criten wrote:ivahri wrote:Radio dying a slow death eh?
More specifically for commerical orgs. Why pay thousands of dollars per year on a radio license and about a grand per radio handset when there are significantly cheaper options? Especially when you can replace your existing radio equipment for approximately the annual upkeep of your radios (of course, under the right circumstance).
ivahri wrote:You need to keep emergency & essential services away from non-essential traffic. The carriers don't distinguish.
Yep, keeping things isolated pays for any moments of congestion. However its wrong to say the carriers don't distinguish - its called 'contention ratio' aka how many users share the line vs actual capacity. When you have a contention ratio of 1:1 you are not sharing with anyone - congestion could only possibly be caused by your own usage. Telstra/Optus/AAPT (the big 3) all sell services with a contention of 1:1. The typical customers are emergency services and telecommunication companies as they cannot tolerate shared capacity.
centralcoastscanman wrote:
If you had ever worked in a hospital you would understand how effective communication with security if needed is the lifeline of nurses sometimes as well.
I still seem to think a panic button would be more reliable, secure, faster to alert, and cheaper to operate. Afterall - security is not just a concern for staff but also patients.
Duress Alarm systems are in use in both clinical and non clinical areas. This is a requirement of Department of Health as well as meeting the employer obligations under the oh&s legislation.
Duress systems if not setup properly also have their own problems.
One hospital I worked at their duress alarm system was setup perfectly and every time the duress alarm was activated security were notified by radio from the control room of the incident so they could respond as generally the security officers were spread out all over the campus conducting patrols.
Another hospital i worked at where the duress alarm system was supposedly setup properly there was a 98% false alarms as the system was not setup properly, in this situation we relied on switchboard to contact us via radio when an emergency call was made by ed staff.
Security in hospitals depending on how big the campus is hardly spend anytime in the office at all, which means that they need to be able to have radio contact with a control room to be advised if there are jobs or if there are agressive incidents to respond to.
Some hospitals this is done purerly via Radio which is what i'd prefer, others its a combiation of security carrying a pager as well as having a radio.
Do you work in the security industry or have you had any sort of medical background or law enforcement background ?
next thing youll be knockin the syntrx
