HYPOTHESES

Hypothesis 1 – Emergency services make extensive use of wireless communication products to communicate messages to their mobile work force.
Hypothesis 2 – There is a significant need to communicate emergency information across departments, potentially city wide, statewide, and in some cases nationally.
Hypothesis 3- Although wireless technology is in use, the latest advancements in two-way wireless technology and other advanced services, which could provide the ability of acknowledging that devices received messages, GPS, has not been implemented.
Hypothesis 4 – Due to the lack of adoption of this technology, most emergency service organizations are unable to confirm that their field force personnel have actually received critical messages ands are unable to identify the location of field staff.
Hypothesis 5 – Speed of messaging and reliability will continue to be a major concern now and moving forward for any form of mobile emergency messaging solution.
Hypothesis 6 – Traditional reasons for not adopting new wireless technology by emergency services (i.e. price, coverage issues, etc.) will continue to be prevalent.