So you would route and forward 911 calls to someones house? Are we talking about controling the radio and the console or just the console ? Does the radio interface to the console ? ( BTW I assume this is an onscreen console or virtual console not a real nuts and bolts thing which makes it a little more interesting) How far is the dispatch center from the offsite employee? What is your strategy for fall over when the net goes down ? ROIP is doable, but to have it bullet proof and secure it is not cheap and the words T1 come to mind Another group I work with who knows more I will let you know who they are outside of the list. The other way is to use a remote application like BOMGAR and go in and control the virtual dispatch console, you then use a radio at the employees house to dispatch calls and take care of radio traffic (repeaters enable this well). The 911 calls are forewarded from the real or virtual phone switch so they can still be recorded and logged. They forward to a land line rather than a cell phone. Many years ago we used to port the 911 calls into the radio system and if the dispatcher did not pick up for some reason the local fire house was aware of the call and would start roilling. .The local fire house could patch into the phone via a hard phone line and talk to the caller by conferecing into the call. All lines were secure within the phone network so an outsider could not intercept the phone call once the coneection was made.The incident report would contain the information required so nothing was lost, this goes back a long ways though and I have no idea what the legal in and out of this would be from a security and confidentiality issue. Worth while project just make sure the ability to make this work at muliple locations is possible. Would not want to favor one employee over another.
--- On Mon, 1/4/10, Jed Barton <[email protected]> wrote: From: Jed Barton <[email protected]> Subject: [Repeater-Builder] dispatch centers run through the internet To: [email protected] Date: Monday, January 4, 2010, 1:03 PM Hey guys, I am working on a project and am wondering if anyone has done this. Here's the proposal, to setup a dispatch center for an FD, where the dispatchers can sit at home and work the entire thing. This is not a very busy department, that's why they thought it would be good to do it. I've done a lot of research, and it can certainly be done. This obviously brings up a lot of debate for a number of reasons. In looking at it though, the relyability of the net is very good compared to a verizon phone line. Curious if anyone has done something like this before. For the phone system, we'reusing a virtual phone system that has proven relyability. Thanks, Jed ------------------------------------ Yahoo! Groups Links
