Tango Tango - Kyocera: Radio. Its time for a change. By WebsEdgeSociety

Well we got approximately 1,100 square miles. It's its mountainous terrain. What we would call mountains. A lot of people may call them Hills if you're out west, but to us, they're the highest mountain range in the state of Alabama. We've got a population of around 53,000. Our county seat is Scottsboro, which is a population of around 15,000.

We've got a large County and there's a lot of mountainous terrain around us, so yeah, there's a lot of places where our radios just doesn't work well from one end account to the other. The fact that you have to cross one of two breaches you're looking at approximately 100 miles, so it makes, makes it a hard job on our guys to travel very large County and cover the area that we have to cover. We've got 20 Road deputies to cover this whole County, seven days a week, 24 hours a day, not twenty at one time. Five at one time, if everybody's working but the new computers that we put in there working off the cell towers, which is really great, it's been a tremendous help for us. The reason we chose the Kyocera devices for our agency was it's not a normal smartphone things we had to take into consideration were battery life to make sure to work a full 12-hour shift.

We also have taken into account we found, as we did some tests of different devices, the audio quality of the speakers on the front most of the traditional cell phone technology. We had to bring to ear there's a lot of these are very on our just like that. Okay, so you going to be able to hear the other there had to take into account as rugged ability, a lot of the cell phones to jump out of the car chasing somebody, or you get into something else: inclement weather directing traffic other things, many of the other technologies that companies, unlike Kia's Harris. This is a aura force probe that we've deployed just couldn't, handle this kind of elements in the water, the snow or being dropping to me. We've had many deputies break their filings in the cost of replacing it just wouldn't make wouldn't justify it so going forward, I mean we found, even in our early trials, with the Kyocera devices that it's more durable than the tango has integrated traditional Palomar radio networks, with an LTE network nationwide LT push-to-talk service available from AT&T.

This integration involves a dedicated private encrypted tunnel directly from the MR side to the LTE side. What's important, that does not go over the internet because the internet doesn't provide part station quality service guarantees yeah the traffic, that's going between the LTE network and the MR network never goes over the internet, so it's not affected by other users of the internet and all the many multiple carriers they typically make up the Internet. That's very important, because public safety needs dedicated resources, and they need the reliability and this network and these this tunnel technology can provide that. So our technology is taking element, the Eleanor traffic and tunnel it directly into the eighty push-to-talk now well in the past. As you well know, with the analog radios, we can't communicate with other agents ago they're on another frequency.

Now some of our surrounding agencies will put our frequency in their radios, and we'll put some of theirs and ours, but not all of our cars may have them they're unable to communicate. So when you're doing a multi-jurisdictional multi-agency operation a lot of times, the biggest problem that law enforcement has is communications. Sometimes we may have a mutual frequency that we use, like I'm gonna, have an ad or Alabaman that it's just not very secure, so the options we have with this is to add them to our frequency, and we can call come secure matter to those other agencies. Our investigations unit, if they're out on surveillance, they can switch to a private channel, and they can work their surveillance without interrupting the rest of the deputies are out for control. Some of our Narcotics Unit they're constantly on surveillance.

They can add this to peak of their group, and they can go out there and do their surveillance do their operations without interrupting the other sheriff's deputies that are out there patrolling, and we're networking with a large company AT&T using their 19 towers. Just in my County that doesn't include if I Drive from here to Florida or California, wherever I go. I can still use those towers throughout the nation and listen to my radio. Well, one of the pleasant surprises when we started looking at these new technologies was the newer radio technology was thousands of dollars per handset to get some of the same features. Encryption have your digital audio quality and pop groups, and we found these are the same prices in traditional cellphone and have really brought our cost down per device as it comes to body cameras.

Obviously, it's very expensive to deploy body cameras to every officer, whether you're in a city agency or a county agency, we're trialing right now, some advances of Kyocera on the dirt Forest Pro there's a dual camera with the fish eye lens. So it works very well as a body camera in the early testing of the video provides very good video as a body camera. The other side benefit we learned through the trial was because it's a broadband device and connected to an LTE network. Now the video doesn't have to be uploaded after shift. It can be a back to headquarters.

There are hundreds of horror stories where you grab the radio and try to get out you're not getting out on the radio, especially affordable, may not have cell service to call somebody for help, and this seems to help take care of that problem.

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