DFES Western Australia selects Omnitronics for radio dispatch

Omnitronics said it is pleased to announce that the Department of Fire and Emergency Services (DFES) in Western Australia awarded the contract to supply an Omnitronics omnicore Soft Radio Dispatch System for critical and other communications across the statewide radio network.

The state-of-the-art scalable Enterprise Dispatch Management System omnicore will be installed in the DFES Communication Centre (COMCEN) in Perth, Australia.

The government department works to coordinate emergency services for a range of natural disasters and emergency incidents including fire, floods, cyclones and major accidents. More than 1,600 operational and corporate staff members and an extensive network of over 27,000 volunteers work on land, in the air, and by sea across 2.5 million square kilometers of Western Australia.
DFES is the second WA government department to select omnicore as their radio dispatch system in just a 2 month timespan. Vast distances and extremely harsh conditions in the largest Australian State mean reliability cannot be compromised. Selecting an Australian dispatch system gives peace of mind that the developers fully understand how to manage communications over vast distances when the mission is critical.