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HONEYWELL MAKES STRATEGIC INVESTMENT IN RAPIDSOS, FURTHERING PUBLIC SAFETY COMMUNICATIONS CAPABILITIES
- Reinforces Honeywell's efforts to modernize the public safety communications infrastructure - Enables integration of buildings' fire systems with emergency
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[{"type":"text","content":"- Reinforces Honeywell's efforts to modernize the public safety communications infrastructure\n - Enables integration of buildings' fire systems with emergency response data platform to provide intelligent, incident-specific information for faster, more accurate emergency responses\n\n\nATLANTA and NEW YORK, Jan. 26, 2022 /PRNewswire/ -- Honeywell (Nasdaq: HON) today announced a strategic investment in RapidSOS, as well as technology integrations between the two companies that will further modernize and digitize the public safety communications process. RapidSOS is the emergency response data platform used by more than 5,200 emergency communications centers (ECCs) worldwide.\nHoneywell further expands public safety communications portfolio to enable faster, more accurate emergency responses The existing communications infrastructure between buildings, alarm monitoring stations, emergency centers and fire stations often uses legacy, manual technology, which slows response times and affects the accuracy of transmitted information.\nThrough the strategic investment and technology integrations, the Honeywell Connected Life Safety System (CLSS) will link to the RapidSOS emergency response data platform to provide faster, more accurate communications with emergency centers (i.e., 911 agencies). When combined with Honeywell's solutions, RapidSOS technology will securely transmit detailed data about the emergency, such as the type of hazard, severity, and location within the impacted building to emergency response centers.\n\"Time matters in an emergency. If you add up the time that regulations allow for each step in the current emergency communications process, it takes 590 seconds – or nearly 10 minutes – from the time a fire is first detected to when first responders arrive at a building. We're trying to improve communications processes to cut that time in half,\" said Jurgen van Goethem, president of Commercial Fire and Security for Honeywell Building Technologies. \"This investment in RapidSOS helps to further our efforts to improve both the quality of information shared and the time it takes for first responders to arrive at an emergency, potentially saving more lives. RapidSOS helps to deliver better information to emergency centers while our recent acquisition of US Digital Designs improves communication from the emergency cente...