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Enabling seamless communications at incident sites by first responder public safety agencies is an urgent homeland security issue. Until sufficient spectrum is allocated and standardized mission-critical technology adopted nationwide, the TACNET® system enables an immediate, effective and cost-efficient solution to the first responder communications interoperability challenge.

TACNET® Overview
TACNET technology integrates stand-alone emergency vehicle electronics into a unified command and control system which dramatically improves functionality, ergonomics, efficiency and safety. The system features a centrally located touch screen, mobile computing platform, innovative control pod, head-up display, and voice activation.

The Interoperable Solution
A TACNET-equipped vehicle can become an effective communications center in the field which allows first responders with incompatible radios to communicate seamlessly.

If equipped with multiple radios, a TACNET mobile command vehicle can receive transmissions from multiple source bands – then digitally simulcast the signal across the other bands. This versatile cross-band repeater permits fire, police, EMS and other public safety agencies with disparate radio equipment to talk to each other easily through a TACNET relay vehicle.

The TACNET video display provides streamlined access to and management of the relay function, with visual indication of the current channel and group for each radio activated. TACNET can use dynamic signal mixing to permit monitoring different radios on different speakers in the vehicle. Priority can be given to transmissions on the primary channel automatically by muting the sound on the other vehicle speakers.

Communications interoperability through TACNET requires that agencies pre-plan designated coordination frequencies. When activated, TACNET enables all of the radios at an incident scene to appear to be tuned to the same channel, even though some may be analog, digital, trunked, not trunked, and/or operating on different frequencies.  When any participant transmits, all the other participants hear the message. TACNET thus offers an immediate, readily available, and cost-effective solution to the first responder communications interoperability dilemma prevailing in today’s critical security environment.

TACNET Technical Data Sheet [400 KB]