BIO-key answers the need for a city wide mobile solution
WALL, N.J. – BIO-key International, Inc. (OTC Bulletin Board: BKYI), a leader in finger-based biometric identification and wireless public safety solutions, announced today that, through its partner CYRUN of Santa Cruz, California, it has been awarded contracts by the City of South Lake Tahoe to provide mobile data connectivity for the city’s police and fire departments. Municipalities across the country continue to select BIO-key to enable their police and fire first responders to communicate on a single platform.
South Lake Tahoe joins the many other cities that use the MobileCop™ /FireRMS™ families of products in both their fire and police departments. These cities include, Brentwood, TN and Lincoln, NE. MobileCop gives officers the ability to access dispatch and records information in real-time from the field as well as the capability to communicate in a silent, secure, manner.
Incorporating FireRMS™ Mobile into their existing records management system, will allow South Lake Tahoe personnel to perform field data collection, dramatically increasing their efficiency in administrative efforts associated with inspections. The Mobile Rescue package will also bridge communication among participating first responders and allow mission critical information to be delivered to incident command.
According to CYRUN’s president Glen Haimovitz, “CYRUN’S partnership with BIO-key has created a complete and integrated law enforcement and fire solution that has been engineered to allow information to pass freely between all agency personnel, whether in the station or in the field.” CYRUN’s VP of Client Services, Darrell Luera echoed this adding, “These robust and complimentary systems virtually eliminate all redundant data entry throughout the public safety environment.”
“City wide solutions that cross disciplines allow agencies to effectively communicate and benefit from increased information flow both in the respective offices and in the field,” said Mike DePasquale, CEO of BIO-key. “This is yet another example of data sharing between public safety agencies which is rapidly becoming a requirement nationwide. BIO-key and Cyrun are offering a full and complete solution to best meet South Lake Tahoe’s needs.”
About BIO-key
BIO-key develops and delivers advanced identification solutions and information services to law enforcement departments, public safety agencies, government and private sector customers. BIO-key’s mobile wireless technology provides first responders with critical, reliable, real-time data and images from local, state and national databases. BIO-key’s high-performance, scalable, cost-effective and easy-to-deploy biometric finger identification technology accurately identifies and authenticates users of wireless and enterprise data to improve security, convenience and privacy and to reduce identity theft. Over 2,500 police, fire and emergency services departments in North America use BIO-key solutions, making BIO-key the leading supplier of mobile and wireless solutions for public safety worldwide. (http://www.bio-key.com)
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About Cyrun
ALLIANCE PD CENTRAL from CYRUN is a complete and integrated law enforcement system that utilizes the latest in Windows 2000/XP technology. Computer Aided Dispatch (CAD), Records Management (RMS), Officer Reporting and Detective Tools are all standard functions. This multi-jurisdictional system allows users to access data from any other Alliance Law Enforcement Network system in the region.
The key benefit of ALLIANCE is how it manages the volume of data that flows through a police department on a daily basis. ALLIANCE creates a channel for this data that allows it to move freely from Dispatch to Officer Reports to Records and Detectives. ALLIANCE integrates all the data throughout the police department enabling personnel to enter and retrieve information more efficiently without duplication of data entry. Any information entered becomes immediately available to any authorized department personnel. The net result is that ALLIANCE can significantly reduce officer reporting time and records department workload, while at the same time increase officer safety and provide efficient high quality information solutions. (http://www.Cyrun.com)