Public safety improvement

Miami Dade County has enhanced its emergency response system through software from Motorola and Attunity. The combined solution will deliver expanded on-demand access, integration, delivery and usage of enterprise information to manage the county's incident and dispatch resource system.

The solution includes modules within Motorola’s Premier Computer-Aided Dispatch (Premier CAD) offering, which help ensure that public safety employees have accurate and detailed data including incident management, resource management, system status management plans and profiling, as well as such location information as hazard data, mapping and automatic vehicle location. Attunity’s Integration Suite and its CONNECT products help manage the import/export of some Premier CAD configuration tables. CONNECT extracts GIS information from an Oracle relational database management system, which contains data about the county’s emergency grid locations, and feeds it to the Hewlett-Packard NonStop system. It updates the database that manages assignment of incidents, and that in turn updates the county’s mobile data units. Attunity reports that its technology reduced the time to update and process that data from days to 80 minutes.

Jose Alvarez, Miami Dade IT director, says, “Without Attunity maintaining the system, files would take much more time to update.”