Emergency Communications Systems
A major sports league required secure and reliable voice communications among management and athletes during events. The phones are in hostile environments where they are subject to extreme weather conditions, hosing down, and potential abuse. The Emcom solution was its IP6030-3HR rugged handset phone with dial pad and display, housed in the Emcom H351 weatherproof enclosure. The Emcom solution included …
As part of the Long Island Railroad (LIRR) East Side Access (ESA) project, Emcom provided Passenger Emergency Telephones (PETs), Tunnel Emergency Telephones (TETs), and Blue Light Stations (BLS) as well as an adaptation of EmVista as the ESA Voice Communications System (VCS) head-end. In addition to engineering and development to meet the detailed specification, Emcom created extensive documentation to meet …
Emcom has partnered with New York City Transit (NYCT) over the past dozen years to keep pace with NYCT’s evolving requirements for passenger communications. The initial need was to supplement passengers’ reliance on station agents for assistance, made acute because of plans to close some station booths and curtail the operating hours of others. The initial Emcom EmVista solution was …
From the beginning, and for more than a dozen years, Emcom has supported Sound Transit’s expanding light rail communications system of platform Passenger Emergency Telephones (PETs) and wayside Emergency Telephones (ETELs), all Emcom phones. The Sound Transit EmVista solution involved a head-end with redundant servers and local controllers that backstop the head-end in case of network or head-end failure. In …
Emcom has had a continuing relationship with the Southeast Pennsylvania Transportation Authority (SEPTA) for the past decade, starting with an EmVista system to route calls from analog Emergency Call Boxes (ECBs) on rail platforms to a Transit Police response center at SEPTA headquarters. The Emcom solution included controls to set the ECBs to “blast mode” so Transit Police could use …
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