operate in analog once implemented but will be fully P25 digital compliant and ready to move to digital radio communication when the time is right. All our handheld radios are already P25 compliant, so this puts us 100% ready to make the digital move when required to. We will implement three simulcast sites across the city that will function in unison for both services. This will greatly improve our coverage around the edges of the city, known bad spots and in the older building that are problematic for communication and safety reasons. The nature of “intelligent” simulcast allows for more reliable and clear radio communications with all sites working in unison and allowing direct two‐way communication streams.
The timeline for this is unknown at this time.
