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Technology Committee
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The NPSTC Technology Committee was formed to ensure public safety and public service communities maximize communications capabilities
by facilitating the best possible utilization of current and future technologies. The Committee helps these communities maintain a high
degree of awareness of technological development, deployment, standardization, and regulation. The NPSTC Technology Committee currently
oversees the activities of the following Working Groups:
In-Building Coverage
Mission: To promote the availability of affordable in-building and in-tunnel communications in ways that do not interfere with critical operations and to serve as NPSTC liaison with other entities addressing in-building/in-tunnel communications.
The focus of this group will be to:
- Assess Public Safety in-building communications requirements (Partnered with IBWA to develop survey free of charge to NPSTC; promoted survey participation at NPSTC and subsequently presented summary results. Recently working with IBWA on a "scorecard" matrix of how in-building communications can assist public safety.);
- Assess Public Safety in-tunnel communications requirements;
- Determine interference concerns (Initially significant concerns by Jack Daniel and others, however, request for info on specific interference cases have yielded only a few results),
- Explore ways to minimize interference (Arranged presentation by Dekolink at June 13, 2006 meeting);
- Formulate NPSTC recommendations to FCC on in-building communications issues for Board approval (TBD, as part of white paper development.);
- Liaison with the In-Building Wireless Alliance (IBWA) -- Active and Ongoing;
- Develop In-Building white paper for Board approval and placement on web (WIP-Revised target by June meeting);
- Examine wireless access to building information on the incident scene (Initial discussions at WG mtg. 2/5/07);
- Catalog local ordinances (no Board vote but agreed to in focus group 2/5/07 by several key Board members. Info collected needs to be summarized as part of whitepaper development. (WIP)
Technology Education
Mission: This workgroup will identify technology topics of interest to NPSTC participants and the communications community at large. They will facilitate the development and delivery of appropriate training materials to address those topics up to and including creating publications, marketing plans, seminars, and/or other methods of ensuring educational benefit.
The focus of this group will be to:
- Identify list of target topics. - August 2007;
- Develop a detailed work plan for each target topic, including identification of a SME for each. - November 2007
Technology Education
CHAIRS
Chair - Tom Sorley
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Deputy Director Radio Communication Services
City of Houston, Information Technology Department
611 Walker Street, Suite 901
Houston, TX 77002
Phone: (832) 393-0300
Fax: (832) 395-9483
tom.sorley@houstontx.gov
Vice Chair - Andy Thiessen
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Lead Electrical Engineer
NIST/OLES
325 Broadway
Boulder, CO 80305
Phone: (303) 497-4427
Fax: (303) 497-5969
andrew@its.bldrdoc.gov
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Technology Links
Volunteer
If you'd like to participate in this Committee, please use the form below to volunteer. You will be contacted with the information for the next meeting.
Volunteer Form
Monitoring Topics
New Technologies
P25 Compliance Assessment Program (CAP)
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