GeoComm, a provider of Public Safety Location Intelligence, has announced the availability of GeoComm School Safety, a digital mapping solution that leverages the latest Esri ArcGIS technology to support faster response to school emergencies. The solution provides detailed indoor maps of schools and surrounding grounds, along with critical information needed by school safety authorities, public safety agencies, and first responders for streamlining and reducing response times to emergencies inside schools.
GeoComm School Safety is a game changer for schools by nearly instantaneously linking a 9-1-1 call or the press of a panic button to designated school personnel and law enforcement onsite or in close proximity, displaying the caller’s location on a detailed map of the school and alerting others to the incident.
In addition, in schools where there are multiple floors, GeoComm can provide a floor level of a 9-1-1 caller’s location. By empowering school safety personnel and local first responders with up-to-the-minute, highly precise and accurate location information and school maps, including indoors, GeoComm School Safety will help save lives of staff and students while minimizing negative outcomes.
In 2015, the Federal Communications Commission (FCC) adopted new rules requiring wireless carriers to determine indoor positions for 9-1-1 calls from cell phones. GeoComm, recognizing the value that new indoor positioning during emergencies could provide in addition to traditional outdoor maps, began developing now patented 2D and 3D mapping technology to map complex indoor environments as well as outdoor areas for use when planning for or responding to emergencies.
Since 2015, GeoComm has provided building and campus maps for an enhanced emergency response to public safety and security agencies throughout the United States, empowering emergency responders with geographic maps of indoor and outdoor spaces for key buildings in their jurisdictions.
