Intrado Life & Safety, a public safety solutions provider, announced a partnership with GeoComm, a provider of Geographical Information Systems (GIS) data, to provide public safety answering points (PSAPs) and first responders with indoor maps of critical buildings such as schools, airports, courthouses, and hospitals.
The partnership aims to enhance data by integrating interior GIS data and improving emergency response capabilities. GeoComm’s indoor maps and other sources of supplemental emergency information, including automotive telematics and supplementary data supplied from mobile devices like mobile phones, are available to PSAPs for free with Intrado’s Spatial Insight. With Intrado and third-party integrations as well as stand-alone modes, Spatial Insight offers field teams the best possible detailed information about the emergency at hand.
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“The call centers that support our first responders may have the address of a building such as a school or hospital that is experiencing an emergency, but just the address alone is not enough to locate someone in need inside the building,” said Jaz Lin, Head of Product at Intrado. “Our partnership with GeoComm and the extensions it enables to our Spatial Insight offering help provide public safety call takers the detailed information they need in order to get help to the right people in the right places at the right time. Room-specific location significantly reduces response times, ensuring first responders reach the right room and improve outcomes.”
“It is critical to enable interoperability within public safety and school safety solutions to increase access to critical information. In this case the indoor GIS maps provide increased situational awareness for 911 emergency response,” said Jeff Liebl, GeoComm President & CEO. “This partnership represents our commitment to supporting community safety to save lives and protect property when seconds matter.”
Interested PSAPs are encouraged to claim their free account at https://go.intrado.com/spatial-insight.
