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Ambulance service steps into satellite
The Royal Berkshire Ambulance NHS Trust, the first ambulance service in the UK to install Transportable Satellite Broadband VPN (TSBV) technology has achieved another first with the purchase of STEPS (Strategic Emergency Planning Solution) from Excelerate Technology.
STEPS allows personnel from all three emergency services the ability to immediately update emergency plans in pressurised situations, utilising wireless mesh technology to deliver a solution to multi-agency response for planning and procedure.
Commenting, James Amos, Emergency Planning Officer for Royal Berkshire Ambulance NHS Trust said, “It is vital for us, as an Ambulance Trust that covers such a wide and diverse area, that we equip ourselves with technology that will aid us in our emergency management and multi-agency response procedures. This is why we have again gone to Excelerate and its solution, STEPS. Although the product seemed perfect, we requested that the solution have a few more options, they went away and came back with an improved product that will benefit us for now and others that take the system from here on in.”
David Savage, Chairman and CEO for Excelerate Technology added, “One of the main attractions of the STEPS solution is its simplicity of use and its automatic update across the Excelerate wireless mesh solution in a multi-agency response.
“It will allow Royal Berkshire Ambulance NHS Trust's crew the ability to update its plans while keeping all involved parties informed. As soon as one plan of action is made, the information is relayed across the wireless mesh and updated on all the whiteboards in the relevant response units.”
