• Public Safety / Emergency Response

    See First, Understand First, Act First.

    Understanding the impact and scope of a disaster site is critical to an agency's responsiveness. Polycom's mobile solutions provide instant access to people, information and locations and are designed for easy transport, set up, and use during extreme situations such as disasters, terrorist threats, and health care emergencies.

    From urgent face-to-face communications with Central Command to streaming recorded video footage of a hurricane site, Polycom's communication solutions, help agencies assess critical needs and make quicker decisions through real-time interactions.

    Benefits

    • Rapidly Assess Situation – rapidly and accurately assess the situation and produce a real-time common operational picture
    • Speed Coordinated Response – enable instant access to people and information to improve coordination and information sharing across national, regional and local emergency responders
    • Enhance Decision Making – generate increased operational effectiveness by enabling decision makers and emergency responders to implement operations plans and manage crisis situations confidently with access to intelligence information and decision makers
    • Achieve Substantial Cost Savings – distribute training programs that enable responders to quickly hone knowledge and skills essential to improving emergency response capabilities

    Applications

    • Training – develop distributed training programs, team training to include brief/debrief capabilities for pre-mission planning and post-mission assessment
    • Pre-Response – distance education and training to enhance the capacity and readiness to respond to incidents, document major exercises, evaluate lessons learned from previous incidents, train for disaster response
    • Initial Response – assess in real time the extent of physical damage, casualties, contamination and/or risk of disease transmission
    • Emergency Operations Centers – rapidly and accurately assess the situation and produce a real-time common operational picture
    • Mobile Communications & Command Posts – provide continuous information to command and public
    • Multi-organization Coordination & Collaboration – improve coordination and information sharing across national, regional and local emergency responders
    • Improve Situational Awareness – fast and efficient information exchange between geographically distributed locations results in better situational awareness and the ability to make faster, more informed decisions

    Products and Solutions