Arlington Texas Emergency Management Center
Arlington Texas, located within the Dallas-Fort Worth-Arlington metropolitan area, is home to more than 350,000 residents. It’s the 50th largest city in the United States, according to a 2007 U.S. Census Bureau report and has an increasing rate of tourists, ranking it as one of the top three most visited cities in the U.S. One should expect these statistics, considering that Arlington boasts a newly constructed stadium for the Dallas Cowboys (host of the 2011 Super Bowl) and Texas Rangers Ballpark. With this kind of growth, the city of Arlington needed a true command and control center that provided total situational awareness of the city’s area to improve public safety management and response.
Bergen County Emergency Operations Center
The newly constructed Public Safety Emergency Operations Center of Bergen County, NJ, which was opened in October 2010, is a 36,000 square foot 911 Command Center equipped with a Communications Center responsible for public safety response including County Police, Fire Coordinators, and County Emergency Management. The center is currently contracted for shared services with 13 municipalities, with additional municipalities intending to consolidate their services in 2011. The new operations center could mean potential savings for towns that choose to run emergency dispatch through the facility. Service consolidation could save each municipality up to 200K a year.
FEMA Grants and Training
FEMA’s Office of Domestic Preparedness (now the Office of Grants and Training) initiated the rebuild of an existing space to create a new Conference and Training facility. Initially envisioned as a place to educate state and local Government agencies on how to acquire and use training grants, the facility’s use is being expanded to cover a full range of course types. The facility required a visualization and collaboration solution that could accommodate an extensive quantity and diverse range of video and data sources, as well as provide display technology that would be flexible and ensure complete visibility in different types of presentation situations.
New York Police Department (NYPD)
The NYPD’s mission is to enhance the quality of life in the City by working in partnership with the community and in accordance with constitutional rights to enforce laws, preserve peace, reduce fears and provide a safe environment. The objective for establishing the Real Time Crime Center (RTCC) was to help police stop spikes in crime before they became trends, catching dangerous criminals before they could hurt others.
Port of Long Beach
The Port of Long Beach is the second busiest container port in the USA, presenting unique challenges for the various agencies collectively responsible for maintaining security. The new $21 million facility serves as the communications hub and headquarters for the Port of Long Beach Security Division and Harbor Patrol, as well as housing personnel from the Long Beach Police Department, Port of Los Angeles, U.S. Coast Guard, U.S. Customs and Border Protection, and Marine Exchange during an emergency. The new Joint Command and Control Center required an information display system capable of facilitating collaboration within a multi-agency environment. It was critical that the system was a network-based solution capable of establishing connectivity among diverse locations spread over three floors, as well as being easily extended to connect with organizations in other geographic locations in the future.
