First Responders

Support Communication to First Responders

The self-sustained communication has been designed in such a way as to help emergency responders maintain communication among themselves and with the outside. In the case of a service outage in commercial mobile carriers, dedicated mobile units with programmable SIM cards will receive LTE signals transmitted by the established private LTE network within the campus premises. Such dedicated mobile units have been assigned to the Carbondale Police and Fire Departments. Additionally, a dedicated device has also been provided to the SIUC Chancellor's office.

This project has been funded by the Illinois Environmental Protection Agency and the US Department of Energy (Office of Energy Efficiency and Renewable Energy)