Personnel Accountability Feature

(Learning and Programming Radio Features)

Personnel Accountability takes Tactical Public Safety (TPS) to the next level, greatly improving situational awareness and resource management of Conventional communications at the scene of an incident. Via an RF modem connected to a laptop containing an Incident Command Terminal (ICT) application, the Incident Commander is able to manage and transmit real-time information from a single location, constantly accounting for all personnel and resources present at a particular incident scene. For example, during a residential structure fire, the Incident Commander can assign a unique Personnel Accountability Sector ID to each radio channel that can then be assigned to an Alias in the ICT application, such as 'Roof' for Sector 1, and 'Interior' for Sector 2; firefighters can then be grouped and accounted-for as part of the 'Interior Sector’, or as part of the 'Roof Sector’ at the scene. The ICT application also allows individual radio's to be polled to determine if they are still on line (see Respond to Polls), and can also issue evacuation notifications, and keep track of each radio that responds via the radio-user acknowledging through PTT (see Evacuation Acknowledgement). Personnel Accountability Signaling (see Incident Signaling Type) uses Packet Data Units (PDUs) which may contain, in addition to the radio ID, a Sector ID, the radio’s battery level, confirmed responses, registration information, and evacuation commands and acknowledgements. Personnel Accountability Accountability may also benefit from enabling certain TPS-related features (see Tactical Public Safety UI Enable).