Key Benefits

• Speed – IQ FSAS helps departments meet critical response requirements by shaving valuable seconds off response times in accordance with local policies and NFPA.
• Accuracy – IQ FSAS makes certain that everyone responding to a dispatch has the exact details of the incident regardless of their location.
• Accountability – IQ FSAS seamlessly integrates with RadioMobile’s in-vehicle mobile data computers (MDCs), so supervisors and responders know the exact location and status of emergency apparatus and personnel at all times.
• Flexibility – IQ FSAS is an end-user programmable system with customizable alerting. Lights and tones or voice messages can identify each apparatus required for the call.  Tones, voice messages, and colored lighting are used to identify only the exact emergency apparatus and personnel who need to respond.
• Interoperability – IQ FSAS interfaces with multiple CAD systems, CAD vendors and dispatch centers allowing you to alert other agency stations and vice versa. IQ FSAS optimizes connectivity over multiple networks and types including IP, LTE, LMR and satellite.

Learn how LA County Fire improved their response times and operations.

Features

The IQ FSAS is a fully automated, digital fire alerting system capable of interpreting and converting CAD dispatch data into Fire Station actions such as alert tones, lights, message displays, dispatch voice, etc.  Below is a list of key features.

Dispatch Operations

•  Alerts/triggers/actions/sequences/tones/timers can be configured locally

•  Simulation and test capability of alerts/actions

•  Command desk terminal provides instant detail for the call with rip-and-run printer showing first directional turns out of the station

•  Text-to-voice alerts and dispatch calls

•  Integrates to various CAD systems

•  Call history tracking and recording

Communications System

•  Standalone operation for primary or backup dispatching

•  Connectivity via multiple network types

•  Reliability and speed of data transmission improve overall agency performance

•  Open to integration with other systems and technologies

Station Equipment

•  Software-defined features and expandability

•  Configuration updates managed by centralized administration through network

•  User-defined tones/voices

•  Unlimited configuration sequences

Station Zoning

•  Additional display screens throughout the station showing dispatch and status

•  Hard-wired input/output (I/O) triggers

•  I/O Expansion capability

•  Turnout timer provides elapsed time to maintain/improve time-out-of-station
•   Integrates with mobile data software for seamless operation
•  Zone control alerts only the crew(s) and/or spaces needed for the call

•  Dorm room controller configures system to which crew is occupying that shift

•  Legacy end-of-life (EOL) system emulation and replacement

The IQ FSAS high-level system diagram below demonstrates a basic system configuration consisting of the dispatch center (911/CAD), the communication networks, one or more fire stations, and the IQ Station Control unit (SCU) and the corresponding peripherals.

IQ FSAS Basic System Configuration

IQ STATION CONTROL UNIT

The IQ Station Control unit (SCU) is the core of the IQ FSAS. The SCU utilizes IP-based or LMR-based digital communications, I/O for external control, PA for driving speakers, and a Command Desk terminal for user interface. An integrated UPS supplies backup power for up to 24 hours of operation. It is expandable and customizable to meet customer needs.

COMMAND DESK TERMINAL

Typically located in the supervisor’s office or command location, this Windows-based computer runs the application to execute user-defined sequences for each incident type or message. These sequences contain step-by-step commands to the IQ Station Control Unit as well as prerecorded voice messages for equipment status such connection status, main power status and other conditions, like an incoming phone call or paging.

MOBILE DATA COMPUTERS

IQ FSAS seamlessly integrates with RadioMobile’s ruggedized, in-vehicle mobile data computers, so supervisors and responders know the exact location and status of emergency apparatus and personnel at all times.