Capita and MAC Ltd delivering The Internet of Public Safety Things

Capita Secure Solutions and Services (Capita) and Multiple Access Communications Limited (MAC Ltd) are collaborating to bring new solutions to the public safety community based around Capita’s ControlWorks® public safety solution and MAC Ltd’s Internet of Things (IoT) expertise and wireless sensor solutions. Capita will be exhibiting examples of the results of this collaboration next month at the Home Office Security and Policing Event (5 - 7 March 2019) and the British APCO Annual Conference and Exhibition (12 - 13 March 2019). To illustrate the varied capabilities of this integration, visitors to Capita’s exhibition stands will be able to experience the remote monitoring of automated external defibrillators (AEDs), which are becoming commonplace throughout our communities, and access/inspection chamber monitoring to prevent tampering and theft.

Low cost, low power wireless sensor devices, from MAC Ltd, are used to detect a range of different events (eg, access chamber cover opened, AED removed from cabinet) and these are reported and recorded as incidents within Capita’s ControlWorks®. This allows public safety organisations to deal with such incidents using their familiar software solutions and operating procedures, rather than having to use a new, dedicated monitoring system, with the associated costs in deployment and training.

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