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St. Francois County Joint Communications

Answers the call for next-generation 9-1-1

Industry: Local Government and Cities
Region: Missouri
HQ: Missouri, USA
Company size: Agency serves 88,000 people
across 950 square miles in Southeast Missouri

“In my business, seconds mean life or death, Atos’ team understands this; they anticipate what we need and customize solutions to fit our operations.”

Alan Wells,
St. Francois County 9-1-1 Director

Missouri counties modernized their emergency services technology to support mobile devices and future applications.

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St. Francois County Joint Communications, a consolidated dispatch center in rural southeast Missouri, saw NG9-1-1 as the path to the future when it needed to replace an out-of-date analog system. The center needed a solution that could meet current standards for call delivery, including better support for wireless callers, and quickly adapt to evolving requirements.

The challenge

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The nation’s emergency call system is facing a crisis of its own – aging, obsolete infrastructures that weren’t designed to accommodate today’s wireless mobile society. Next-generation 9-1-1 (NG9-1-1) has emerged to adapt emergency communication services to the needs of a technology-dependent populace, providing the ability to transmit text, images, video and data to 9-1-1 public safety answering points (PSAPs).

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The solution

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St. Francois County became the first agency in the U.S. to implement Atos’ OpenScape First Response system and network services, including:

  • OpenScape Voice unified communications that allow 9-1-1 centers to receive and accept calls from different sources (voice, video, SMS, social networks, apps and instant messaging)
  • GEMMA (Global Emergency Management), Atos’ end-to-end emergency management solution
  • Managed network services connecting five PSAP locations across the St. Francois County 9-1-1 service area
  • Migration to a new facility
  • Up-to-date, ruggedized tablets and laptops for the field.

Business benefit

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OpenScape First Response accommodates changes in communications technologies to optimize resources, reduce response times and improve reliability. For St. Francois County, new capabilities include:

  • Support for current and future call-delivery standards
  • Ability for any dispatcher to log in and answer calls from any PSAP
  • Detailed location information on wireless callers
  • Single, integrated platform for NG9-1-1 workflow management
  • Turnkey network management yielding 50 percent savings over the legacy vendor.

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OpenScape First Response

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OpenScape First Response

Find out how to integrate voice, video, text and other communication media into your call routing network.

NG9-1-1 Whitepaper

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Building a Business Case for NG9-1-1

Learn how to challenge norms and change mindset to create an NGSmart ESInet domain.

Next Generation 9-1-1 Solutions

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NG9-1-1 Solution Summary

Next-generation 9-1-1: Transition from legacy enhanced to next-gen (NG) 9-1-1 systems with modern VoIP environments supported by a variety of cloud options.

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