davidsyes's Journal: COOL Tech to Save Police Officer Lives

I put this under Wireless Networking because /. seems incapable of auto-synthesizing more diverse and more appropriate Journal Topic selections....

http://iphone.tmcnet.com/news/2009/07/01/4253766.htm

I won't add any self-aggrandizing commentary/editorial to this. The entire article speakes for itself. Exerpts:

"How it Works Rapp says that the whole premise behind COPsync was to build an officer safety notification system. He says that in doing the research to accomplish that, his team discovered a need to work with lots of other technology vendors. Unfortunately, he says, most law enforcement systems in this space are very, very proprietary.

"They don't play well together and it causes issues amongst law enforcement agencies, so from day one we took a position that we will always remain neutral. We said, 'let's build for the mobile environment; let's actually provide it to the guys that are riding around in the patrol car.' And that meant we had to be hardware agnostic, vendor agnostic, and to be honest with you I could almost venture to say that we are technology agnostic. What I mean by that is, we built our technology from the foundation up to work with any possible system that is out there.""

"Furthermore, as soon as that audible tone and visual alert happen in the squad on the scene, the system automatically transmits an officer safety alert to all COPsync-equipped patrol cars within a 50 mile radius regardless of their jurisdiction."