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[Video Placeholder] It started one early Saturday AM . . . with a watermelon. Which, I admit, is not usually how I begin a discussion about Public Safety technology. There were no acronyms involved. No standards document. No federal rulemaking. No vendor slide deck with seventeen arrows, four clouds, and a glowing icon labeled “AI-powered situational intelligence.” Just a 12-inch round…

Historically, the public safety industry loves to talk about innovation… right up until someone asks who’s actually responsible for delivering it? That’s where things suddenly get very quiet. But every once in a while, a state steps up and says: “Enough delays. Enough workarounds. Enough pretending legacy architecture is good enough for the future.” And right now, Massachusetts appears to be…

Congress Wants A Report Card: Is Kari’s Law, Really Working? Kari’s Law turns eight next month, and 9-1-1 turns 58, which is wild because some phone systems still act like it is 1987 and we are all dialing out of a beige desk phone. In Bill H.R. 5201 Congress is now asking, “Cool law… but is it working?” Let’s talk about what “effective” actually means when the clock is ticking and somebody’s…

Geographic Information Systems (GIS) are powerful tools that allow users to visualize, analyze, and interpret spatial data to understand relationships, patterns, and trends. GIS integrates various data types, including maps, satellite imagery, and statistical databases, and links them to a location on the Earth’s surface. This capability is particularly vital for emergency response systems, such…

911: Over 50 Years of Hidden Costs . . . and the Next Generation of Savings

Support for 911 emergency calling for MLTS systems used for enterprises needs to be more widely understood by system administrators. Most often, because of the complexity of 911 administrators, they look for plug-and-play add-ons where they can ‘set it’ and ‘forget it.’ While that may be a valid option for kitchen rotisseries sold by the infamous Ron Popiel, it is not the proper way to purchase…

2022 MLTS 911 Legislative Changes

There’s no denying that the COVID-19 pandemic has significantly modified the mind share around how communication services are delivered to employees that have been forced into a work at home environment. More and more we’ve moved our workforce to a hybrid environment that can provide some significant safety challenges with new legislation that has been recently mandated at the federal…

Kari’s Law / RAY BAUM’S Act 8 years – 1 Month and 5 Days Later

Today, January 6, 2022 the RAY BAUM’S Act Phase 2 went into effect, ensuring that a dispatchable location is transmitted to Emergency Call Centers for 9-1-1 calls from commercial multi-line telephone systems servicing systems in schools, large office buildings, hospitals, and other environments. This new law strengthens the Kari’s Law Act of 2018 which requires direct access to 9-1-1 as well as…