Know What You’re Up Against
Emergency responder crews using the On-Scene Xplorer mapping and pre-incident planning system know what they are up against before arriving on scene. Easy to read mapping displays streets, building foot prints, fire hydrants, and more. Map features are intelligently displayed as you zoom in and out. Plus, with On-Scene Xplorer’s Global Position System (GPS) capabilities you can locate the closest fire hydrant even at night and in poor weather.
Emergency crews know what to expect when they arrive on scene with a simple tap on the screen. Store comprehensive pre-incident planning data about all aspects of a facility for quick retrieval. “See” inside a building with easy to read floor plans.
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The Willow Street Fire Company in Willow Street, PA was awarded a US Department of Homeland Security AFG (Assistance to Fire Fighers Grant) grant to install On-Scene Xplorer in their apparatus.
“Willow Street has one of the largest retirement communities in Pennsylvania and is also experiencing residential and commercial growth. These pressures require the department have more information when they respond to calls”, said John Fix, president of Iron Compass. “The area outside of Willow Street is very rural, and sadly every year there are barn fires. OSX will be a big help navigating to those mutual aid calls.”
The installation will include Panasonic Toughbook-30 fully rugged computers mounted in their two engines, truck, rescue, and chief’s vehicles. Willow Street also plans to have Iron Compass pre-plan the large multi-building, multi-location retirement community.
Visit the company’s web site by clicking here.
North Middleton Township Fire Company in Carisle, PA installs On-Scene Xplorer in their front line pieces. The company’s installation of On-Scene Xplorer includes three Panasonic Toughbook CF-19s in the apparatus and a Panasonic Toughbook CF-30 in the command vehicle. All installs will make use of external GPS receivers mounted on the roof of the vehicles.
The entire project was paid for through the company’s PA Relief association.
View the North Middleton Fire Company’s web site by clicking here.
Hello and welcome to our new web site. We wanted to create an experience that would provide you with easier access to On-Scene Xplorer and related product information. And, since this site is very easy to manage, we plan to add a lot more content including videos and a training section too.
Of course, if you have any questions, just go to the Contact page and drop us a note. Again, welcome to our new web site, and thank you for visiting.
When you need critical information, can you count on internet supplied content to a mobile computer? We’re not so sure. And supporting our position is an article in the New York Times titled “Devices Enforce Silence of Cellphone, Illegally”. That is why OSX mapping and pre-planning content is loaded locally on every mobile computer.
To read the article, click here.
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Deepwater Fire Department and Pennsville Fire & Rescue Co #1, both within Pennsville Township in Salem County, New Jersey installed On-Scene Xplorer systems in their fire apparatus. The installed systems included Toughbook computers from Panasonic, external GPS receivers, mounting hardware and power supply wiring in the cabs of engine, ladder truck, and command vehicles.
On-Scene Xplorer will enhance the operations of the departments by giving the crews the ability to easily find dispatched locations with updated spatial data over the traditional and outdated papers maps that were used in the cabs. Iron Compass will enhance the system by providing quarterly mapping database updates and by extracting fire hydrant locations from engineering CAD drawings to be included in the On-Scene Xplorer system.
The two departments provide emergency response for a first due area over 24 square miles with a population of approximately 15,000.
Iron Compass release On-Scene Xplorer version 2.5 today The version 2.5 includes many enhancements and upgrades. “We want to thank those departments that have provided important feedback to us about how they use OSX and what enhancements they would like to see,” said John Fix, President of Iron Compass. “We worked hard to make sure the new and enhanced features improve the work of emergency responders and are not just ‘gee wiz’ add-ons. Plus, new features have to be easy to use and understand so the training curve is the absolute minimum.”
New installations being shipped will include the new version 2.5. All existing customers are being provided access to the new version as an upgrade as well.
