The key to maintaining a high level of security is fail-safe interoperable communications primarily comprised of voice services, such as wireless phones that are equipped with walkie-talkie capabilities.
But today’s mobile communications devices – whether wireless phones or BlackBerry handhelds – could provide these high-security, multi-agency operations with much more than just interoperable voice services. They are able to integrate GPS technology and support data applications that could give commanders better control over their resources and allow them to make well-informed deployment decisions. Advanced data solutions also can assist with tracking the location of individuals or specific subsets of individuals at a particular agency, authenticating credentials for admittance to events or monitoring shift changes, managing equipment inventory, and accessing numerous databases instantaneously from the field.