Harris Corporation will demonstrate advanced systems for restoring first responder communication links as part of the Great Southern California ShakeOut.

 

Most of the clients of the Harris Corporation are based in the military, as the solutions provided by the company are suitable for military communications users. But recently, the company has been trying to expand and including non-military communications users in its user base.

 

To cater to its non-military users, the company has Unity, a family of multiband software-defined radios. These radios will provide direct, full-spectrum interoperability to the hands of the user and assist federal, state and local public safety agencies to communicate more effectively.

 

The Great Southern California ShakeOut is the biggest earthquake preparedness drill ever in the United States. With this exercise, the effects of a magnitude 7.8 earthquake will be measured. This program, which has more than five million registered participants, will also measure San Andreas Fault.

 

George Helm, vice president and general manager, Government and Public Safety business unit, Harris RF Communications, said “Our product portfolio provides those critical communication links anytime, anywhere, by eliminating interoperability issues that have previously plagued first responders. Our radios also provide advanced capabilities such as the delivery of video assessments back to command posts and emergency voice and data communications over satellite links.”

 

Harris Corporation believes that the company’s advanced radio products can tackle the special problems and specialized needs of public safety agencies. The first responders should always be able to establish communications with other as their duty is to save lives. The company believes that the ShakeOut drill will demonstrate how the company’s solutions can provide the necessary communications to seal with emergency situations.

 

One such product, the Unity XG-100 from Harris focuses on portable land mobile radio frequency bands in a single radio. The product is approximately the same size as currently fielded, single-band radios and is compliant with APCO Project 25 technical standards.

 

When these public agencies join hands with Harris Corporation, apart from advanced systems for restoring first responder communication links, they can also get a simplified GUI for geospatial search, tracking and retrieval. In October, the company released GeoSTAR, a commercial off-the-shelf, Web-based graphical user interface (GUI).