New mobile data solution for emergency services
O2 Airwave’s new Airwave Data Companion is the world’s first
TETRA-enabled tablet PC and offers the front-line emergency services
mobile access to a range of applications and data solutions.
O2 Airwave is the mobile phone company O2’s communications service for
national public safety organisations and its new Airwave Data Companion
will allow users requiring mobile data services to reap the benefits of
the existing TETRA network, such as high security, widespread national
geographical coverage and resilient service. The product is a robust
tablet PC with Microsoft’s Windows XP operating system. The integrated
TETRA radio, meanwhile, enables secure data communications over the
Airwave network.
“We envisage the Airwave Data Companion will eventually replace the
clipboards and vast amounts of paperwork currently carried by mobile
patrol officers, whilst reducing the need to handwrite reports into police
notebooks”, explains John Rogers, Head of Mobile Data at Airwave. “With
preloaded e-forms, the Airwave Data Companion will streamline officer
administration by enabling information to be entered directly into
databases, which reduces the potential for human error and means officers
can spend more time in the community and less at the police station.”
Source: bjhc&im July 2005
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