HCS Technologies selects the best technology and products available, from a Wireless Mesh system to a Point to Point Backhaul system to engineer your wireless network. Some installations require small in-building networks while others require a more extensive system bridging between buildings just across the street to systems miles apart. Whatever your requirements, we have the skill, experience and relationships to make your network a reality.

Wireless Network Options

Portable Communication Platform Using Wireless Data Radio Systems,
LandMobile Radios (LMRs), and Video

From the tragic events of September 11, 2001 came stories of fire fighters rushing up a stairwell as policemen were rushing down. The police had been told the first World Trade Center tower had fallen and they should evacuate immediately. When the police passed this information to fire fighters in the stairwell, the fire fighters conveyed they had been given no such information – and continued selflessly and heroically up the stairs to perform their duties.

The result was the catastrophic loss of many lives, lives that may have been saved if the various communications systems in use that day would have been able to interoperate.

While 9/11 exposed critical interoperability gaps in emergency response communications infrastructure, an even larger set of issues became apparent during the 2004 Asian tsunami and again with Hurricane Katrina in 2005.

These catastrophes, which destroyed key infrastructure backbones over vast areas, required temporary communications systems to be deployed and to operate without interruption for months on end. And while these temporary networks themselves can operate indefinitely, the refueling efforts required to keep thousands of diesel generators running became prohibitive – and many communications networks were rendered useless due to lack of diesel-generated power.

Enter RespondComm

Led by the West Virginia High Technology Consortium (WVHTC) Foundation and a few key in-state partners who are committed to researching possible solutions, RespondComm is addressing how to serve emergency responders with interoperable, self-sustaining crisis communications systems.

Specifically, RespondComm is focusing on two important areas:

• Evaluating emerging Worldwide Interoperability for Microwave Access (WiMAX) standards and their potential application to public safety, law enforcement and emergency response communications. By doing this, RespondComm will determine the advantages and impact this type of network provides to public safety and emergency response communications; and

• Expanding the project to include rapidly deployable mobile tower platforms with integrated alternative power sources – solar, wind, and hydrogen fuel cells – to establish critical response networks that can operate indefinitely without concern for power generation.

Click Here to visit the RespondComm website.