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9 November 2009 by Rod McLaren
Friday 23 October 2009: Airwave announced a £39m Home Office deal to enhance their radio communications service for the 2012 Olympics, and add capacity for several thousand police and emergency service officers simultaneously. From the Home Office’s press release:
A summary of the overall requirements:
- capacity to support the additional policing requirements at all Olympic venues
- coverage within Olympic venues
- capability to support public order operational activities involving several thousand officers within confined geographical locations
- capability to ensure business as usual activities are not compromised
- capability to address the risk of a spontaneous major incident whilst continuing to support business as usual and Olympics requirements.
“Several thousand officers within confined geographical locations” is likely to be the most challenging goal. We’d expect the Olympics to be a story of both radio and mobile data use for Airwave. This deal is a big boost for Airwave, and shows that BlackBerry isn’t the only platform vendor with momentum.
Previously: Airwave named as London 2012 supplier.
Other Airwave news:
- Police body could lead FiReControl – “A consultation on the Fire Service’s resilience programme – which includes FiReControl and Firelink – has proposed that responsibility for the programme pass [to] NPIA” – FiReControl is the beleaguered semi-centralised control centre project supplied by EADS, Firelink is the secure radio service supplied by Airwave. This may suit Airwave, perhaps less so EADS. There’s increasing appetite to interoperate services and even run programmes across blue and orange light, catalysed by both 2012 and a desire to achieve cost efficiencies.
- Airwave’s health division has won a deal to supply radio to the Dept of Health’s Hazardous Area Response Teams (HART) by 2010.
Disclosure: Mobbu develop software for vendors in the UK policing market, including Airwave. We also develop and sell our own software products for police services.
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