News & Events 2014
Italy: EENA case study document released.’Managing Change’: The example of Regione Lombardia, Italy’
EENA, 29th of October 2014
EENA Operations Committee has released its new publication “Managing Change: The example of Regione Lombardia, Italy”. “Case Study Documents”, a new type of EENA publications, are conceived as a useful tool for interested stakeholders who can benefit from gaining insight from existing practices.
Europe: A new contribution to EENA operations by Beta 80 Group
Beta 80 Group, 29th of October 2014
Beta 80 Group worked side by side with EENA (the European Emergency Number Association – 112) to the new version of the eCall* specifications document, coming from the HeERO project, which addresses the deployment of the pan-European in-vehicle emergency call service eCall based on the European Emergency number 112.
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USA: Beta 80 Group visits the Silicon Valley and its 9-1-1 system
Beta 80 Group, 29th of October 2014
During last week, a group of Beta 80 professionals toured 9-1-1 PSAPs in Silicon Valley and the San Francisco Bay Area.
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Brazil: iO has its 1st operating PSAP at the city of Limeira (São Paulo)
Beta 80 Group, 2nd of October 2014
Since yesterday, iO has its first operating PSAP in Brazil. The chosen city was Limeira, in the state of São Paulo, and its PSAP controls over 350.000 people, working under the common number 192. The PSAP is part of SAMU (Sistema de Atendimento Móvel de Urgência / Mobile Emergency Attendance Service), the Brazilian ambulance emergency service that is present in the majority of Brazilian cities.
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Italy: The platform for the social network analysis of emergencies is just arrived
Beta 80 Group, 2nd of October 2014
The social networks can be a useful tool to face quicker and more efficiently catastrophic events such as earthquakes or floods, in all stages of the life cycle (Preparedness, Response, Recovery and Mitigation). So “Torcia” is born (a platform for the cooperative management of emergencies).
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USA: iO and the The Fastest Dispatcher Contest at APCO 2014
Beta 80 Group, 1st of October 2014
From the 2nd till the 4th of August, Beta 80 Group took part as a first time exhibitor at the APCO 2014 – 80th Annual Conference & Expo. Among another 265 exhibitors on the Public Safety field, Beta 80 Group had the opportunity to show its iO CAD system to the American market, at the Ernest N. Morial Convention Center, in New Orleans, Louisiana.
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Brazil: Beta 80 is participating on the Hospitalar fair in São Paulo
Beta 80 do Brasil, 20th of May 2014
Beta 80 do Brasil is taking part, for the first time, of the Hospitalar fair. The main goal is very clear: to present to the Brazilian market a highly innovative, configurable and integrated software for the public safety sector, connected to best technologies available in the market.
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Europe: Beta 80 Group presents its eCall system
Beta 80 Group, 15th of April 2014
In the European Union, the emergency services never stop. Only on the roads alone, there are more than 70 fatal incidents per day, which represents 25.000 deaths every year in Europe. In order to save more lives, the EU wants to equip every car with an automatic emergency call system, called eCall.