Microsoft Corp. released Windows 7 today with great fanfare. Iron Compass previewed a CTP (community technology preview) edition several months ago and was happy to learn On-Scene Xplorer installed and ran without any problems.
“We have installed the final release of Windows 7 Professional edition on an older Panasonic Toughbook CF-29 that technically does not meet the minimum spec for Windows 7,” said John Fix, president of Iron Compass. “We then installed On-Scene Xplorer 2.6 and it ran great. The only additional setup we did was reload the touch screen driver on the computer. Windows 7 has a nice clean look, and On-Scene Xplorer looks and runs great on the new operating system.”
By the end of November 2009, most Panasonic Toughbook models will be available with Microsoft Windows 7. For more information about On-Scene Xplorer and Windows 7, please contact us.
The Fire Bureau for the Lancaster City (Lancaster County, PA) selected On-Scene Xplorer for its mapping and pre-incident planning software needs. The career department is one of the busiest departments in Pennsylvania and serves a population of over 50,000.
“I spoke to one of the firefighters the other day and he told me the first day On-Scene Xplorer was in the engine they had a call in a somewhat confusing townhouse complex,” said John Fix, President of Iron Compass. “He punched in the address, saw the actual location and drove right there. He said it was a huge help since the call was at night.”
Iron Compass will also assist the department in unitizing the occupancy data from Firehouse in On-Scene Xplorer. “We have a conversion utility in place, but oftentimes when the data was entered, the addresses were not standardized. So we’ll help scrub the data and provide the conversion utility to the department.”
Congratulations to Greg Swanson from Bordentown, NJ. Greg attended one of our On-Scene Xplorer 2.6 Demonstration webinars in March and won a netbook computer.
Stay tuned as we plan to run more promotions like this.
Bernalillo County Fire & Rescue, providing services to the county surrounding Albuquerque, New Mexico, has selected On-Scene Xplorer for in-vehicle mapping and pre-incident planning.
“Iron Compass will be bundling our On-Scene Xplorer software with Panasonic Toughbook CF-30s and vehicle mounting hardware from First Mobile Technologies to provide a complete and ready to go system” said John Fix, President of Iron Compass. “Before placing the order, the department tested a demo units for a few weeks before selecting On-Scene Xplorer.”
The department serves a residential population of approximately 150,000 in an area that includes urban and suburban settings, as well as rugged mountains.
