The
integration CORTEX offers to other systems, such as STORM, reduces incident response
times and ensures accurate information is available to officers more quickly and
efficiently by automatically providing incident details and coordinates and by
allowing CORTEX communications to be controlled remotely by other systems. APD
also announced new Satellite Navigation integration for its INCA, GPS-enabled
vehicle tracking and telematics unit. The new offering provides emergency service
customers the combination of INCA and a Garmin sat nav in a vehicle installation
for powerful and cost effective incident dispatch. New functionality permits officers
to: · Store details of low priority incidents in the in-vehicle Garmin
unit, increasing officer productivity · Select an incident/visit
from the list and initiate navigation to the location · Receive information
on high priority incidents on the Garmin unit with pre-emptive automatic initiation
of navigation to the incident “Our innovative technologies are changing
the way policing is carried out across the world. Until now, police officers have
had to rely on bulky, heavy devices which use a combination of technologies to
carry out document checks; such as laptop computers and passport reading devices.
The Mobile ID Unit changes everything. The CORTEX and INCA sat nav will help improve
the efficiency of emergency services operators and front line police,” said
Steve Denison, Managing Director of APD Communications. Additional information
on the Mobile ID Unit: Functionality such as an iris scanner can be added
to the Mobile ID Unit as required for the validation of biometric data held on
travel documents. The device also has a fingerprint reader, an RFID scanner for
e-passports, a smartcard (contact and contactless) reader for ID cards a 3.2 Megapixel
digital camera and a magnetic strip reader for credit cards. To prevent mis-scans
the device has a motorised roller that pulls items such as passports through the
scanning device. Additional information on each product can be found: ·
Mobile ID Unit document reader · CORTEX integrated Communications
Control System · INCA vehicle location mapping system | 
