Building An Interoperable Industry Platform For Public Safety, Security And Well-Being

Today's world is less secure. Municipal, governmental, industrial and airport leaders are expected to provide for enhanced security and well-being. Preparedness for natural and man-made disasters is a key concern for first responders. Cross-agency collaboration and communications are vital. To meet the emerging mission-critical needs of our customers, we are applying advanced technology such as interoperable communications software and broadband wireless to our core solutions. These "smart" technologies deliver the enhanced functionality, intelligence and interoperability that today's complex events demand. Federal Signal's suite of products and integrated solutions help protect people, property and the environment every day around the world.

Getting different applications and technologies to work together has emerged as a critical competency for ensuring Quality of Service (QoS) and for achieving business and organizational efficiencies. In this environment, many leading organizations now rank interoperability to be as important as security and reliability for managing the health of their information technology systems. To address this issue, Federal Signal is working with industry leaders to advance a new generation of software and Web-services based solutions that are interoperable at the core, run on the Internet Protocol (IP) and leverage Extensible Mark-up Languages (XML). By leveraging IP-based concepts and cross organization use of Service Oriented Architectures (SOA), Federal Signal helps improve interoperability within and across organizations.