Motorola Solutions demonstrates benefits of OneForce application

Motorola Solutions was demonstrating its OneForce application at PMR Expo 2012 in Cologne. OneForce allows first responders to share maps, photos and videos via a range of different devices including office computer work stations, vehicle mounted notebooks and tablets and handheld tablets and specialised smartphones, such as the company’s own Lex 700 LTE handheld device.

Richard Bennett, solutions marketing manager at Motorola says: ‘You can access these things over GPS, but you don’t get the speed and capacity an LTE network will provide.’

Controllers and teams on the ground with the right devices can see where they and the rest of the team are on a map display. Controllers can draw on the map, cut and paste images and share everything with different talk groups and different organisations via LTE.

‘If there is a big event or incident you can see the command and control, aid points, ambulance stations and so on are and direct them as necessary,’ says Bennett. ‘Or if you have a situation in a building and you need to send in a SWAT team, you can call up the building plans and mark up entry points, the rooms each team member will go into and send that information out to the team on the ground.

‘You can share photographs and video,’ he continues, ‘so you can share in the Cloud photos or clips of people you want to arrest. You can draw a circle around a perpetrator’s position on the map and let everyone know where they are. All this really shows the difference that LTE makes.’

SL 4000 Series Motortrbo radio

Motorola was also showcasing its SL4000 Series radios in the Mototrbo DMR family. It provides a significant difference in form factor compared to its larger siblings, as it is small and light and is designed for use by those more familiar with mobile phones than two-way radios.

Richard Russell, Business Development Manager and Product Specialist - EMEA at Motorola Solutions, says: ‘It’s aimed at customer-facing jobs, such as hospitality, services, security and airport industries, but its size might also make it attractive to some public safety roles. It provides a much more discreet radio for those in smart uniforms or for those in managerial roles who don’t want to carry a bulky radio.’

The SL4000 and the SL4010 feature a slim design and weigh as little as the average smartphone. Despite its size it comes with the full range of features such as Intelligent Audio, integrated Bluetooth and covert mode, but it is restricted to digital only, and cannot communicate with analogue radios.

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Source: Wireless-mag