Worcester County

[maus92]

Yes. From what I gather in regards to issi you do need the parts on each side. From what I’ve heard quoted Harris charges about 50,000 for its side while moto is 1 mil (so two Motos that want to issi would be 2 million).

I’ve heard this is why FiRST has all but abandoned issi at this point. ( I know it exists between pg and first but I believe moto was heavily involved in that as a test/demo and it didn’t cost the county or state nearly that much)

I'm not sure if FiRST has *abandoned* the implementation of ISSI, but it may be reserving the (currently expensive) technology for metropolitan jurisdictions where in-building performance will likely be severely affected by density. The in-building talk-in / talk-out performance of FiRST system has been better that expected on the Eastern Shore, and the managers probably consider it "good enough" (not worth the expense) for those areas, at least for now. anyway. FWIW, the new Wicomico system had planned to use ISSI, but I'm not sure if it has been implemented.

Is the Harris inter-system technology proprietary?

 

[maus92]

Harris has provided the county a coverage testing report for the P25 system - it passed contractual requirements according to Harris. Worcester DES wants to review the results with their consultant before further recommendations, but generally the report is signed by the county to acknowledge the findings, and sets in motion the final payment for the system - probably about 5% of the contract value.

The report is contained in the 10/2 Commissioners Meeting packet, starting around page 36:

Meeting File Archives | Worcester County, Maryland

 

[maus92]

Worcester's consultant has reviewed the data provided by Harris on the performance of the Worcester system. After a conference call with Harris to clarify some discrepancies, FE concurred with the findings, but noted that a dataset of a different dB contour was not provided, so FE has not signed off as of yet.

Meanwhile, the Mystic Harbor site *seems* to have improved coverage in the Ocean Pines area, where *unofficial testing* showed better performance in a development where poor coverage was previously experienced. No new performance tickets have been submitted using the Harris' reporting tool since mid August, although there was a colloquial report of an ambulance having trouble "scanning."

So the acceptance / performance evaluation process continues.