In Motion Technology (News - Alert), a provider of mobile networking technologies that efficiently connect and manage equipment, information and people in the field, has announced that the El Paso County Enhanced 911 Emergency Communications District is deploying the onBoard Mobile Gateway (News - Alert) as the single communications platform to support a countywide initiative that will improve situational awareness.

According to a press release, this service will provide enhanced 911 service for the more than 700,000 El Paso County citizens, as well as support El Paso’s public safety entities of police, sheriff, EMS, fire, hazmat and emergency management.

“We needed a hardware system for our public safety vehicles that had the ability to expand to new technologies, condense the number of modems and provide the highest bandwidth connection for our applications and devices,” said JC Ocasio, Network Planning Manager, Information Technology Department, County of El Paso. “In Motion Technology is providing a versatile and powerful device that can serve our current and future mobile communications needs.”

The District provides the countywide phone systems that deliver the 911 calls to a Public Safety Telecommunicator, a Computer Aided Dispatch system (CAD) that documents and coordinates responder’s actions, network connections among various radio systems which promote interoperability and Geographic Information System (GIS) services which provide maps to public safety entities for response-routing and analysis purposes.

In Motion Technology’s onBoard Mobile Gateway makes El Paso’s public safety vehicles into wireless hotspots, offering seamless, secure connectivity to laptops, countywide CAD system, Automatic Vehicle Location (AVL), E-ticketing, Automatic License Plate Recognition (ALPR), mobile two finger fast ID, vehicle diagnostic and advanced GPS/AVL systems.

“El Paso has taken an unique approach to coordinating countywide 911 activities by leveraging mobile technology and we are excited to be able to serve them as a customer," said Tony Morris, In Motion Technology’s vice president of sales and marketing. “We believe that El Paso is leading in the new era of police communications and providing their public safety agencies with reliable communications that will improve officer safety and efficiency.”

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