Radio Consoles
The radio consoles are
provided by Motorola. The console screens are touch screen allowing the
telecommunicator to touch an image on the screen in order to transmit a
message to field units.
The consoles are computer based and
integrated with equipment in another part of the building allowing
connectivity with the radio transmitters off-site at radio antenna
towers at various locations.
Telephones
The telephone system used by the communications center is Positron
VIPER. Once again the telephones are merely computer based equipment
with touch screen technology allowing the telecommunicator to answer any
of the 6 9-1-1 lines or 9 administrative lines in the center.
The various telephone lines answered in the communications center are as follows:
- Communications 1
- Fire/EMS administrative alarm 1
- Police Administrative 4
- Sanford 1
- Shearon Harris Emergency 1
- Sanford lies within the 10-mile EPZ of Shearon Harris Nuclear Power Plant in Wake County.
- TTY/TDD 1
- Wireless 9-1-1 2
- Wireline 9-1-1 4