The Department of Homeland Security mandated Long Beach Airport Triennial Disaster Exercise, held at Long Beach Airport on April 22, involved hundreds of people representing dozens of agencies. The exercise presented daunting challenges in communications and coordination. PacketHop was up to the task.
Because agencies rely on propriety voice communications systems that often don’t work with other agencies' systems, coordination and communications at the scene of an incident is difficult and communications break downs can lead to catastrophic results. PacketHop provided the fire, police, government and military agencies responding to this simulated terrorist attack with:
- The ability to review emergency operation and communications plans and evaluate airport and emergency service organizations' capabilities
- Situational awareness of agencies location and actions
- The ability to instantly share information using
- Real time multicast video
- GPS-enabled resource location tracking
- white-boarding
- multimedia instant messaging
SWAT teams used PacketHop’s mobile mesh-enabled applications to position patrols cars with video cameras around the airport hangar where suspected terrorists were staging a biochemical weapon. PacketHop’s multi-cast video application wirelessly streamed the video captured by the patrol cars’ and mobile cameras to the police department’s central command center where the SWAT team safely determined the hangar’s optimal point of entry. One of the terrorists, attempting to evade arrest, then commandeered a fuel truck and rammed it into a jetliner, injuring more than 100 passengers on board. PacketHop enabled the fire departments and EMS teams to quickly coordinate a unified response – extinguishing the burning fuselage and coordinating resources to provide emergency aid to injured passengers.
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