New dispatching room for Ghent’s Fire Department
After Antwerp, Ghent’s fire department will now also be equipped by Ferranti with a new modern Main Watch dispatching room for its new fire station in Roggestraat and in the outpost stations which are included in the solution.
Together with Intergraph, Ferranti will be in charge of the complete parameterization, integration and installation of the new ‘Dispatch Room’. The Ferranti standard CAD (Computer Aided Dispatch) solution will be adapted to a limited extent to the specific requirements of ’s fire department. For its interventions, the Ghent Fire Department will make use of the graphic dispatching functionality, in order to deploy resources and manpower on location as quickly as possible. Call-taking will continue to be a task of the Communication and Information Centre of East Flandres (CICOV), to which this dispatch room is connected.
On Friday 13 February, the project was launched with a kickoff meeting. In less than nine months, we will know whether Friday 13th is a lucky day for Digipolis and the Ghent Fire Department.