fire safety
RSS fire safetySecurity in Wireless Sensor Networks
White Paper An even wider spectrum of future applications can be envisioned, such as real-time traffic monitoring, pollution tracking, home surveillance, fire and people sensors in buildings and other smart environments, wildfire tracking, water quality... [30 Jul 2008]
Directorate of Safety, Environment & Fire Policy
White Paper This report is concerned with the management of Safety, Health, Environment and Fire Safety (SHEF) in MOD. SHEF includes health and safety at work, equipment and materiel safety, fire safety and environmental protection. [03 Jul 2008]
National Naval Medical Center Fire Safety Personnel Carry Palm Handhelds For More Efficient Inspections
White Paper The National Naval Medical Center needed a way to streamline the fire inspection process and make documenting violations less time-consuming for inspectors. With inpatient and outpatient facilities spanning an 880,000-square-foot campus, the... [03 Jul 2008]
Kidde customer Webcast: Optimizing the Supply Chain
White Paper Kidde is a leading fire and safety products manufacturer with global operations in 20 countries and 50 subsidiaries. In this webcast, Garth Watkins, Investment Relations Manager and Brian Rambo, Director of Operations at Kidde review the supply... [03 Jul 2008]
Not Just Child's Play
White Paper Thermal Eye systems are designed and manufactured for public safety in fire and rescue, industrial, security and transportation. The products continue to improve the safety of the neighborhood, help rescue victims of accidents, monitor business... [03 Jul 2008]
Ontario Justice Ministry Case Study: Microsoft Interactive Training Reduces Help Desk Calls by 80 Percent
White Paper The Ontario Justice Cluster is a Canadian Provincial Ministry that establishes and administers policies and standards governing policing excellence, the justice system, emergency measures, scientific investigations, fire safety services, the... [03 Jul 2008]
GIS & Mapping Systems for Public Safety
White Paper In practice, that means identifying, mapping and later locating buildings, fire hydrants, power lines, or any other physical feature, not by street address, but by GPS coordinates. The answers to those problems are uncertain, there's an emerging... [03 Jul 2008]
Cisco Mobile Network Solutions for Public Safety
White Paper Applications supporting police, fire, and medical response units are transitioning from simple text and voice to rich multimedia applications. Public safety agencies want to improve their effectiveness and responsiveness to incidents within or... [13 Jun 2008]
Public Safety Agency Increases Crime Lab Investigators Service Effectiveness and Responsiveness
White Paper The Washington State Patrol is a public safety agency with oversight of traditional law enforcement, fire response, toxicology, and criminal investigations across the state. The agency needed to improve service effectiveness of state crime labs and... [12 Jun 2008]
Dear silicon.com... Surfing at home, 'Big Brother' IT and batteries on planes…
Comment Any moderately high capacity battery presents significant fire risk if discharged catastrophically through an inappropriate medium. A PP3 discharging through steel wool is a recognised fire risk in the home. [10 Jan 2008]
US plane security turns on batteries
News Recently, the National Transportation Safety Board could not rule out the possibility lithium batteries started a fire in a plane at the Philadelphia National Airport last year, according to the Associated Press. [04 Jan 2008]
Photos: Five mobile gadgets for cops
Photo Buckinghamshire Fire & Rescue Service is using a mobile process for streamlining assessments by fire fighters of operational risks, home fire risk checks and fire safety audits. This replaces the current paper-based scheme many fire services use... [27 Nov 2007]
San Diego Emergency Dispatch System Depends on Windows 2000 Advanced Server and Stratus Fault-Tolerant Servers
White Paper When San Diego Fire and Life Safety Services (SDFLSS) needed a new platform for its life-critical Computer-Aided Dispatch (CAD) system, it turned to Windows 2000 Advanced Server and Stratus's fault-tolerant ftServer 5200. [28 Sep 2007]
S.P.I.R.I.T. Public Safety Wireless White Paper
White Paper Metropolitan Police, Fire, and other emergency response agencies utilize radios and low bandwidth communication systems to transmit voice and data to mobile vehicles. The Federal Government recognized that the lack of public bandwidth was hindering... [07 Sep 2007]
Wireless Mesh Networks for Public Safety
White Paper Police, fire and rescue, and emergency medical services face a growing array of threats to public safety. Meanwhile, local public safety agencies must cooperate with a much broader range of neighboring, regional, and national agencies, including... [31 Aug 2007]
